Members of the Bias Methods Group and people interested in bias may keep an eye out for the following sessions at the 2018 Cochrane Colloquium*:

Saturday 15 September

13:30-17:30 David Moher Cochrane Methods Symposium: Bias and Beyond (registration now closed, please email methods@cochrane.org if you wish to be placed on the waiting list)

Sunday 16 September

11.00-12.30 Workshop: How to use the GRADE approach to assess, interpret and present evidence

11:00-12:30 Workshop: Introduction to ROBIS, a tool to assess the risk of bias in a systematic review

11:00-12:30 Workshop: Using clinical trial data to restore the trial literature: what and how to ‘RIAT’?

14:00-15:30 Workshop: Assessing risk of bias (RoB) in randomized trials: RoB 2.0

14:00-15:30 Workshop: Bias in meta-epidemiological studies: an exchange of ideas

16:00-17:30 Oral session: Investigating bias (1)

16:00-17:30 Workshop: Systematic reviews of prognostic studies II: risk of bias assessment in systematic reviews of prognostic studies  

Monday 17 September

07:30-08:45 Cochrane Bias Methods Group open meeting

11.00-12.30 Workshop: ‘Screen For Me’: harnessing the efficiencies of machine learning and Cochrane Crowd to identify randomised trials for Cochrane Reviews

14:00-15:30 Oral session: Investigating bias (2)  

14:00-15:30 Workshop: The ROB-ME (Risk Of Bias due to Missing Evidence) tool: a new tool for assessing reporting biases in evidence syntheses 

Tuesday 18 September

11:00- 12:30 Oral session: Investigating bias (3)

14:00-15:30 Workshop: Using ROBINS-I to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions  

*Please note that this is not an exclusive list. Other session not included in this list may concern bias-related issues.