This course is thought for health care professionals who use the GRADE system or health care professionals who have already attended the basic GRADE workshop.

Prerequisites to attend:

- To understand publications in English.

- Basic knowledge of critical appraisal of clinical trials.

- Personal laptop to work with the GRADEpro software.

- Experience in applying the GRADE system.

Objectives:

- To understand how the GRADE methodology provides an appropriate approach that includes the requirement for a simple and manageable system as well as the need for a broad integration of all important aspects of decision making.

- To understand and apply the GRADEpro software.

- To create evidence profiles on the base of systematic reviews, clinical guidelines or HTA-reports using the GRADE methodology.

- To create several evidence profiles.

The course language is German.

External link for more information:

http://www.cochrane.de/workshops