This blog introduces you to crossover trials with a clear explanation and example, together with some advantages and limitations of this study design.
This blog is a critical appraisal of a randomized controlled trial, assessing the effectiveness of an early rehabilitation intervention to enhance recovery during hospital admission for an exacerbation of chronic respiratory disease.
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.
Deevia takes a look at ‘effect modification’ and ‘confounding’ and explains the differences.
Observational research is an important method in evidence-based medicine, especially when it is performed to support or assess effectiveness results from randomized controlled trials. An unwanted (but not always observable) confounder in observational research is confounding by indication and should be eliminated from the research design when possible for the results to be meaningful. Let’s find out what this confounder is!
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