Learn why effective risk communication in public health matters and where you can get started in learning how to better communicate research evidence.
The role of social media in the COVID-19 crisis relative to the contribution of scientific research globally.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical health researchers face the delicate balancing act of producing rigorous, reliable research, but doing so in as short a timeframe as possible.
Carryover effects can affect outcomes and results of research, and are important to consider, particularly in the design phase of a study.
Canada is in the midst of an opioid crisis and prescriptions have something to do with it. The question is, what? Lauren Gorfinkel discusses the need for new research which adequately investigates the ways in which prescription opioids enter and influence the lives of not only those who are prescribed opioids, but those that are not.
This blog provides an introduction to sample size and power; what it is, why it’s important to consider when designing a study, and how to carry out a power calculation.
Confused about Hazard Ratios and their confidence intervals? This blog provides a handy tutorial.
Patients, carers and members of the public offer a unique perspective in health and social care research, adding to the expertise of the research team. Improving healthcare services will only be possible by involving the people accessing those services.
Deevia takes a look at ‘effect modification’ and ‘confounding’ and explains the differences.
In the third in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Mathura Mahendren looks at Health Systems Evidence, an information resource for people interested in public health policy.
In the second in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Harkanwal Randhawa examines Health Evidence™, a database of systematic reviews around the subject of public health.
In the first in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Mathura Mahendren gets to know the Optimum Aging Portal, a resource for communicating evidence-based ways of staying healthy in older age.
YouTube video series by Dr. Aaron Carroll called Healthcare Triage, where his motto is, “To the Research!”
Does industry sponsorship of research inevitably lead to bias? And does this bias extend to government advice and policy?
Richard takes a look at Greenhalgh and colleagues, BMJ article “Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?”.
Is this your first contact with evidence-based healthcare? This course is a perfect start…
The Lancet has recently published a series of papers looking at problems with waste and inefficiency in research, with recommendations for how these could be overcome.
Writing and publishing a health paper? We all know that it´s not so easy. If you have ever wished to find some tools and guides, this is for you!
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!
David blogs about Open Access. The practice of free, online, immediate access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research with full re-use rights
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is a free database at the US Department of Health & Human Services. It provides summaries of evidence, clinical guidelines and more.
Need something for your EBM task? Check out EBHC wiki!! You will find it there..
The NHS Evidence website provides a great starting block for many clinical questions, gathering information from several NHS websites as well as several journals.
A website providing a detailed guide to the steps researchers have to take before, during and after a clinical study.
A good website from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) – with a wide range of tools to help with evidence-based research
Download this form if you would like help reading and making sense of qualitative research.
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.
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