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Training Course in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research 2011

Research methodology

Module coordinators: Shyam Thapa, Tomas Allen, Karim Abawi

• Research methodology - Course files
• Research methodology - WHO documents
• Glossary of terms used in health research
• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE): Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
  • ICMJE: Preparing a Manuscript for Submission to a Biomedical Journal
    • Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives: By Organization
      • Equator
    • Citing Medicine -- NCBI Bookshelf
      • International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Sample References
      • Citing biomedical documents - National Library of Medicine (NLM) style
• Randomized controlled trials
  • The Lancet epidemiology series - Grimes DA, Schulz KF
    • Allocation concealment in randomised trials: defending against deciphering
    • Blinding in randomised trials: hiding who got what
    • Generation of allocation sequences in randomised trials: chance, not choice
    • Sample size slippages in randomised trials: exclusions and the lost and wayward
    • Unequal group sizes in randomised trials: guarding against guessing
  • CONSORT - Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials
    • CONSORT Statement
  • Practihc - Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trials in HealthCare
    • Tools
• Systematic reviews, meta-analyses
  • Cochrane Collaboration
    • Cochrane Library
    • Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
    • RevMan
  • PRISMA - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
    • PRISMA Statement
• Grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations
  • GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) working group
    • GRADEpro
    • Organizations that have endorsed or that are using GRADE
    • Publications