Plenary session 1 (08.30 – 10.45)

Chair: Gordon Guyatt

KEYNOTE | The covidization of medical science

John Ioannidis | Stanford University, USA
view slides | view photos    

KEYNOTE | Evidence-based translational medicine: connecting basic and clinical research

Emily Sena | University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
view slides | view photos  

Living evidence to inform health decisions framework (LE-IHD): a practical interactive framework based tool to guide the incorporation of Living Evidence in the development of knowledge transfer products

Maria Ximena Rojas | Institut d'Recerca Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain
view slides | view photos    

Effectiveness and user experience of digital plain language COVID-19 health recommendations (PLR) in people of different age and health literacy: Results of three randomized controlled trials and qualitative studies

Holger Schünemann | McMaster University, Canada
view slides | view photos    

Dead on arrival? An overview of living systematic reviews and their methodological rigor

Melanie Golob | University of Oxford, United Kingdom
view slides | view photos      

Engaging citizen partners within a rapid review process

Maureen Dobbins | McMaster University, Canada
view slides | view photos  

When seemingly essential methods don’t hold up in a pandemic: an adaptive approach to a living, rapid review on the SARS-CoV-2 antibody response

Haley Holmer | Portland VA Research Foundation, USA
view slides | view photos  

Plenary session 2 (11.15 – 13.00)

Chair: Lubna Al-Ansary

KEYNOTE | Too many publications, too little evidence: what can editors of biomedical journals do?

Kamran Abbasi | The BMJ, United Kingdom
view photos  

KEYNOTE | Real-world Evidence: another tool in the toolbox

John Concato | U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA
view slides | view photos  

Thirty years of developments in Evidence-Based Practice: have teaching and assessment methods in the health professions kept up?

Aliki Thomas | McGill University, Canada
view slides | view photos  

A learning system using routinely collected cohort data to combine research and care for continuous evaluation of personalized treatment strategies: the MultiSCRIPT project

Perrine Janiaud | Univeristy Hospital Basel, Switzerland
view slides | view photos  

Increasing value of health research by making evidence-based funding decision

Jong-wook Ban | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, USA
view slides | view photos    

See one, do one, teach one. Building capacity of african teachers of evidence-based health care through experiential learning

Anke Rohwer | Stellenbosch University, South Africa
view slides | view photos    

Vaccine communication training for healthcare providers: an IMMUNION initiative

Aurélie De Waele | University of Antwerp, Belgium
view slides | view photos  

Parallel session A (14.30 – 16.30)

Chair: Signe Flottorp

Peer feedback activity over critical appraisal of a RCT in a postgraduate-level online unit of study in introductory clinical epidemiology

Naomi Noguchi | University of Sydney, Australia
view slides

Applying the behaviour change wheel to patient safety events to enhance Evidence-Based Practice in a pediatric tertiary care centre

Mari Somerville | IWK Health, Canada
view slides

The problem of citation bias: a scoping review

Hans Lund | Bergen University College, Norway
view slides

Characterising community hospitals vocations and quality of care delivered to generate evidence for informed decision-making

Chiara Reno | Università di Bologna, Italy
view slides

Impact of pragmatic trial design features on treatment effect estimates: the PragMeta project

Lars Hemkens | Univeristy Hospital Basel, Switzerland
view slides

Vitamin D for prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Transformation of a rapid review in a living systematic review

Juan Antonio Blasco-Amaro | Fundación Progreso y Salud, Spain
view slides

Why is UK emergency care in crisis? Scoping analysis of routine population data

Nicholas Steel | University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
view slides

Using consumer surveys to impact the scope of clinical practice guidelines

Sandra Kaplan | Rutgers University, USA
view slides

Parallel session B (14.30 – 16.30)

Chair: Peter Tugwell

Perceived value and self-reported implementation of teaching Evidence-Based Dentistry (EBD) in indonesian dental schools: a national survey

Dani Firman | Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
view slides

Medsyntax: a new, free and open source tool for improved literature research

Margot Gremmen-Verleg | Martini Ziekenhuis Groningen, The Netherlands
view slides

Using the Master Adaptive Learning model to develop curriculum that enhances Evidenced-Based Practice

Drew Keister | University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, USA
view slides

Evidence-based decision-making - development and piloting of an online training for nurses

Birte Berger-Höger | University of Bremen, Germany
view slides

Evidence-Based Practice and knowledge translation: in tandem or in tension?

André Bussières | Université du Québec a Trois Rivicres, Canada
view slides

Teaching EBM in general practice in the Netherlands; the power of a national network

Marie-Louise Bartelink | UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
view slides

Methods to improve digital literacy of health professionals to rapidly translate evidence into clinical practice

Christine East | La Trobe University, Australia
view slides

A qualitative study of students’ and teachers’ experiences with an online course in Evidence-Based Practice

Nina Rydland Olsen | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
view slides

CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (16.45)

Global models of partner engagement to rapidly implement evidence-based practice

Sally Fowler Davis (Anglia Ruskin Cambridge, UK) and Christine East (La Trobe University, Australia)

Network meta-analysis: the basics, certainty of evidence and interpretation using GRADE

Gordon Guyatt, McMaster University, Canada

Promoting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Publishing

Juan Victor Ariel Franco, BMJ Evidence Based Medicine, Germany

Pragmatic trials and randomized real world evidence on non-pharmaceutical interventions: challenges and solutions in conduct and assessment

Lars Hemkens (University of Basel, Switzerland), Perrine Janiaud (University of Basel, Switzerland) and John Ioannidis (Stanford University, USA)

Plenary session 3 (08.30 – 10.45)

Chair: John Ioannidis

KEYNOTE | Evolution and revolution: the future of evidence synthesis in Cochrane

Karla Soares-Weiser, Jordi Pardo Pardo | Cochrane, United Kingdom / Canada
view video

KEYNOTE | Quenching the thirst for access to living practice guidelines

Holger Schünemann | McMaster University, Canada
view slides | view photos  

Processes and methods for developing guidance in the setting of COVID-19: an international, cross-sectional study

Susan Norris | Oregon Health & Science University, USA
view slides | view photos  

Learning on the job: using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to support rapid review methods

Kristin Rogers | McMaster University, Canada
view slides | view photos    

A voice enabled point of care clinical search engine & clinical question capturing platform for Evidence-Based Medicine

Izhar Hasan | Rutgers University, USA
view slides | view photos    

The impact of Evidence-Based Practice guidelines adherence on clinical outcomes in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nofisat Ismaila | McMaster University, Canada
view slides | view photos    

Innovative methods for living and rapid evidence-informed clinical advice during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jennifer Yost | The American College of Physicians, USA
view slides | view photos      

Plenary session 4 (11.15 – 13.00)

Chair: Hans Lund

KEYNOTE | Tackling inequities and promoting a worldwide evidence-informed healthcare

Eleanor Ochodo | Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
view slides | view photos  

KEYNOTE | Building a sustainable ecosystem of evidence: new challenges after the pandemic

Nino Cartabellotta, Tiziano Innocenti | GIMBE Foundation, Italy
view slides | view photos      

Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine to large classes of undergraduate medical students: team-based learning versus small group discussionsl, a randomized controlled trial

Mona Nabulsi | American University of Beirut, Lebanon
view slides | view photos  

Perception and attitude towards EBM in the GP specialty training in the Netherlands: an explorative qualitative study

Susanne Claessen | Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
view slides

Effectiveness of educational interventions for improving information literacy in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

Mauricette Lee | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
view slides

Knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and behavior related to Evidence-Based Practice among healthcare professionals working in primary healthcare in Norway. Results from a cross-sectional survey

Nils Gunnar Landsverk | Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
view slides | view photos    

Parallel session C (14.30 – 16.30)

Chair: Eleanor Ochodo

The learning curve of bachelor nurses in a four day Evidence Based Practice course

Jessica Cramer-kruit | Martini Hospital, The Netherlands
view slides

Similar responsiveness of health-related quality of life outcome in patients with breast cancer undergoing systemic therapy

Carsten Juhl | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
view slides

A bibliometric analysis of statistical terms used in American Physical Therapy Association journals: pre- and post- COVID lockdown

Clarisa Martinez | University of Southern California, USA
view slides

Growth and quality of evidence for evaluating digital health interventions: an assessment of registered clinical trials

Fujian Song | University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
view slides

Making decision trees from guidelines

Mirte Tilma | the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation, The Netherlands
view slides

International collaboration to increase efficiency of updating evidence syntheses to support guidelines for disease prevention

Julian Little | University of Ottawa, Canada
view slides

Efficacy of an online training programme to support the application of the guideline evidence-based health information: a randomised controlled trial and process evaluation

Julia Lühnen | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
view slides

A protocol for the practical application of human rights in World Health Organization guideline development

Rebecca Thomas | The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
view slides

Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine to medical students using a Virtual Journal Club: a mixed method study

Paulo Pinho | Rutgers University, USA
view slides

Baseline imbalances in alirocumab and evolocumab trials: A meta-epidemiological study

Hendrika Luijendijk | University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands
view slides

Parallel session D (14.30 – 16.30)

Chair: Julie Tilson

Teaching overdiagnosis to medical students and family physicians within an Evidence-Based Medicine framework

Eddy Lang | University of Calgary, Canada
view slides

Opportunities and challenges in communicating evidence to nurse leaders: experiences of online courses in Finland and China

Maritta Välimäki | University of Turku, Finland
view slides

EBM teaching in a pandemic: a pre-post comparison of medical students' self-efficacy for dealing with scientific literature

Maria Noftz | University of Luebeck, Germany
view slides

Developing a web-based evidence-based research training school: challenges and considerations

Hrund Thorsteinsson | University of Iceland, Iceland
view slides

Implementation and evaluation of a new quality and patient safety module component across ten postgraduate nursing programmes: case study from the irish context

Aoife De Brun | University College Dublin, Ireland
view slides

Evidence-Based Practice education and programmatic assessment

Joan Verhoef | Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
view slides

The doctorate of physical therapy EBP curricular guidelines: uptake and challenges

Hilary Greenberger | Ithaca College, USA
view slides

CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (16.45)

Creating, publishing and dynamically updating trustworthy and living guidelines through MAGIC

Per Olav Vandvik, Leticia Kawano Dourado and Gordon Guyatt (MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation, Norway)

Teaching EBHC in an online environment: Moving from theory to practice

Anke Rohwer and Nasreen Jessani (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

The Importance of End-User Perspectives in Reducing Research Waste

Hans Lund (EBR Network, Norway), Jennifer Yost (EBR Network, USA) and Klara Brunnhuber (Elsevier Ltd. Clinical Solutions. EMEALAAP, UK)

Plenary session 5 (09.00 – 12.00)

Chair: David Nunan

KEYNOTE | How to improve patients' and consumers' involvement in healthcare decisions

Hilda Bastian | Cartoons and blogs at PLOS, and writes for The Atlantic, Australia
view slides | view photos    

KEYNOTE | AI evidence for use in clinical practice

Per Olav Vandvik | University of Oslo, Norway
view slides | view photos      

The impact of Evidence-Based Practice on daily nursing and allied health practice

Henriette Smid-nanninga | Martini Hospital, The Netherlands
view slides | view photos  

Adapting evidence-based peri-discharge complex interventions for reducing 30-day hospital readmissions among heart failure and COPD patients in Hong Kong

Vincent Chi Ho Chung | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
view slides | view photos  

The effectiveness of an integrated knowledge translation intervention on the implementation of NEWS2 in nursing homes. A pragmatic cluster RCT

Thomas Potrebny | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
view slides | view photos  

Guideline implementation using the knowledge to action model: a mixed methods analysis of therapist performance triangulated with therapist and patient perspectives

Julie Tilson | University of Southern California, USA
view slides | view photos    

Evidence to action: the role of issue briefs as a tool for discussion and NCD advocacy in five African countries

Nasreen Jessani | Stellenbosch University, South Africa
view slides | view photos    

Impact of health library information resources on patient care: a cross-sectional survey of irish healthcare personnel

Brendan Leen | Health Service Executive, Ireland
view slides | view photos

Closing ceremony (12.00 – 12.30)

Goodbye

Tiziano Innocenti, Elena Cottafava | GIMBE Foundation, Italy
view slides | view photos