In February 2023, Rachel Richardson and Emma Axon from the Methods Support Unit discussed good practice and common errors when using the Risk of Bias 2 tool in Cochrane reviews. Recording is available here

In January 2023, the Methods Support Unit web clinic hosted Toby Lasserson to look at approaching Background sections as a way to help authors set the scene for their research question and methods. Recording is here

Sign-up now for our next Methods Support Unit web clinic which will be held on 12th January 2023 at 9am GMT. Toby Lasserson, Deputy Editor in Chief at Cochrane, will be discussing how to approach writing a Background section. Posted by Rachel Richardson

Leslie Choi from Cochrane joined the Methods Support Unit in their December 2022 web clinic to discuss assessing imprecision and inconsistency in GRADE. MSU Web Clinic: Assessing imprecision and inconsistency in GRADE

Welcome to Dr Emma Axon, new Evidence Synthesis Methodology Editor in the Methods Support Unit

Sign-up now for our next Methods Support Unit web clinic which will be held on 8th December 2022 at 9am GMT. Leslie Choi, Evidence Synthesis Development Editor at Cochrane, will be discussing how to assess imprecision and inconsistency using GRADE methodology.  Posted by Rachel Richardson

Jo McKenzie, Sue Brennan and Simon Turner from Monash University joined the Methods Support Unit in their November 2022 web clinic to discuss the development of materials to facilitate implementation of methods for presentation and statistical synthesis when data are not amenable to meta-analysis (Synthesis WIthout Meta-analysis) MSU Web Clinic November 2022: Development of materials to facilitate implementation of methods 

Are you a statistical editor or a statistician supporting a Cochrane group or a Cochrane Review author team? We're inviting you to join our 2022 online training programme run by Cochrane Statistical Methods Group. The programme consists of five pre-recorded video lectures, with six live virtual workshops scheduled between November 22nd and December 8th, on the following topics:

The recording from our latest web clinic is available here. Dr Marty Chaplin from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine gave a fascinating presentation on the interpretation of subgroup analyses and expertly answered a variety of questions

Welcome Sofia Tsokani and Afroditi Kanellopoulou! They join the Methods Support Unit as Statistics Editors.  Their role is to support the Cochrane community by undertaking statistical peer review, as well as helping with individual queries.