Johannes B. Reitsma
Health Sciences and Primary Care
Cochlear
Denmark
Biography
Johannes B. Reitsma is Associate Professor at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. His key interests include the generation of evidence to improve decision-making in practice about the use of drugs, surgical treatments, devices, eHealth innovations, medical tests and biomarkers. He has designed numerous primary studies and also participated in many systematic reviews. He is actively involved in education and training, including the development of post-graduate courses on evidence synthesis, giving workshops on Cochrane Colloquia, and being a member on the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group & the Screening and Diagnostic Tests Methods Group.
Research Interest
He is actively involved with writing the Cochrane Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews and is the principal author of the Chapter “Assessing Methodological Quality”. He has contributed to a number of DTA specific steering groups and panels. His research focus is on evidence synthesis, especially on more complex forms of meta-analyses, including individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, combining data from studies with different designs, and investigating subgroup effects in (IPD) meta-analyses. The improvement of research methods has led to novel methods and tools that are currently widely used and recommended.
