課程資訊
課程名稱
系統回顧與統合分析
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 
開課學期
99-2 
授課對象
公共衛生學院  流預所流行病學組  
授課教師
林先和 
課號
EPM5053 
課程識別碼
849 U0240 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期四7,8(14:20~16:20) 
上課地點
公衛211 
備註
總人數上限:50人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/992meta 
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課程概述

This course will introduce students to the principles in conducting a systematic and quantitative review of randomised controlled trials and observational studies. The course will be structured by the critical steps in conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis, with particular emphasis on common pitfalls when doing such an analysis. A series of case studies of important public health and medical issues will be used as in-class examples. The course consists of lectures, computer labs using common software packages for meta-analysis, and a final group project resulting in a draft meta-analysis paper. 

課程目標
The goal of the course is to provide the students the general framework of conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis. At the end of the course the students are expected to be able to read and critically appraise the literature of systematic review and meta-analysis and to conduct his or her own meta-analysis. 
課程要求
The students are expected to have taken introductory-level courses of epidemiology and biostatistics. The final group project (with a group size of 2~4) will be a meta-analysis report that can be submitted for publication after further revision. 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
The readings of each lecture will be posted on the course schedule and uploaded to CEIBA.  
參考書目
1. Introduction to Meta-Analysis (Statistics in Practice), Michael Borenstein,
Larry Hedges, Julian Higgins, and Hannah Rothstein. Wiley, 2009.
2. Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta-analysis in Context, 2nd Edition,
Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith, and Douglas Altman, eds. BMJ Books, 2001.
(available as an eBook at NTU Library)
3. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, Julian Higgins,
Sally Green, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. (available online at
http://www.cochrane-handbook.org/) 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
class participation 
20% 
 
2. 
critique 
10% 
 
3. 
presentation 
10% 
 
4. 
final group project 
60% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/24  Introduction and course overview 
第2週
3/03  Literature review and searching methods - Dr. Chia-Hsuin Chang 
第3週
3/10  Issues of study design and analysis in clinical trials and observational studies 
第4週
3/17  1. Study critique
2. Selecting studies and extracting data
[Submit the study critique homework]  
第5週
3/24  Assessing the quality of included studies
[Submit the list of groups for the final project] 
第6週
3/31  1. Fixed-effect and random-effects models
2. Assessing heterogeneity  
第7週
4/07  Lab I (Stata) 
第8週
4/14  Student presentation: research topic, search protocol, and preliminary search results 
第9週
4/21  Subgroup analysis;
Meta-regression 
第10週
4/28  Publication bias and other reporting biases
- Dr. Chia-Hsuin Chang 
第11週
5/05  Lab II (Stata)
(if time allows: other statistical software for meta-analysis: RevMan, R) 
第12週
5/12  Network meta-analysis - Professor Yu-Kang Tu 
第13週
5/19  Meta-analysis of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests - Dr. Chien-Chang Lee 
第14週
5/26  Publication bias and other reporting biases 
第15週
6/02  Interpreting the results and reporting systematic review and meta-analysis 
第16週
6/09  Using systematic reviews in practice 
第17週
6/16  Group project presentation + concluding remarks [*Final report due*]