The EU Trials Tracker, devised by the EBM DataLab at the University of Oxford, tracks which trials on the European Union Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) have reported their results within a year of completion. Learn more about this tracker and how you need to take action.
In this blog, Norah uses Richard Lehman’s review of journals for the BMJ to find and summarize the new and interesting publications in medical journals.
Ever heard of the Placebo effect’s evil twin; the Nacebo Effect? A harmful reaction from a harmless treatment. Read Danny’s blog to know more.
Do placebos really promote physiological change or is it just the patient’s perspective? How are placebos used in practice? And how ethical is it to use placebos in clinical trials?
Richard takes a look at Greenhalgh and colleagues, BMJ article “Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?”.
Danny takes a look at Lifestyle Redesign®, a program that promotes mental well-being across community-based living elderly in a cost-effective manner.
In a BMJ editorial last month, Des Spence suggested that EBM may be broken. Alice takes a closer look.
Adam takes a look at possible treatment for chronic shoulder pain, through critical appraisal of a randomized control trial.
A fantastic resource for easily getting hold of the best available evidence relating to your clinical speciality.
Whether you couldn’t get enough of the rolling coverage of the royal birth, or couldn’t wait for it to be over, I have here for you a roundup of some of the recent systematic reviews and evidence related to pregnancy and childbirth (royal or otherwise).
The BMJ Open Data Campaign seeks to make the data from unpublished trials available, so that decisions can be based on all the evidence.
A meta-epidemiological study published in the BMJ last month has found that smaller trials consistently report larger effect sizes.
A short article on the uses of Facebook friend finder…
The BMJ has on its website a series of articles on how to read papers, including clear explanations of the statistics commonly used and common pitfalls found in studies.
AllTrials, putting the evidence back in evidence-based medicine.
12 questions to help you make sense of economic evaluations.
The Clinical Evidence database is from the BMJ Evidence Centre. It is a fee-based resource for medical professionals to learn, teach and practice evidence-based medicine.
In recent years, especially due to the large scale efforts of the WHO, along with multiple stakeholders including the governments of the affected nations, the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) have come under global spotlight. In January 2013, the WHO published the “Sustaining the drive to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases: second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases”1 which charted the progress achieved in the fight against NTDs.
This one hour online module on the core principles of EBM aimed at a wide range of healthcare personnel from GP’s to medical students. To access BMJ learning requires a subscription, although if you have a BMA membership it’s available for free.
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