Facilitators: Jane Gagliardi and Alyssa Stephany

Learning Objectives:

1. continue to investigate the relevance of utilizing EBM in the care of patients and public health policy.
2. understand the concepts of meta-analysis, heterogeneity, weighting, and effect size.
3. able to draw and interpret a forest plot.
4. critically assess a systematic review, to determine precision and applicability of results.

• Systematic Review lecture slides

• ACP Journal Club: Primer on 95% Confidence Intervals
• JAMAevidence: Chapter 10.3. What Determines the Width of the Confidence Interval?
• Dr. Gagliardi's note on CI

• JAMAevidence: Summarizing the Evidence

• How to Critically Appraise a Systematic Review