The Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group (PMG) has been working on the upcoming Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Studies and has already developed a great deal of guidance on the planning, conduct and reporting of prognosis reviews.
In this web clinic, Professor Carl Moons and Dr Anneke Damen from the PMG gave a brief overview of the different types of prognosis reviews, the steps in conducting a prognosis review and an overview of the guidance that is already available.
This session was delivered in March 2025 and below you will find the videos from the webinar, together with the accompanying slides to download [PDF]. Recordings from other Methods Support Unit web clinics are available here.
Part 1: Introduction to prognosis reviews
Part 2: Steps of a prognosis review
Part 3: Questions and answers
Presenter Bios
Prof. Dr. Carl Moons is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and the former Director of Research at the Julius Center, UMC Utrecht. He is Figure Head/Director Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the UMC Utrecht and developed the AI strategy of the UMC Utrecht, establishing 5 dedicated AI-Health labs (AI Living Technologies and Regenerative Medicine; AI Molecular Medicine; AI Imaging and Imaging guided interventions; AI Methods and Fundamentals; AI Healthy Living and Prevention). He is also Director of Health Innovations Netherlands, an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University in the US, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Studies, Editor-in-Chief of BMC Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, and a convenor of the Prognosis Methods Group.
Dr. Anneke Damen is an Assistant Professor at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care. She obtained her PhD in clinical epidemiology in 2018 at the University Medical Center Utrecht (Thesis ‘Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of prediction model studies: methods and applications’). Her research focuses on methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of prediction models. She works for Cochrane Netherlands, is the coordinator of the Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group, and is associate editor for the journal Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods.