Jan 25 - Introduction to Systematic Review Meta-analysis
Ended 30 May 2025
4 credits
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Full course description
Description
To introduce students to the basic concepts and methods of conducting a systematic review, including the rationale, steps, and principles of a systematic review, as well as the impacts on decision-making.
Instructors
Dr. Anni @ Nik Ani Afiqah binti Hj Mohamad Tuah
Format
Online forums will be used to support the scaffolding of knowledge, understanding and abilities. The teaching style will include video conferencing, discussion forums and activity based learning techniques. The focus of the teaching style will be determined through learning diagnostics, undertaken by students, which will identify learning style needs. A cooperative learning framework is used as a means of supporting equity for both teaching and learning styles.
Video Overview
What you get
- Introduction to a systematic review
- Framing questions for a review
- Search methods and databases for a systematic review
- Critical appraisal of the literature
- Quality assessment of the evidence in reviews
- Key biases, designs, and generic quality items in reviews
- Summarising the evidence in reviews
- Analysis of data for a systematic review (Meta-analysis)
- Interpreting the findings in reviews
- A systematic review of protocol