Advances in technology now allow huge amounts of data to be handled simultaneously. Katherine takes a look at how this can be used in healthcare and how it can be exploited.
Key message: Evidence Based Medicine is useful for informing healthcare professionals what works, what doesn’t, and helping to determine if the benefits outweigh the harms, but it’s far from perfect. There are valuable lessons learned about research that we can share across disciplines. What is the Evidence Based Medicine problem? In 2005, Dr. John Ioannidis, a well-known meta-researcher, published an article in PLoS Medicine called Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. This article caused a splash and has been making
The Systematic Review is the highest level of research design and brings available evidence to find an answer to a research question. Read Danny’s blog.
Danny takes us on a tour of the Evidence-Based Medicine Pyramid and the wonders within.
How do you treat pelvic pain….
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!
Another 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
Anna reminds us of the value of observational evidence in low income countries.
Systematic reviews aren’t cheap or quick – Alice looks at some suggestions from the blogs of Jon Brassey from TRIP and Mona Nasser from Cochrane.
Reporting and discussing clinical trials clearly and accurately can be challenging, both for journalists, and also for students. Ruth Francis has compiled 11 top tips to make it easier.
Revealing the truth behind rates, ratios and risk with QMP statistics tutorials. This is one of a series that helps with understanding of statistics and study design.
David takes a look at the evidence behind health news in the media. 20th June.
A meta-epidemiological study published in the BMJ last month has found that smaller trials consistently report larger effect sizes.
Beginners often get confused with odds ratio and relative risk, which are almost used in same sense.
A simple way to understand both.
CASPin provide many tools to help you systematically read evidence and this specific tool will help you make sense of any case control study and assess its validity in a quick and easy way.
A checklist to help you systematically appraise and understand diagnostic test studies.
This is a short, clearly written tutorial explaining the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine.
In this medical statistics tutorial we will be looking at how the data that are collected by studies are summarized and presented in order to extract useful information. We will then start to look at how to analyse the data.
Brilliant reworking of Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ song but to do with EBM!
This is a great website for those who want to learn more about the process of shared decision making. The website uses case studies to set out the pros and cons of each treatment option.
CASP have created a from to help make sense of the information given in Cohort Studies.
The EBM Pyramid shows the various levels of information available in evidence-based medicine.
Would you like to do peer reviews on biomedical literature? Here is a free online course by the Cochrane Eyes & Vision Group.
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