Research Synthesis for Clinical Decision-Making: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Catalog description

This graduate course teaches the full pipeline of evidence synthesis for research, quality improvement, and clinical and biomedical decision-making, from question formulation and protocol registration to reproducible searches, screening, data extraction, risk of bias assessment, quantitative synthesis, certainty of evidence, and translation to practice. Students complete a hands-on mini-review using JASP/MetaWin/R and modern tools for screening, visualization, and reporting aligned to PRISMA, Cochrane, and GRADE standards. Emphasis is on decisions in clinical research, quality improvement, and health policy, with extensions to research & applied informatics and artificial intelligence. Graded on A-F basis only. Credit Hour s : 3 Recommended: Graduate statistics or biostatistics training is recommended