COCHRANE HEPATO-BILIARY
MEETING PROGRAMME
The 36th bi-annual Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group meeting will be held
Thursday, April 23, 2015, from 15.30 to 17:10 o’clock.
Location: Meeting room – Schubert 6, at Reed Messe, Vienna, Austria.
Attendance is free.
Chair: Christian Gluud, DK.
15:30 to 15:35
Welcome and program introduction.
C Gluud (DK)
15:35 to 16:10
Thresholds for statistical and clinical
significance in systematic reviews with
meta-analytic methods.
JC Jakobsen (DK), J Wetterslev
(DK), P Winkel (DK), T Lange
(DK), C Gluud (DK).
16:10 to 16:35
Transient elastography for diagnosis of
stages of hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis in
people with alcoholic liver disease.
Cochrane diagnostic test systematic review.
CS Pavlov (RO), G Casazza (I), D
Nikolova (DK), E Tsochatzis (UK),
Aƚ Burroughs (UK), VT Ivashkin
(RO), C Gluud (DK).
16:35 to 17:00
Capsule endoscopy for the diagnosis of
oesophageal varices in people with chronic
liver disease or portal vein thrombosis.
Cochrane diagnostic test systematic review.
A Colli (I), JC Gana (CL), D
Turner (IL), J Yap (CA), T AdamsWebber (CA), SC Ling (CA), G
Casazza (I).
17:00 to 17:10
Discussion. Closing remarks.
Improving healthcare decision-making globally, through systematic reviews of the
effects of healthcare interventions, published in The Cochrane Library.
The CHBG website <hbg.cochrane.org>