Reproducibility Rounds 

Stanford CTSA Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR), in collaboration with Columbia, Duke, Harvard, and Indiana, cordially invites you to the 7th Reproducibility Rounds webinar titled: How Reproducible is Health Science Research? 

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Speakers: 

Niklas Bobrovitz, MD, MSc, DPhil is a third-year emergency medicine resident in the FRCPC program and a research associate in the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of Calgary.

Stephana Moss, MSc, PhD, is an assistant professor and research chair in community-based research and health equity as well as the director of research in medicine in department of pediatrics at Dalhousie University.

Abstract: We will discuss the methods, results, and implications of a series of scoping and systematic reviews that synthesized evidence on the reproducibility of health sciences research. Specific aims of the projects included describing and categorizing methods and metrics used to quantify reproducibility, synthesizing estimates of the prevalence of reproducible research, and characterizing factors associated with reproducibility. We will describe our dataset of 1,340 articles with a focus on the sub-set with empirical data. We will report on the seven methods used for conducting reproducibility research, 38 metrics to quantify reproducibility, 180 estimates of the prevalence of reproducibility, and 234 factors associated with reproducibility which we grouped into modifiable and non-modifiable categories. Finally, we will discuss the significant heterogeneity in the evidence and challenges in synthesizing this data.