This webinar - held on 21 February 2024 - was produced by the International Association for the Study of Pain's Methodology, Evidence Synthesis, and Implementation Special Interest Group (MESISIG).
                                                                                 
Accurate knowledge of harms resulting from healthcare interventions is critical to safeguard public health. Unfortunately, harm assessment is often inadequate in pain research, likely to underestimate the risk of interventions and misinform clinical and policy decisions.

This webinar aimed to highlight key methodological issues regarding the measurement of harms in randomized trials and systematic reviews, and provided an overview of optimal methods for harm assessment in pain research.

Participants included:
-- Christina Abdel Shaheed, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia
Strengthening the reporting of harms in clinical trials
-- Riaz Qureshi, PhD, MS, University of Colorado, USA
Optimal methods to assess harms in systematic reviews
-- Georgia Richards, DPhil, Bsc, University of Oxford, UK
Development of the Preventable Deaths Tracker and the power of considering case reports from coroners when understanding harms in healthcare

-- Michael Ferraro, Bsc, Neuroscience Research Australia (moderator)
-- Neil O'Connell, PhD, Brunel University, London, UK (moderator)