Introduction to QES

Health care policy and practice decisions should be based on a synthesis of the global body of evidence rather than relying on individual studies. Evidence Synthesis Ireland promotes evidence based healthcare policy and practice by supporting high quality, relevant systematic reviews including the synthesis of qualitative evidence.

This workshop provides authors, with an interest in learning more about the QES process, with a comprehensive overview of the approaches to and the methods for qualitative evidence synthesis. It offers an insight to the development of a protocol, introducing participants to, search methods, selecting studies, assessing the quality of studies, data extraction and approaches to synthesis.

In this course participants will be enabled to:

• Understand the basic principles of a qualitative evidence synthesis

• Identify the purpose and scope of a QES

• Understand search methods and apply these methods to a search strategy

• Discuss the criteria for selecting studies

• Assess the quality of studies

• Discuss the principles involved in extracting and synthesising findings from a QES.

• Identify the process of application of Grade CERQual to QES findings.

The workshop will consist of a mixture of short presentations, led by members of the ESI teaching faculty covering each of the stages of developing a QES, small group activities based around worked examples and exercises and plenary discussions, providing participants with the opportunity to discuss and develop their understanding of the QES process.

Dr Linda Biesty

Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Evidence Science, University of Galway.

Deputy Director, Evidence Synthesis Ireland

Prof. Pauline Meskell

Professor of Reserach, University of Limerick.

ESI Executive Management Committee & Research Associate

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