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Georgia Richards

Georgia is an Australian graduate with a Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Science) and First Class Honours in Pharmacology from the University of Queensland. Georgia has been accepted into the University of Oxford and will begin her DPhil (PhD) in Primary Health Care within the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in October 2017. In the meantime, Georgia is working as a Research Assistant in Australia at Wesley Medical Research within the Rural and Remote Health team. Here, she is working on a study that is examining medicine use in patients from rural and remote areas of Australia.

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My exciting 4 weeks at Cochrane UK

Georgia Richards spent 4 weeks at Cochrane UK learning more about evidence-based healthcare and the work of Cochrane. Here’s what she made of her time there…

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Attrition bias in randomized controlled trials

This blog takes a detailed look at the issue of attrition bias (bias that can arise when participants drop out of a study). It also describes measures that can be taken by researchers to minimize this bias (including different types of statistical analyses).

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Appraising the appraisal

Critical appraisal tools (CATs) are commonly used by students and researchers alike, as a way of judging a study’s quality. In this blog, Dennis Neuen addresses the need to appraise these tools and has also collated a list of 12 CATs from all over the world.