Department of Nursing Education (DONE), KAHER Institute of Nursing Sciences, organized Virtual guest lecture on “SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS ” on 6th February 2021 at KAHER Institute of Nursing Sciences Belagavi on Go to Meeting App. Guest speaker was Dr. Ramesh C, Lecturer, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.

Introductory remarks was given by Dr. Sudha A Raddi, Principal, KAHER Institute of Nursing Sciences, Belagavi, with brief introduction of Dr Ramesh C and his achievements. Sir continued the session with what is Evidence Based Practice and also how the level of evidence helps in systematic reviews with Cochrane collaboration. The heart of EBP is the systematic Reviews. Sir also explained the difference in Systematic review and Meta-analysis with all the stages and steps in systematic review and how to develop protocol, its registration, methods, methodological guidelines and also how to develop search strategy with various electronic databases. Sir also included about the selection of studies, assessment of study quality and how to assess the bias with various examples of studies.

The session was very interactive with various questions from the participants.Total 205 faculties attended from Manipal College of Nursing, UG and PG students including all teaching faculty from KAHER INS Belagavi.