GRADE Workshop (In-Person)

GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) is used by over 100 international organisations such as WHO, Cochrane, American Society of Haematology and others to produce rigorous and transparent clinical practice guidelines and other healthcare recommendations.

GRADE is a standardised and transparent approach to assessing the certainty of evidence and the strength of healthcare recommendations. The approach provides a manageable system that integrates all important aspects. The GRADE approach was developed by the multidisciplinary GRADE working group. More information on GRADE can be found here.

This two-day workshop guides participants through the comprehensive GRADE methodology, from defining PICO questions and outcomes to creating Summary of Findings tables using GRADEpro GDT software. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will learn how to assess evidence certainty by evaluating key domains, including methodological limitations, inconsistency, indirectness, imprecision, and publication bias. The workshop also covers evidence upgrading criteria and provides practical experience in creating Summary of Findings tables for systematic reviews of healthcare interventions.

In this course participants will be enabled to:

• Understand the basic principles of the GRADE approach and be able to comprehend the individual steps in the assessment of the evidence and their impact on the strength of the recommendation

• Be able to create an evidence profile for a therapeutic intervention based on a systematic review

• Have a basic understanding of the GRADE Software

Knowledge in conducting and/or using systematic reviews as well as the basic principles of evidence-based healthcare, and the critical appraisal of research studies, especially RCTs

The workshop will consist of a mixture of presentations and exercises.

Prof. Declan Devane (Director of Evidence Synthesis Ireland & Cochrane Ireland, Professor of Health Research Methodology, University of Galway)

Dr K.M. Saif-Ur-Rahman (Senior Research Methodologist / Research Fellow, Evidence Synthesis Ireland)

Dr Nuala Livingstone (Senior Quality Insurance Editor, Cochrane)

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