YHEC Training Event: Trials Registers, Trials Results Registers and Other Research Registers

Trials Registers, Trials Results Registers and Other Research Registers: Challenges and Opportunities 

University of York, 18 February 2010

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Increasing national and international interest in identifying, recording and promoting access to healthcare trials and their results has seen the development of large numbers of trials registers, and more recently, results registers.  Trials registers provide information on current and recently completed research and results registers provide information on completed research.  This type of information is useful for research commissioning, health technology assessments, systematic reviews and product development.

Trials registers, results registers and other research registers are developing quickly and provide challenges in terms of identification, efficient searching and record management.  This one day training course will highlight the background to the development of trial registers and trials results registers, will discuss the types of registers and their relative coverage, and will offer practical advice on searching registers and managing register records. 

The training course presenters will be Julie Glanville and Carol Lefebvre.

Julie Glanville is Project Director - Information Services at York Health Economics Consortium.  Carol Lefebvre is the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre.  Julie and Carol are co-authors of the searching chapter of the Cochrane Handbook and have many years' experience of identifying trials evidence.

By the end of the training day, participants will have:

• An awareness of why trials registers, results registers and other research registers are being produced and their value for a range of research activity;
• An understanding of the key registers, their coverage and overlap;
• An awareness of the searching and record management issues that they pose.

Who should attend?

This study day would be of interest to Librarians, information professionals and researchers seeking to understand the rationale for research and results registers and to make better use of them in their research.

Training day overview

9.45: Welcome and introduction to the day

10.00: What are trials registers? Background and brief history (Presentation)

10.45: Why do we need to know about ongoing research? (Exercise and presentation)

11.30: Coffee

11.45: Key trials and results registers (Presentation)

12.30: Other (non-trial) research registers (Presentation)

1.00: Lunch

1.45: Searching issues (Presentation)

2.15: Searching trials and results registers (Exercise)

3.00: Practical issues: downloading results, documenting searches (Presentation)

3.30: Coffee

3.45: Downloading results and documenting searches (Exercise)

4.15: Discussion and final questions

4.30: Close

Location

The study day will be held in Alcuin College, University of York.

Registration fees

• Cochrane Trials Search Coordinators: £150 (plus £26.25 VAT)
• Other participants: £195 (plus £34.13 VAT)

The registration fee includes tea and coffee, lunch and course documentation.

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For more information please contact Julie Glanville (e-mail: jmg1@york.ac.uk) or alternatively contact YHEC Support Services, tel: 01904-433620).