Learning Resources
Evidence Updates Database
A fantastic resource for easily getting hold of the best available evidence relating to your clinical speciality.
A network for students interested in evidence-based health care
A fantastic resource for easily getting hold of the best available evidence relating to your clinical speciality.
A checklist to help you systematically appraise and understand diagnostic test studies.
Seven short slides giving a brief introduction to evidence-based medicine
This is a short, clearly written tutorial explaining the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine.
A short poem about regression to the mean illustrated with a few examples!
Bias is often an issue within clinical research, and we take many measures to avoid it. However, these measures are often neglected in preclinical animal studies, which give us the results upon which clinical trial study designs are based.
This resource is a tutorial, providing a thorough introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). It describes in detail how to formulate specific questions when searching for evidence on a problem, how to find this evidence using online databases, and how to evaluate and appraise the evidence found. It also outlines the economic modelling and cost-assessments behind healthcare choices.
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If you’d like to blog for Students 4 Best Evidence, but are feeling unsure where to start, have a look at this list of suggested blog topics.
This blog introduces you to crossover trials with a clear explanation and example, together with some advantages and limitations of this study design.
Chiara has spent 3 months with Cochrane Sweden on the newly formed Cochrane International Mobility (CIM) programme. She provides an overview of the activities she’s been involved in and encourages others to find out more.