The MEDICS initiative aims to ensure a fundamental level of medical statistics and risk communication for medical students. Lathan Liou, founder of MEDICS, invites S4BE students to get involved.
The CONSORT statement aims at comprehensive and complete reporting of randomized controlled trials. This blog introduces you to the statement and why it is an important tool in the research world.
The Cochrane Climate-Health Working Group welcome new members, from any part of the world. No particular background or expertise with climate change is needed, just an interest in learning more.
In the second of a series of blogs about economic analysis, Ana María explains the common techniques used in economic evaluation.
Learn more about the measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median) and how these need to be critically appraised when reading a paper.
In the first of a series of blogs about economic analysis, Ana María introduces us to the topic and why it is needed.
This blog presents the abstract of a literature review and critical appraisal on the topic of intraosseous vascular access in cardiac arrest.
In this blog, Vighnesh provides an outline of multivariate analysis for beginners to this topic.
The Trip database has recently had a major revamp so now is a good time to look again at what Trip is and how it can be of benefit to S4BE members.
The Cochrane Early Career Professionals group are looking for members to join the Steering Group. Applications close on Tuesday 20th July.
Searching clinical trial registries is an essential tool to improve the value of systematic reviews. This is a resource review on a paper that describes whether and how this is done in published systematic reviews of pharmacotherapy and assesses their quantitative impact on meta-analysis.
What is data dredging, how does it affect the p-value and what is its impact on the world around us?
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Conducting successful research requires choosing the appropriate study design. This article describes the most common types of designs conducted by researchers.
A beginner’s guide to standard deviation and standard error: what are they, how are they different and how do you calculate them?
The nuts and bolts 20 minute tutorial from Tim.