A nuts and bolts tutorial on how to read a forest plot, featuring a couple of exercises so that you can test your own understanding.
If you were asked, “What are the most important aspects to clinical trials to remember?” what would you convey to your audience? A project funded by the EU has tried to do just that in an educational video published late last year.
Open Access Button is an online tool to help the public deal with the frustration of encountering journal paywalls by mapping out incidences of paywalls and finding Open Access alternatives. This blog explores its background and its beginnings.
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This blog introduces you to the concept of confounding. There is a clear explanation and then examples and methods to minimise the effect of confounding during study design and statistical analysis.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can be subject to different kinds of bias. Read about different sources of bias in this blog and how much the magnitude of effect can be changed by the presence of bias.
This new webpage from Cochrane UK is aimed at students of all ages. What is evidence-based practice? What is ‘best available research evidence’? Which resources will help you understand evidence and evidence-based practice, and search for evidence?