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Statistical Challenges for Meta-Analysis of Medical and Health-Policy Data May 09, 2002 - May 11, 2002

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May 09, 2002
Thursday
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
  Registration
Loa Nowina-Sapinski
09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
  Welcome & Introduction
Loa Nowina-Sapinski
09:20 AM - 09:50 AM
  Applying the law of iterated logarithm to cumulative meta-analysis of continuous outcomes
Joseph Cappelleri
09:50 AM - 10:20 AM
  The need for multiple-bias modeling in meta-analysis and pooled analysis
Sander Greenland
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
  Morning Tea
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
  Equating of measures: Report from the workshop
Paul Holland
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Publication bias: New data on the origins of the problem
Kay Dickersin
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
  Instability in the Fail-Safe Number and an alternative approach
I. Allen
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
  Lunch
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
  The value of prospectively planned integrated analyses across a drug development programme
Phil Poole
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
  Publication bias: Report from the workshop
Sally Morton
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM
  Comparisons between randomized and non-randomized evidence
John Ioannidis
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  Disparate evidence and policy: Could medicine learn from social science?
Betsy Becker
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
  Meta-analysis of diagnostic test data
Stephen Walter
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
  Is selective reporting a potential source of bias in systematic reviews?
An-Wen Chan
May 10, 2002
Friday
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
  TBA
Charles Anello
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy assessment studies with varying number of cutpoints
Vanja Dukic
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Morning Tea
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
  Meta-analysis for policy decisions: Report from the workshop
Diana Pettiti
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
  Inference from multiple studies: Exploring heterogeneity
Charles Anello
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
  Evolution of effects over time: Recursive cumulative meta-analysis applications in randomized research and molecular medicine
John Ioannidis
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
  Lunch
01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
  Heterogeneity models: Report from the workshop
Joseph Lau
02:15 PM - 02:45 PM
  How big are the biases associated with non-randomised designs used in evaluations of healthcare interventions? An empirical investigation
Douglas Altman
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM
  Evaluating therapeutic equivalence using meta-analysis: Implications for economic analyses
Michael Ortiz
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  An investigation and development of methods for creating empirically correct confidence intervals for meta-analytic parameters when the number of studies meta-analyzed is small
Kyle Fahrbach
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
  Are comparability of case-mix and the use of statistical adjustment markers of quality in non-randomised studies? An empirical investigation
Jonathan Deeks
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
  Symposium Dinner
May 11, 2002
Saturday
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
  A meta-analysis of Japanese and Western clinical trial data in order to help demonstrate similarity in efficacy between the two regions
Scott Haughie
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Evaluation of study quality, heterogeneity, and publication bias: A survey of systematic reviews on HIV/AIDS
Madhukar Pai
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Morning Tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Methodological challenges in performing systematic reviews of economic analyses: a case study of colorectal cancer screening
Michael Pignone
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  Is meta-analysis appropriate in face of heterogeneity?
Gary Strauss
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Adjusting for publication bias in the presence of heterogeneity
Norma Terrin
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Medical Studies and the Media -- Discussion
John Pope
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  Afternoon Tea
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