🚦Essentials for #evidencesynthesis #HTA #guidelines in The BMJ ROBVALU: a risk of bias tool for studies of people’s values, utilities or importance of health outcomes bmj.com/content/385/bm… Lawrence Mbuagbaw @hppardoh Pablo Alonso Adrienne Stevens Uwe Siebert Feng Xie

Despite acknowledgement of overuse of imaging for back pain, we found that utilization in Ontario and Manitoba has remained unchanged (x-ray) or greatly increased (MRI): t.ly/huB84

Are you interested in #EvidenceAndGapMaps and #MappingReviews? We are seeking people like you to join our #PRITEM Delphi process to develop consensus and evidence-based guidelines on reporting: Sign up here! 👇👇👇 wjx.cn/vm/tUHVMvR.asp…

We would love to hear from you about the future of co-production in evidence synthesis!

The conversation in 🇨🇦 on the opioid/drug poisoning crisis has become quite challenging. Emotions are high and the crisis worsens 📈. How did we get here and what can we do to work together to change the crisis? ⬇️

Major milestone worth sharing! Proud of Samer Karam for the impactful work you have done as part of your PhD! Check out the ROBVALU tool published in BMJ for assessing risk of bias in studies of people’s values, utilities and importance of outcomes. #tooldevelopment

Thank you McMaster Health Sciences for the feature in your Office Hours series. Very grateful for the mentors I have had along the way that helped me pave my career path! Elie Akl Holger Schünemann Jason Busse Gordon H. Guyatt Office Hours with Andrea Darzi healthsci.mcmaster.ca/office-hours-w…

Meet Andrea J. Darzi MD, MPH, PhD, assistant professor McMaster Anesthesia & @HEI_McMaster. Darzi’s career pivoted from medical training to making pain management more trustworthy by using methodology & providing care teams with the highest quality evidence-based guidelines. ow.ly/EQ2B50SWP7L

Meet Andrea J. Darzi MD, MPH, PhD, assistant professor in the Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. Access the full story to learn about her journey and how she's making pain management more trustworthy: healthsci.mcmaster.ca/office-hours-w…

Starting #GES2024 with: Science has to be defined in terms of quality, ethical dimension and science needs to work for everybody…Framing the evidence base…is an absolutely critical role for this community to ensure that science increases #equity - David Farrar GESummit

Carla Saenz on how #Policy or #guidelines can’t be #ethical if not based on #evidence. Must note ‘2nd wave’ of evidence-informed decisions where ethical claims shouldn’t be conflated with evidence &should be assessed with rigor. Ethics analysis needed. GESummit #GES2024

Great end to the 3rd day GESummit facilitating the GRADE workshop (using #GRADE to assess certainty of evidence) lead by Nancy Santesso with Gian Paolo Morgano Romina Brignardello Tamara Lotfi (she/her) Wojtek Wiercioch Farid Foroutan Rebecca L. Morgan at GESummit #GES2024 Cochrane Canada Grade centre

Got to talk today about our CIHR funded project on developing, evaluating & implementing a digital #ChronicPain #RecommendationMap in a session chaired by Jitka Klugarová &Emma Persad GESummit Evidence Prime Cochrane Canada National Pain Centre #GES2024 GIN Member

Last day of GESummit kicking off with Joanne Khabsa and Elie Akl discussing the importance of contextual factors in #guideline development/ #adolopment #adaptation GESummit #GES2024 #workshop

Great poster presentation by Kian Torabi who discussed with GESummit attendees our CIHR funded #strategy to develop a #knowledgetranslation plan for the #guidelines conducted on #opioid therapy and chronic non cancer #pain #GES2024 #chronicpain #KT #implementation

Building on the workshop we had on the 1st day of the GESummit on #adolopment of #guidelines, that was lead by Tamara Lotfi (she/her) , by facilitating the discussion on importance of #contextualization & factors to consider - accounting for perspectives of different interest holders.

Starting the Grade meeting post GESummit with a presentation by Samer Karam on guidance for assessing certainty in evidence for patients’ values, utilities and importance of outcomes Holger Schünemann Pablo Alonso Ray #ROBVALU #riskofbias #DIRECTVALU #indirectness

The Lebanese Physicians Podcast with Dr MAJ Andrea J. Darzi MD, MPH, PhD spotify.link/wNQdT5c2SMb discussing guideline development, recommendation maps, and making guidelines adaptable to physicians, patients, cultures and research

A great pleasure talking to Khalil Diab Dr MAJ on The Lebanese Physicians Podcast podcast regarding our CIHR CIHR-IMHA Community funded project on developing and mobilizing a #chronicpain #recommendationmap (e-ChronicPain RecMap) National Pain Centre Cochrane Canada open.spotify.com/episode/1PqFu6…

🚨New recommendation on Metformin 💊 out from Cochrane Canada #CANPCC guideline on Long COVID Post -COVID condition. ⚖️ Conditional recommendation in favour of using Metformin for people with COVID-19 infection to prevent Post-COVID Condition. It could prevent 41/1,000 cases of