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Presentations from the US Cochrane Center Conference
Priority Setting for Systematic Reviews (July 10-11, 2008)

How do we decide which systematic review to do? Is there an ideal system for prioritizing which systematic reviews get done, or are there many ways to make the decision? Policy makers, health care providers, consumers and payers will come together to share current practice, innovative approaches, and untested models to set priorities. Conference participants will explore new and existing priority setting models through plenary sessions, case studies, debates, workshops and discussions. Models, criteria, standards and methods will be presented by a wide variety of individuals and agencies involved in producing systematic reviews.

Agenda

July 10, 2008
The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) rationale and principles for prioritizing systematic reviews
	Chair: Kay Dickersin, Director, US Cochrane Center
	Speaker: Hal Sox - Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine
	Discussant: Prioritizing Syntheses - Sharon Straus, University of Calgary, Canada
Methods to Prioritize systematic Reviews: Case Studies I
	Chair: Steve Goodman, Johns Hopkins University Biostatistics
	AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program - Evelyn Whitlock, Kaiser Permanente, Oregon
	The UK’s National Health Service R&D and Department of Health Programmes - Martin Burton, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
	The Cochrane Collaboration - Lorne Becker Co-Chair, Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group
	Canada’s Approach: Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Ian Graham Canadian Institutes of Health Research
July 11, 2008
Plenary debate: Models of priority setting for systematic reviews of clinical effectiveness
	Chair: Lisa Bero, University of California San Francisco
	Let 1000 flowers bloom: Support for the current "system" - Doug McCrory - Duke University Medical School
	Both prioritization and review production should be centralized - Gail Wilensky Project Hope
	How can we leverage the best of these two models? A hybrid model of centralized priority setting - Sally Morton, Research Triangle Institute
Panel: Knotty problems related to review prioritization
	Chair: Nananda Col - Maine Medical Center
	Meaningful engagement of decision makers in priority-setting- Sean Tunis, Center for Medical Technology Policy
	Considering adverse effects in priioritising reviews- Andrew Herxheimer - Cochrane Collaboration Adverse Effects Methods Group
	A mid flight correction: setting priorities - David Moher, University of Ottawa
	Incorporating systematic reviews into other systematic reviews: Can we save time and be valid? - Evelyn Whitlock, Kaiser Permanente, Oregon
Methods to Prioritize systematic Reviews: Case Studies II
	Chair: Luis Gabriel Cuervo - Pan American Health Organization
	Drug Effectiveness Review Project - Alison Little, Oregon Health & Science University
	The James Lind Alliance and I - Lester Firkins, James Lind Alliance
	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Community Guide - Shawna Mercer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Open Discussion: Working together or working apart: Cross-group cooperation in priority setting
	Chair: Eric Bass - Johns Hopkins University Department of General Internal Medicine
	Jean Slutsky, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
	Lisa Bero, University of California San Francisco

Acknowledgement:
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