CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE SPINE LITERATURE: THE FUNDAMENTALS 20 June 2018 FINAL PROGRAMME

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1 CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE SPINE LITERATURE: THE FUNDAMENTALS 20 June 2018 FINAL PROGRAMME

2 QUICK FACTS WHEN: 20 JUNE 2018 WHERE: Strasbourg, France IRCAD/EITS 1 Place de l Hôpital Strasbourg, France MAXIMUM ATTENDEES: 30 delegates REGISTRATION FEE: EUROSPINE Member: 300 Non-member: 400 CME CREDITS: 5 European CME credits (ECMECs) LANGUAGE: English DRESS: Casual IMPORTANT NOTE: Attendance at every session is mandatory. This will be a paperless course and not printed programme will be provided. A wireless Internet device (mobile phone/ipad/computer) will be necessary to access on-line resources during the course and for completing the course evaluation. Please bring one with you. The course evaluation is mandatory to obtain the CME certificate. IMPORTANT NOTE Attendance throughout the whole course is mandatory PURPOSE World class faculty will teach participants the necessary skills to critically appraise the quality of the spine literature which is very relevant to engage in an evidence-based practice. STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE This course will include three one-hour lectures and one three-hour workshop. The lectures will include presentations where study designs, biases and critical appraisal methods will be discussed. The workshop will include a 1.5 hours group session where a published study will be critically appraised under the guidance of a faculty member. 2

3 The course will conclude with a structured group discussion about the validity of the reviewed paper. 3

4 C O R E F A C U L T Y COURSE CHAIR: Rachid Salmi MD PhD louis-rachid.salmi@u-bordeaux.fr Directeur/Head, ISPED/Bordeaux School of Public Health INSERM U-1219, Centre de Recherche Bordeaux Population Health PU-PH, Service d information médicale, CHU de Bordeaux Institut de Santé Publique, d Epidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED) Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Pierre Côté DC, PhD pierre.cote@uoit.ca Canada Research Chair in Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences Director, UOIT-CMCC Centre for the Study of Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Margareta Nordin, Dr. Med, Sci. dmn2@nyu.edu Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Environmental Medicine New York University, New York, NY, USA 4

5 SCHEDULE The course will take place from 09:00 to 16:30 including the practical workshop. COURSE OBJECTIVES This course will provide participants with the necessary skills to critically appraise the quality of the spine literature. Specifically, the course will introduce basic study designs and discuss the main threats to the validity of clinical studies. Learning methods include didactic lectures and a workshop. Recently published papers will be used in the workshop. The topics covered in the course include: randomized clinical trails, cohorts studies, case-series, case study, selection bias, measurement bias and confounding. Participants will learn to use a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of randomized control trials and cohort studies. LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon successful completion of this course the participant will be able to: Identify the study design used in a published article. Define selection bias, measurement bias and confounding. Critically appraise a published paper using a standardized critical appraisal tool and identify the main threats to its validity. Discuss the validity of a published paper. 5

6 PRE-LEARNING: RECOMMENDED READING It is recommended that participants read the following prior to the course Textbook in French: Salmi R. Lecture critique et communication médicale scientifique. Comment lire, présenter, rédiger et publier une étude clinique ou épidémiologique. 3ème édition. Elsevier Masson SAS ; Lecture 1: Introduction to critical appraisal o McCulloch, Peter, et al. "No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations." The Lancet (2009): o In French : Prof. Salmi s textbook Chapters 2, Lecture 2: Randomized controlled trial o Moher D, Hopewell S, Schulz KF, et al. CONSORT 2010 explanation and elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. BMJ. 2010; 340:c869. o 11 questions to help you make sense of a trial. Downloaded from Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. Oxford UK. o PEDro Scale: Physiotherapy Evidence Database o In French : Prof. Salmi s textbook Chapters Lecture 3: Cohort study o von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M, Pocock SJ, Gøtzsche PC, Vandenbroucke JP, et al. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147: o Hemingway H, Croft P, Perel P, Hayden JA, Abrams K, Timmis A, et al. Prognosis research strategy (PROGRESS) 1: A framework for researching clinical outcomes. BMJ. 2013;345:e5595. o 12 questions to help you make sense of cohort study. Downloaded from Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. Oxford UK. o Critical appraisal of prognostic studies. Downloaded from Centre of Evidence- Based Medicine. Oxford UK. o In French : Prof. Salmi s textbook Chapters 40, 52, 55 and 56 All lectures - Threats to the validity of a clinical study In French : Prof. Salmi s textbook Chapters 33, 35, 39 6

7 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, MODULE 1 WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 2018 COURSE ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY TIME TOPIC FACULTY 08:30-09:00 Course Registration & Welcome Coffee SESSION 1: Course Introduction (R. Salmi) 09:00-09:10 Welcome and Introduction All faculty 09:10-10:10 Introduction to critical appraisal Rachid Salmi Coffee Break 30 min SESSION 2: Randomized Control Trials and Cohort Studies 10:30-11:30 Randomized controlled trials (M. Nordin) Margareta Nordin 11:30-12:30 Cohort Studies (P. Côté) Pierre Coté Lunch 60 min SESSION 3: Workshop part 1 13:30-15:00 Workshop (part 1): Critical Appraisal of a All randomized controlled trial (all) Coffee Break 30 min SESSION 4: Workshop part 2 15:20-16:20 Workshop (part 2): Group discussion on All the validity of the randomized controlled trial (all) 16:20-16:30 Closinig remarks All 16:30-16:45 Course evaluation All participants (Mandatory for all participants) 16:45 END OF MODULE 7

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11 CONTACTS EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe Seefeldstrasse Uster Switzerland Follow us on: facebook.com/eurospine twitter.com/eurospinesoc youtube.com/eurospine COURSE ORGANISATION Julie-Lyn Noël MD MBA Director of Education and Research E: T: Sandy Sutter Manager of Education and Research EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe E : sutter@eurospine.org M : SCIENTIFIC CONTENT Prof. Bernhard Meyer Chairman, Education Committee of EUROSPINE 11

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