Continuing Education Event – March 30, 2023 : Selecting and Using Data Extraction Tools for Systematic Reviews

by | 16 February 2023
0 comment

The Executive team is excited to invite you to another live session of an MLA CE Webinar. Based off your feedback from the HLABC 2022-2023 Membership Survey, most respondents desire live online CE events on topics including systematic and scoping reviews. To accommodate these preferences, HLABC will pay for current members to attend the upcoming MLA CE Webinar, Selecting and Using Data Extraction Tools for Systematic Reviews. Abbreviated details on this session can be found below, and for full event information including presenter bio, please click the event title link above.

If you cannot make it to the live session and wish to view the recording of the webinar and receive CE credit, please register below.

Register here!

By registering, HLABC will provide you with a unique access code

to view the live webinar or the recorded webinar and claim MLA CE credit.

Please register no later than Friday, March 15, 2023.

Selecting and Using Data Extraction Tools for Systematic Reviews
Date of Live Event: March 30, 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m., central time (11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., pacific time). Recording available soon after.

You’ll learn what data extraction tools are and how they work. You’ll explore ways to identify tools using the SR Toolbox, a free online catalog of systematic review tools. You’ll see how to classify tools based on their features and capabilities and gain an overview of the pluses and minuses of commonly used tools (e.g., EPPI Reviewer, Covidence, PICO Portal, as well as Word and Excel, and, of course, SRDR+). Data extraction tool development and refinement is ongoing, and if you understand how to use and evaluate tools, you’ll be able to monitor the literature and use the SR Toolbox to find new tools.

You’ll also learn what to consider when comparing and choosing a tool, incorporating team preferences, the review topic, and team needs. During the session, you’ll work through exercises to define a team’s needs based on cost, usability, product support, and what a team wants from a tool (e.g., flexibility or a prescribed approach, data extraction only or integration with literature identification and meta-analysis).

You’ll end the webinar with a group exercise in SRDR+ that includes designing a simple data extraction form and extracting a single randomized controlled trial into that form.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

·         Find data extraction tools using the SR Toolbox

·         Describe the structure of data extraction tools and list common tool limitations

·         Advise teams on the selection of a data extraction tools

·         Design an extraction form

·         Perform a basic extraction in SRDR+

Do you have questions or comments, please send them to hlabcexec@gmail.com. 

SAVE THE DATE! – Nov. 1, 2022 – Continuing Education Event: “Guiding Teams through Risk of Bias Tools in Systematic Reviews”

by | 20 October 2022
0 comment

Guiding Teams through Risk of Bias Tools in Systematic Reviews

Live! Wednesday, November 1st, 2022 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PST – Sign Up here!

About the MLA Webinar

Librarians typically make their greatest contribution to systematic reviews in the comprehensive search part of the review process. Hendren and Ledbetter, who together have contributed to over 80 reviews, will show you how you can add another skill to your review skillset: Providing guidance to teams and researchers on selecting and utilizing a risk of bias tool.

Conducting a risk of bias assessment to identify design and other flaws and limitations in studies is an important step in the review process, one filled with challenges for new and experienced teams. In this webinar, you’ll get an overview of what risk of bias is, how assessing risk of bias differs from critical appraisal, and why identifying bias is so important to the review process. You’ll receive advice and guidance on supporting review teams through the risk of bias phase of the review process and learn the points in the process where you can discuss the risk of bias tools with teams.

Hendren and Ledbetter will share industry standard methodological guidelines from Cochrane and other sources, demonstrate the Quality Assessment and Risk of Bias Tool Repository, and show you common features among risk of bias tools. You’ll have an opportunity to practice locating tools and will learn of other repositories, websites, and guides you can use when advising teams.

You’ll leave with skills and knowledge that will help researchers follow best practices in choosing and using risk of bias tools and help you develop new review methodology skills and advance in your career.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the difference between risk of bias (RoB) assessment and critical appraisal
  • Advise systematic review teams on methodologies for assessing risk of bias in systematic reviews
  • Advise teams on best practices in selecting a risk of bias tool

Audience

Librarians in any setting who work with systematic review teams or provide assistance on systematic reviews. While knowledge about the general systematic review process may be helpful, it is not required.

Presenters

Steph Hendren, AHIP is a Research and Education Librarian at Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives. She is the liaison to the Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy programs and an instructor for the systematic review class taught to Duke University affiliates. To date, she has worked on over 50 systematic reviews. She is also a co-creator of the Quality Assessment and Risk of Bias Tool Repository.

Leila Ledbetter, AHIP is a Research and Education Librarian at Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives. She is the liaison to the School of Nursing program and an instructor for the systematic review class taught to Duke University affiliates. Leila has been supporting systematic reviews at Duke for ten years and has published 30 systematic reviews. She is also a co-creator of the Quality Assessment and Risk of Bias Tool Repository.

EVENT – HLABC Halloween Trivia

by | 20 October 2022
0 comment

Trick or treat! You are invited to HLABC’s frightfully fun fall event. Join us on Friday, October 28 for an hour of virtual Halloween Trivia. 


WHEN: Friday, October 28, 12pm – 1pm PST

WHERE: Online via Zoom – Email Executive for the link

Prizes and Bragging rights are up for the winners!

EVENT & MEETING – May 16, 2022 – HLABC AGM CE

by | 10 May 2022
0 comment

The HLABC Executive Board is pleased to announce that Dr. Zahra Premji will be presenting this year’s Continuing Education class which will directly follow the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, May 16th – please see details below.

Register for the CE here: HLABC AGM CE Registration 

Please register by Wednesday, May 11th. A reminder message will follow. 

CE title:From E to S in ES: A pathway from Exploratory to Systematic searching using seed articles

Date:
Monday, May 16 2:30 – 4:00 pm PST via Zoom

About the CE presenter:
Zahra Premji is currently the Health Research Librarian at University of Victoria. She is passionate about rigour and reproducibility in evidence synthesis methods, and has supported evidence synthesis in a variety of disciplines since 2016. She is also the incoming co-convener of the ACRL Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group.

About the CE:
In this CE session, Dr. Zahra Premji will lead the group in exploring the process for creating a systematic search which starts with exploratory searches and seed articles.

This session will cover:
– The role, value, and process of exploratory searching with the goal of finding a set of seed articles
– A structured process for mining the seed articles to identify searchable concepts, keywords and subject headings
– Creating and testing systematic searches

Do you have questions or comments? Please respond via email to hlabcexec@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

HLABC Website Changes!

by | 25 February 2022
0 comment

The HLABC Exec is pleased to announce that our website has been updated and refreshed!

Our goal with the website redesign was to make our website more useful and easy to navigate for our members, enhance connection with our members, and to update our content and resources. To that end, on the updated website you will find changes to our menus to make them more intuitive, updated links and social media accounts to follow, and a new logo! 

We hired Emma Metcalfe Hurst, third year MASLIS graduate student at the UBC iSchool enrolled in the First Nations Concentration Curriculum (FNCC) to complete this project. To review her other work and to get in touch, visit her e-portfolio here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/emmametcalfehurst/.

Emma graciously prepared and narrated the video below that walks you through all of the different changes the website has gone through. We hope that you find the website easier to navigate and more useful as a resource.