What is the evidence that having high cholesterol, or high LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels, increases your chance of getting heart disease?
In this blog, Sasha Lawson-Frost explores what moral values underpin or justify the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine, specifically in response to a recent article which stated “the policy side of evidence-based medicine is basically a form of rule utilitarianism”.
Debiasing is about trying to account for and eliminate the influence of biases on our decision-making. This blog discusses effective debiasing techniques.
This blog discusses the issue of ‘too much medicine’; a growing concern in the medical community regarding the over-diagnosis, over-treatment and over-testing of various pathologies. In particular, focusing on the overestimation of risk and the base rate fallacy.
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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.
This page provides a brief introduction to Cochrane and highlights some of the Cochrane platforms you can participate in, connect with, and learn from. Participate in Cochrane’s mission to produce and promote trusted health evidence.
Conducting successful research requires choosing the appropriate study design. This article describes the most common types of designs conducted by researchers.