Workshop: Systematic Reviews

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Date/Time:Friday, 30 Jun 2017 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Location:2226 Veterinary Medicine
Cost:$1,000 ($1,200 after April 15)
URL:http://register.extension.iastate.edu/systematic
Phone:800-262-0015
Channel:College of Veterinary Medicine
Categories:Conferences
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"Meta-Analysis in Systematic Reviews For Food and Feed Related Topics." A comprehensive introduction to meta-analysis for systematic reviews. Participants will use software to conduct pairwise meta-analysis and meta-regression.

Topics
- The role of meta-analysis in systematic reviews
- The practicalities of data extraction for meta-analysis
- How to explore heterogeneity in meta-analysis
- Summarizing effects sizes with meta-analysis
- Interpreting the results of meta-analyses
- Software for meta-analysis--REVMAN and R
- R packages for meta-analysis

Instructors
Jan Sargeant is the Director for the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses at the University of Guelph, and a Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College. Dr. Sargeant is a veterinarian and an epidemiologist.

Dr. Annette O'Connor is a veterinary epidemiologist who works in the area of research synthesis related to food production, public health, food safety and uses of animals.