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Training the next generation of evidence synthesis consumers and producers

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How to build a question
- A question to match your search
- What makes a good question?
- Meet PICO(D)
Population
- Population basics
- Be specific
- Define your condition
- Diagnosis
- Things to consider
Intervention + comparator
- Seek comparisons, not the ideal
- Intervention vs. comparator
- What are you comparing?
- Details
Outcomes
- Outcomes
- Add outcomes to your question
- Types of outcomes
- How are you measuring your outcomes?
- Kidney failure outcomes
- Your question so far
Design
- Design
- The best ingredients for your systematic review
- Hierarchy of evidence pyramid
- Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
- Cohort studies
- Case-control studies
- Further down the pyramid
- Pick your study designs
- Non-comparative studies
- Design details
- Finish line
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