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Below is the final programme of parallel oral sessions. One session usually comprises four presentations. Each oral paper will be allocated 20 minutes (13 minutes for the presentation and seven minutes for questions). Presenting authors of the papers are marked in bold. Please contact the Scientific Secretariat at abstracts AT cochrane.org, if you require any information and/or clarification.

Monday 12 Oct - Oral Sessions 1-5
11:15-12:45h Oral Session 1: Knowledge translation for decision makers Oral Session 2: Public disclosure and reporting of trials Oral Session 3: Editorial processes Oral Session 4: Statistical methods Oral Session 5: Searching and information retrieval

Tuesday 13 Oct - Oral Sessions 6-10
11:15-12:45h Oral Session 6: Diagnostic test accuracy review methods Oral Session 7: Outcome reporting issues Oral Session 8: Research priorities and consumer involvement Oral Session 9: Dissemination and downstream products Oral Session 10: Editorial issues: assessment of bias

Wednesday 14 Oct - Oral Sessions 11-16
11:15-12:45h Oral Session 11: Reporting of trials and research Oral Session 12: Qualitative synthesis Oral Session 13: Editorial processes: rapid response and international partnerships Oral Session 14: Summary of Findings tables and GRADE Oral Session 15: Training and support: building review capacity Oral Session 16: Prioritisation of review topics

Monday 12 Oct - Oral Sessions 1-5
11:15-12:45h Oral Session 1: Knowledge translation for decision makers - Room 201 Chair: Rebecca Armstrong Future directions for the Cochrane Policy Liaison Initiative: a long-term knowledge transfer and exchange partnership with the Australian Department of Health and Ageing Miranda Cumpston, Sue Brennan, Marie Misso, Matthew Murphy, Sally Green A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of three knowledge translation and exchange interventions among public health decision makers Maureen Dobbins, Kara DeCorby, Paula Robeson Who is responsible for considering how contextual factors affect healthcare interventions: reviewers, end users of reviews or both? Nathalie Colomer, Russel Gruen Including process evaluations in systematic reviews: reflections from a review of sexual health promotion Angela Harden, Elaine Barnett-Page, Jonathan Shepherd, Josephine Kavanagh, Jo Picot Oral Session 2: Public disclosure and reporting of trials - Room 202 Chair: David Moher International standards for Public Reporting of Clinical Trial Outcomes and Results (PROCTOR): a proposal to increase the quality of evidence produced by systematic reviews Karmela Krleza-Jeric, Benjamin Djubegovic, Mona Nasser, Ludovic Reveiz, Mirjana Huic, Trudo Lemmens, Ida Sim, Wendy Armstrong, Craig Metz, Khaled Elemam, Elizabeth Wager CONSORT for improving the quality of reports of randomized trials: a large scale survey of PubMed articles Sally Hopewell, Susan Dutton, An-Wen Chan, Doug Altman What modifications are made in studies reviewed by the United States Food and Drug Administration for medical device approval? Lisa Bero, Sanket Dhruva, Rita Redberg To what extent do trials stopped early for benefit overestimate treatment effects? Gordon Guyatt, Dirk Bassler, Victor Montori, Matthias Briel, Melanie Lane, Qi Zhou, Paul Glasziou Oral Session 3: Editorial processes - Room 208 Chair: Cindy Farquhar An exploratory analysis of lumping and splitting in systematic reviews Michelle Weir, Alain Mayhew, Dean Fergusson, Jeremy Grimshaw ORBIT study: outcome reporting bias in trials – primary outcomes in Cochrane systematic reviews Jamie Kirkham, Doug Altman, Paula Williamson Interpreting Cochrane systematic reviews: can we do without authors’ conclusions? Nai Ming Lai, Cheong Lieng Teng, Cheong Wooi Cheah, Ming Lee Lee Four years’ feedback submitted through The Cochrane Library: what happened to it? John Carlisle Oral Session 4: Statistical methods - Room 203 Chair: Jonathan Sterne Impact of randomised controlled trials reporting modified intention to treat on meta-analysis: preliminary results Iosief Abraha, Piergiorgio Duca, Alessandro Montedori Empirical evidence about heterogeneity in Cochrane reviews Jonathan Davey, Rebecca Turner, Mike Clarke, Julian Higgins A critique and guide of methods to assess interactions in individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis David Fisher, Andrew Copas, Jayne Tierney, Mahesh Parmar Evaluation of novelty bias in multiple-treatments meta-regression within and between networks of comparison Georgia Salanti, John Ioannidis, Sofia Dias, Nicky Welton, Maria Kyrgiou, Vassilis Golfinopoulos, Davide Mauri, AE Ades Oral Session 5: Searching and information retrieval - Room 209 Chair: Alison Weightman Identifying research literature from low and middle income countries Josephine Kavanagh, Alison Weightman, Marit Johansen, Ruth Turley, Claire Stansfield, Mala Mann, Helen Morgan, Jeff Brunton, Liz Waters Industry clinical trial registries as a data source for systematic reviews Thomas Kaiser, Michaela Florina Kerekes, Beate Wieseler Checking reference lists to find additional studies for systematic reviews Tanya Horsley, Orvie Dingwall, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Margaret Sampson Leverage your evidence: analyze the evidence base of your systematic review to inform the update search Margaret Sampson Tuesday 13 Oct - Oral Sessions 6-10 11:15-12:45h Oral Session 6: Diagnostic test accuracy review methods - Room 201 Chair: Rob Scholten Partial and differential verification in diagnostic accuracy studies Anne WS Rutjes, Johannes B Reitsma, Les Irwig, Patrick MM Bossuyt An empirical assessment of the validity of uncontrolled comparisons of the accuracy of diagnostic tests Yemisi Takwoingi, Jac Dinnes, Mariska Leeflang, Jon Deeks Performance of methods for meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies when few studies are available Yemisi Takwoingi, Boliang Guo, Richard Riley, Jon Deeks The relation between heterogeneity in diagnostic accuracy, prevalence and patient characteristics: an illustration with individual patient data meta-analysis (IPDMA) Brent Opmeer, Johannes Reitsma, Kimiko Broeze, Ben Willem Mol Oral Session 7: Outcome reporting issues - Room 203 Chair: Julian Higgins Outcome reporting bias in trials (ORBIT) Jamie Kirkham, Kerry Dwan, Doug Altman, Carrol Gamble, Susanna Dodd, Ann Jacoby, Rebecca Smyth, Paula Williamson The ORBIT study: outcome reporting bias in trials – interviews with trialists who do and do not report all outcomes Rebecca Smyth, Ann Jacoby, Jamie Kirkham, Carrol Gamble, Douglas Altman, Paula Williamson Multiplicity of data in trial reports: an important challenge for the reliability of meta-analyses Britta Tendal, Eveline Nüesch, Julian Higgins, Peter Jüni, Peter C Gøtzsche Treatment related harms: what was planned and what was reported? An analysis of Southwest Oncology Group phase III trials Rahul Mhaskar, Ambuj Kumar, Heloisa Soares, Bill Gardner, Benjamin Djulbegovic Oral Session 8: Research priorities and consumer involvement - Room 202 Chair: Gill Gyte Clinicians’ and patients’ research priorities: a scoping review Ruth Stewart, Jennifer Caird, Kathryn Oliver, Sandy Oliver Important gaps in the evidence: patients and clinicians working together to identify and prioritize important research questions in urinary incontinence Brian Buckley, Adrian Grant, Lester Firkins, Douglas Tincello, Adrian Wagg What place do consumers and an international network structure have within The Cochrane Collaboration? A formal review Bec Hanley, Janet Wale, María Belizán, Jane Nadel Involving young people in systematic reviews of qualitative and observational studies Kathryn Oliver, Louca-Mai Brady, Rebecca Rees, Josephine Kavanagh, James Thomas, Sandy Oliver Oral Session 9: Dissemination and downstream products - Room 209 Chair: Harriet MacLehose A new format for Plain Language Summaries: does it improve understanding, and is it useful and preferable? Nancy Santesso, Claire Glenton, Agustin Ciapponi, Elin Stromme Nilsen, Jordi Pardo Pardo, Tamara Rader Translating the abstracts in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) into Chinese Wen-Hsin Shen, Heng-Lien Lo, Ya-Wen (Betty) Chiu, Chiehfeng (Cliff) Chen, Ken N Kuo Online evidence-based practice point of care information summaries: a content evaluation cross-sectional study Lorenzo Moja, Rita Banzi, Ludovica Tagliabue, Ivan Moschetti, Alessandro Liberati Oral Session 10: Editorial issues: assessment of bias - Room 208 Chair: Chris Cates Trial registration can be useful source of information for quality assessment: a study of trials records retrieved from the WHO search portal Ludovic Reveiz, An-Wen Chan, Karmela Krleza-Jeric, Carlos Granados, Mariona Pinart, Itziar Etxeandia, Diego Rada, Monserrat Martinez, Andres Felipe Cardona Applying the risk of bias tool in a systematic review of combination long-acting beta-agonists and inhaled corticosteroids for maintenance therapy of persistent asthma Lisa Hartling, Kenneth Bond, Ben Vandermeer, Jennifer Seida, Donna Dryden, Brian Rowe Assessing quality in systematic reviews of the effectiveness of health promotion and public health: areas of consensus and dissension Jonathan Shepherd Seek and ye shall find: methods for obtaining unpublished data Taryn Young, Sally Hopewell Wednesday 14 Oct - Oral Sessions 11-16 11:15-12:45h Oral Session 11: Reporting of trials and research - Room 201 Chair: Prathap Tharyan Endorsement of the CONSORT Statement in Chinese medical journals: a survey of Instruction to Authors Hongcai Shang, Jing Hu CONSORT guidelines for reporting abstracts of randomized trials: a survey of its impact on high impact journals Sally Hopewell, Isabelle Boutron, Mike Clarke Differential reporting of subgroup analyses in trials between high impact and lower impact journals Xin Sun, Matthias Briel, Elie Akl, Jason Busse, Natalia Diaz-Granado, Filip Majza, Malgorzata Bala, John You, Sadeesh Srinathan, Mohamed Alshurafa, Stephen Walter, Gordon Guyatt Extent of dissemination bias from research inception to manuscript submission: meta-analysis of cohort studies of publication bias Fujian Song, Sheetal Parekh, Lee Hooper, Yoon Loke, Jon Ryder, Alex Sutton, Caroline Hing, Ian Harvey Oral Session 12: Qualitative synthesis - Room 303 Chair: Jane Noyes In what ways can synthesising qualitative research be systematic? James Thomas, Angela Harden Integrating quantitative and qualitative evidence in Cochrane reviews: a novel methodological approach Rigmor C Berg, Kari Ann Leiknes, Geir Smedslund, Simon Nygaard Øverland, Karianne Thune Hammerstrøm, Bjørg Høie Meta analysis with qualitative synthesis on the effects of self-monitoring of blood glucose among people with type diabetes: methodological perspectives on qualitative data in reviews of effects Craig Lockwood, Rie Konno Synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence in systematic reviews: an example from public health Fiona Campbell, Liddy Goyder, Maxine Johnson, Josie Messina, Louise Guillaume Oral Session 13: Editorial processes: rapid response and international partnerships - Room 202 Chair: Tari Turner Rapid Cochrane reviews: ‘live testing’ of the concept in a Cochrane Review Group and observations on rapid editorial processes Sally Bell-Syer, Joan Webster, Ruth Foxlee, Nicky Cullum The Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group and rapid advice for the World Health Organization Tara Horvath, Nandi Siegfried, Gail Kennedy, Eliza Humphreys, George Rutherford Global malaria treatment guidelines: Cochrane response to WHO guideline panel David Sinclair, Babalwa Zani, Hasifa Bukirwa, Sarah Donegan, Piero Olliaro, Paul Garner Multiple and discordant systematic reviews in medical literature: an epidemiological cross sectional study across medical fields Elena Parmelli, Maria del Pilar Fernandez del Rio, Silvia Minozzi, Giovanni Lodi, Gianni Virgili, Cristina Cusi, Rita Banzi, Roberto D'Amico, Alessandro Liberati, Lorenzo Moja Oral Session 14: Summary of Findings tables and GRADE - Room 203 Chair: Nancy Santesso Assessing the quality of a body of evidence: experiences with the GRADE approach Miranda Langendam, Sharon Kramer, Roy Elbers, Lotty Hooft, Rob Scholten Rating quality of evidence using Cochrane/GRADE approach: sub-group analysis Gordon Guyatt, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Andrew Oxman, Regina Kunz, Mark Helfand, Jan Brozek, Gunn Vist, Holger Schünemann WITHDRAWN Approaches to estimate and present baseline risks: recommendations for Cochrane review Summary of Findings (SoF) tables Jill Hayden, George Tomlinson, Maurits van Tulder, Doug Altman WITHDRAWN Absolute risk reduction estimation and reporting in systematic reviews Pablo Alonso-Coello, Affan Iffran, Ivan Solà, Carlos E Granados, Paul Karanicolas, Elie Akl, Holger Schünemann, Victor Montori, Gordon Guyatt Oral Session 15: Training and support: building review capacity - Room 208 Chair: Zbys Fedorowicz Building capacity for Cochrane activity in South East Asia: impact of the SEA-ORCHID Project Jacqueline Ho, Steve McDonald Identifying methodological challenges in systematic reviews of health policy and systems research in low- and middle-income countries Francisca Florenzano, Tomás Pantoja Challenges in conducting Cochrane systematic reviews in traditional Chinese medicine: how has the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group helped? Xiaoshu Zhu Oral Session 16: Prioritisation of review topics - Room 209 Chair: Sally Green Identifying priorities for systematic reviews relevant to Australian health policy makers Miranda Cumpston, Emma Tavender, Heather Buchan, Russell Gruen An equity lens for identifying priority topics for Cochrane reviews Mona Nasser, Vivian Welch, Peter Tugwell, Erin Ueffing, Hilda Bastian Priority-setting for systematic reviews in Nigeria Ekong Udoh, Eucharia Nwagbara, Akudo Nwagbara, Emmanuel Effa, Segun Bello, Bassey Edet, Chioma Oringanje, Felix Eke, Martin Meremikwu