5th Annual meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
PROGRAMME
Sala de Grados, School of Business, University of Cartagena
5-7 July 2010
Monday, 5 July
0930 Welcome: John Ioannidis, President, and
Julio Sánchez Meca, Local Arrangements Chair
0945 Presidential Address
John Ioannidis: Meta-research and the art of getting it wrong
1045 Coffee
1115 Introductions by delegates
1200 Cross-disciplinary challenges
Gavin Stewart
1230 Lunch
Special Session: Bias adjustment in synthesis
1330 Bias adjustment in evidence synthesis
Becky Turner
1400 Models for potentially biased evidence in meta-analysis using empirically based priors
Nicky J Welton
1430 ‘Cross-disciplinary’ discussion, led by Mike Brannick and Larry Hedges
1510 Tea
1540 Adjusting for biases in a multi-parameter epidemiological synthesis model
Tony Ades
1610 A case study in sensitivity to bias adjustments in a meta-analysis incorporated into a cost-effectiveness model
Hayley Jones, Sylwia Bujkiewicz, Rebecca Turner, Monica Lai, Nicola Cooper, Neil Hawkins, Hazel Pilgrim, Keith Abrams, David Spiegelhalter, Alex Sutton
1630 Mapping bias issues in 30 years of biomedical research
David Chavalarias & John Ioannidis
1650 General discussion of bias adjustment issues
1715 End of session
{1715-1915 Trustees meeting (for Trustees only)}
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Tuesday, 6 July
Session 2: General methodological issues
0900 Issues in the planning of systematic reviews in food and feed safety
Julian Higgins
0920 Comparing the performance of alternative statistical tests for moderators in mixed-effects meta-regression models
José A López-López, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Julio Sánchez-Meca & Fulgencio Marín-Martínez
0950 The Reliability Generalization Meta-analytic Approach: Do different Statistical Methods
matter?
Julio Sánchez Meca, José A. López-López, José A López-Pina & Fulgencio Marín-Martínez
1010 Sample Heterogeneity and Reliability Generalization
Juan Botella
1030 Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package
Wolfgang Viechtbauer
1050 Coffee
Session 3: Correlated estimates
1120 Structural Equation Models in Meta-Analysis: Can Control Stochastic Dependence Due to Multiple Treatment Groups
Paul R. Hernadez, Tania B. Huedo-Medina, H. Jane Rogers & Blair T. Johnson
1140 Synthesis of a Partial Effect Size for the r Family
Ariel Aloe
1200 Further Results on Robust Variance Estimates for Meta-analysis Involving Correlated Effect Size Estimates
Elizabeth Tipton & Nathan Jones
1220 Representing multiple treatment effects using synthesized regression models
Betsy Becker
1240 Synthesizing evidence on multiple measures with measurement errors
Guobing Lu & Tony Ades
1300 Lunch
Tuesday, 6 July (ctd)
Session 4: Special designs
1400 Meta-analysis of Growth Curves from Sample Means
Jack L. Vevea & Martyna Citkowicz
1430 Diagnostic reviews: should we focus summary points or summary curves?
Petra Macaskill
1450 Characteristics of Single-Case Designs Relevant to Their Synthesis.
Will R Shadish & Kristynn Sullivan.
1510 The Visual and Narrative Interpretation of Research Syntheses
Geoffrey D. Borman & Jeffrey A. Grigg
1530 Tea
1545 Business Meeting
including presentation of the Olkin Award,
and a report from the Journal editors.
1715 End of Session
1800 Harbour boat trip, followed by bus to dinner in Cabo de Palos
2400 Return to NH Hotel
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Wednesday, 7 July
Session 5: Networks and Multilevel analyses
0900 Structural- vs. Study-Level Characteristics in Meta-Analysis: Application to HIV Prevention Interventions Tania B. Huedo-Medina & Blair T. Johnson
0920 Using multilevel models for dependent effect sizes
Wim Van den Noortgate
0940 Second Order Meta-Analysis
Frank L. Schmidt & In-Sue Oh
1000 Combining Pre-Post and Group Comparison Effect Sizes to Conduct a Multiple-Treatments Meta-Analysis of Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents
Mark W. Lipsey, Emily Tanner-Smith & Sandra J. Wilson
Wednesday, 7 July (ctd)
1020 Multiple Treatments Meta-Analysis for Categorical Outcomes
Christopher H Schmid, Thomas A Trikalinos & Ingram Olkin
1040 Coffee
Session 6: Publication bias and missing data (etc)
1110 Quantifying Selective Reporting and the Proteus Phenomenon for Multiple Datasets with Similar Bias
Thomas Pfeiffer, Lars Bertram & John P.A. Ioannidis
1130 Empirical investigation of bias in the reporting, publication, and dissemination of randomized controlled trials in the behavioral and social sciences: A proposal
Julia H. Littell
1150 The need for principles for meta-analysis utilizing non–peer-reviewed data in the public domain
Jesse A. Berlin
1220 A New Approach to Meta-analysis Using Joint Partial Identification Regions
Christopher Rhoads
1240 Using Bibliometric Temporal Trends to Predict Numbers of Studies Available for Research Synthesis
Blair T. Johnson &Tania B. Huedo-Medina
1300 Lunch
1400 The Olkin Award Lecture
Joseph Lau: Towards a Data Repository for Systematic Reviews in Healthcare
1500 End of presentation sessions
1600 Bus from NH Hotel to Murcia, for tour followed by Conference Dinner at Siete Coronas Hotel
2400 Return to NH Hotel Cartagena by bus for those not staying at Siete Coronas Hotel, Murcia
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