TITLE: The development of a risk of bias tool for network meta-analysis
SPEAKER: Dr. Carole Lunny, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Knowledge Synthesis Team, at Unity Health, University of Toronto, ON.
About the topic: In this presentation, Dr. Lunny will describe tools that are currently used to assess the quality and risk of bias in systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis, and justify why a new risk of bias tool for NMAs is needed. She will also describe the way to choose a quality assessment tool based on rigorous methodology and describe proposed methods for the development of a risk of bias tool for NMAs. Scroll down to read the abstract for this presentation.
About the speaker: Dr. Carole Lunny is a postdoc research methodologist with the Knowledge Synthesis Team, at Unity Health, University of Toronto, and a Methodology Editor with the Cochrane Hypertension Review Group, the Therapeutics Initiative at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in methods for research synthesis and critical appraisal of systematic reviews with pairwise and network meta-analysis, overviews of reviews, randomised controlled trials, and observational studies (cohort, case control). Her current research focuses on the development of a risk of bias tool for network meta-analyses, methods issues in clinical practice guidelines and ‘overviews of reviews’. Her list of publications can be found at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YaJAbZsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao She completed her PhD training as an epidemiologist in 2018 with Cochrane Australia at Monash University and recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Therapeutics Initiative (Cochrane Hypertension Group) at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the several methods groups at Cochrane, academic board advisor for Researchsquare.com, and academic editor for PeerJ.
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