CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE SPINE LITERATURE: THE FUNDAMENTALS FINAL PROGRAMME
QUICK FACTS WHEN: January 11, 2018 WHERE: Institut Franco-Européen de Chiropraxie (IFEC), 72 chemin de la Flambère, 31300 Toulouse, France MAXIMUM ATTENDEES: 30 participants, priority will be given to EUROSPINE members REGISTRATION FEE: EUR 100 for EUROSPINE/IFEC Members, EUR 120 for Non-Members CME CREDITS: 5 CME credits LANGUAGE: English CORE FACULTY L. Rachid Salmi MD PhD (Course Director) Pierre Côté PhD Margareta Nordin Dr. Med. Sci. LOCAL HOST Olivier Lanlo IMPORTANT NOTE Attendance throughout the whole course is mandatory PURPOSE In collaboration with IFEC (Institut Franco-Européen de Chiropraxie), 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 hour group session where a published study will be critically appraised under the guidance of a faculty member. The course will conclude with a structured group discussion about the validity of the reviewed paper. 2
COURSE DIRECTOR: 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 C O R E F A C U L T Y 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 LOCAL HOST: Olivier Lanlo olanlo@ifec.net Institut Franco-Européen de Chiropraxie / Paris 24 bd Paul Vaillant-Couturier 94200 Ivry-Sur-Seine 3
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. 4
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 ; 2012. Lecture 1: Introduction to critical appraisal o McCulloch, Peter, et al. "No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations." The Lancet 374.9695 (2009): 1105-1112. o In French : Prof. Salmi s textbook Chapters 2, 29-32 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. www.casp-uk.net o PEDro Scale: Physiotherapy Evidence Database http://www.pedro.org.au/english/downloads/pedro-scale/ o In French : Prof. Salmi s textbook Chapters 49-51 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;147:573-7. 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. www.casp-uk.net o Critical appraisal of prognostic studies. Downloaded from Centre of Evidence- Based Medicine. Oxford UK. www.cebm.net 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 5
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME Time January 11, 2018 Course Introduction (R. Salmi) 09h00-09h10 09h10-10h10 10h10-10h30 10h30-11h30 11h30-12h30 12h30-13h30 13h30-15h00 15h00-15h20 15h20-16h20 16h20-16h30 Welcome and Introduction (O. Lanlo and Faculty) Introduction to critical appraisal (R. Salmi) Coffee Break Randomized controlled trials (M. Nordin) Cohort Studies (P. Côté) Lunch Workshop (part 1): Critical Appraisal of a randomized controlled trial (all) Coffee Break Workshop (part 2): Group discussion on the validity of the randomized controlled trial (all) Closing remarks (all) 6
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CONTACTS EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe Seefeldstrasse 16 8610 Uster Switzerland www.eurospine.org www.eurospinemeeting.com Follow us on: www.eurospinemeeting.org facebook.com/eurospine twitter.com/eurospinesoc youtube.com/eurospine COURSE ORGANISATION Julie-Lyn Noël MD MBA Director of Education and Research E: noel@eurospine.org T: +41 76 417 90 03 Sandy Sutter Manager of Education and Research EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe E : sutter@eurospine.org M :+41 79 316 92 78 SCIENTIFIC CONTENT Björn Rydevik MD PhD Chair, Research Council of EUROSPINE Rachid Salmi MD PhD Course Director, Task Force Research of EUROSPINE 10