Online Journal Club – Improve Your Critical Appraisal Skills!

Reserve your spot now for Webinar 1

Webinar 1: Can the use of text message reminders improve vaccination rates?
October 13, 2016
1:00—2:00 EDT

By signing up here, you are reserving your spot in the journal club.

This webinar will be hosted on WebEx. We will send you a link to join the session prior to the webinar.

Host:

Dr. Donna Ciliska, Senior KT Advisor with the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools.

Featured article:

Melissa S. Stockwell, Carolyn Westhoff, Elyse Olshen Kharbanda, Celibell Y. Vargas, Stewin Camargo, David K. Vawdrey, and Paula M. Castaño. Influenza Vaccine Text Message Reminders for Urban, Low-Income Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Public Health: February 2014, Vol. 104, No. S1, pp. e7-e12. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301620 http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301620

Critical appraisal tool:

We will use the CASP Randomized Controlled Trail Checklist.Download the CASP tool here: http://media.wix.com/ugd/dded87_40b9ff0bf53840478331915a8ed8b2fb.pdf

Be sure to download the article and tool prior to the webinar.

Journal club fundamentals:

Participation is limited to allow for and encourage small-group discussion. Our goal is to have very interactive 1-hour sessions, so the groups will be kept fairly small.

By signing up for this webinar, you agree to:

• Read the journal article in question prior to the webinar;
• Be prepared to actively contribute to the discussion. Remember, you do not need to be correct (we are all here to learn!), but you must be willing to share your opinions and judgements with other journal club participants.

NOTE: If the response is great, we will add more sessions. Your participation will be confirmed, possibly with an alternative date, if numbers warrant it.