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9.45am REGISTRATION and COFFEE
10.15am Welcome and introduction
10.30am Pre-test
11.00am Overview of studies and hierarchy of evidence
Dr Mary C M Macintosh, Obstetrician and Director of CESDI, London
11.45am COFFEE
12 noon Cohort studies: Design and analysis
Dr Peter Brocklehurst, Consultant Clinical Epidemiologist, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford and
Ms Jo Haviland, Statistician, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton
1.00pm LUNCH
2.00pm Design of cohort studies (Workshop)
Dr Mary C M Macintosh, Dr Peter Brocklehurst, Ms Jo Haviland and
Ms Jane Thomas, Director of National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health, London
3.00pm Presentation and discussion of cohort studies
4.30pm TEA
5.00pm Using Epi-Info for cohort studies (Statistical software package)
Ms Jo Haviland
6.00pm CLOSE
Thursday 3 April
9.00am Case control studies: Design and analysis
Dr Mary C M Macintosh and Ms Jo Haviland
10.00am Design of case control studies (Workshop)
11.00am COFFEE
11.15am Presentation and discussion of case control studies
12.35pm LUNCH
1.20pm Randomised controlled trials: Design and analysis
Dr Peter Brocklehurst
2.20pm Randomised controlled trials (Guest speaker)
Dr Siladitya Bhattacharya, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital
3.10pm Design of randomised controlled trials (Workshop)
4.10pm TEA
4.40pm Presentation and discussion of randomised controlled trials
6.00pm CLOSE with DRINKS RECEPTION
Friday 4 April
9.00am Systematic reviews: Design and analysis
Dr Peter Brocklehurst and Ms Jo Haviland
10.00am Demonstration of the Cochrane Library
Dr Peter Brocklehurst
10.15am Analysis of confounding
Ms Jo Haviland
10.45am COFFEE
11.00am Further Epi Info exercises
Ms Jo Haviland
12.00pm LUNCH
1.00pm Screening
Dr Mary C M Macintosh and Ms Jo Haviland
3.00pm TEA
3.30pm Post-test
4.00pm Overall review / Feedback
4.30pm CLOSE of MEETING
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