Meeting Agenda

October 26, 2009

Keck Center of The National Academies
500 Fifth Street NW, Room 101
Washington, DC

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8:00-9:30 am CLOSED SESSION

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9:30 am Begin OPEN SESSION

• Sponsor: Jean Slutsky, Director, AHRQ Center for Outcomes and Evidence
  
• Shawn Bishop, Senate Finance
  
• Discussion

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Current Approaches to Setting Standards for Systematic Reviews

• PRISMA reporting standards — Jesse Berlin, VP, Epidemiology, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development
  
• Discussion

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12:00-12:30 pm CLOSED SESSION

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12:30 pm Continue OPEN SESSION

Current Approaches cont’d

• GRADE — Yngve Falck-Ytter, Asst Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University; Director of Hepatology, VA Medical Center Cleveland
  
• Cochrane Collaboration - Kay Dickersin, Director, Center for Clinical Trials and U.S. Cochrane Center
  
• Discussion

2:15 pm Break

2:30 pm Current Approaches cont’d

• AHRQ Guidance — Mark Helfand, Director, Oregon Evidence-Based Practice Center, Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health and Science University

• Discussion

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3:45-5:00 pm CLOSED SESSION

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5:00pm Adjourn

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