Participants in clinical trials may exit the study prior to having their results collated; in this case, what do we do with their results?
Is Family Therapy effective in the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa? Emily summarises a recent Cochrane Review in this blog and examines the evidence.
In this blog, Giorgio Karam examines the evidence on antihypertensive drugs for primary prevention – when do we start treatment?
This blog discusses the impact of humanitarian crises on mental health and provides a summary of a 2018 Cochrane Review which assessed the impact of psychological therapies on the mental health of people affected by these crises.
Publication bias remains a problem in health research. This blog by Andrés explores the issues we face and provides detail of the initiatives designed to address the problem.
This blog is a critical appraisal of a systematic review exploring the benefits of early mobilisation following hip or knee replacement surgery.
This blog discusses the issue of assessing ‘quality’ in research, both methodological and reporting quality. Jenni, the blog author, also points readers towards a paper she has co-authored: ‘Using quality assessment tools to critically appraise ageing research: a guide for clinicians’.
Introducing Cochrane Crowd, a collaborative volunteer effort to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence so that – ultimately – we can make better healthcare decisions. Find out how and why you should get involved.
Reviews tend to provide summaries of the literature on a topic. However, there are differences between them in terms of the stages and applicability of findings. This post will highlight such differences between traditional reviews and systematic reviews.
This article highlights the importance of the results of Cochrane’s new systematic review on the efficacy of Methylphenidate for ADHD in children and adolescents.
Katherine Stagg explores the impact of language bias and how the language of publications can affect our evidence base.
Angel Wong introduces the Cochrane Textbook of Neurology, an on-line library for Cochrane systematic reviews on neurology and neurosurgery.
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.
YouTube video series by Dr. Aaron Carroll called Healthcare Triage, where his motto is, “To the Research!”
Robert Kemp reports on how a Cochrane review group has, with some success, been working to speed up an important stage of the review production process by introducing crowdsourcing methods to the arduous task of citation screening.
From Richard’s reviews, we look at a systematic review of management in poorly controlled type 2 diabetes and a study evaluating progress in reducing global childhood mortality.
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.
Danny reviews the book Testing Treatments that aims to help everyone understand fair tests, how to ask questions and understand research.
Danny has reviewed the US Cochrane Center’s online course that aims to help you understand the basics of evidence-based healthcare and why it’s important.
Systematic reviews take a long time to produce, and are often not up to date. In PLOS Medicine last month, a ‘living systematic review’ was proposed, to reduce the gap between evidence and practice.
Evidence-based medicine is not just about applying a systematic review letter for letter – but the ‘art’ of evidence-based medicine is in applying the science.
PubMed Health – a good place to start your search for health-based evidence
Evidence Aid provides brief summaries of evidence to assist decision makers in disasters and other humanitarian emergencies.
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.
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).
David writes about the UK Government’s recent plans to introduce health checks.
Alice has revisited the cord clamping review, she blogged about a couple of months ago…
Can probiotics prevent diarrhoea? A new Cochrane review says they can. This blog also walks through a few of the features of Cochrane reviews.
Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) provides many tools to help you read and appraise evidence. This tool will help you make sense of the information provided in any systematic review so you can conclude if that review is valid and reliable.
This slideshow shows how the data generated in trials and analysed in systematic reviews can be applied in clinical practice.
This slideshow from the journal EBM may help introduce you to the role of Cochrane reviews in EBM.
We can never be let down by the high caliber work of the Cochrane Library but its not just reviews that this site can offer…
Actress Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy has created a media buzz over the past few days. But is there evidence that supports this decision?
An essay discussing the underpinnings of EBM and the difficulties of using it in clinical practice
Statistically funny – the blog that combines cartoons, humour, and demystifying evidence-based medicine.
This is a tutorial that looks at the statistical basis of randomised controlled trials, the theory behind meta-analyses and how to read a meta-analysis
This is an information skills tutorial that provides the opportunity for students to learn more about searching for information
This is a website from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, providing a list of databases and research tools for primary papers and secondary (reviews etc.) Also provides tools for constructing systematic reviews.
The 2007 NICE guidelines recommend that the umbilical cord be cut very soon after birth. However, in the face of evidence in favour of delayed cord clamping, these guidelines may soon be changing.
A free, multilingual database. It includes systematic reviews, overviews of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence.
The EBM Pyramid shows the various levels of information available in evidence-based medicine.
This a free database from the Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility (ARIF) at the University of Birmingham, UK. The majority of reviews relate to the effectiveness of drugs, devices or other healthcare interventions.
Powerpoint on young peoples involvement with systematic reviews.
CRD in York have combined three databases for systematic review, economic evaluations, tech assessments and summaries. It includes all Cochrane reviews and protocols.
A guideline database for those based in the UK, USA, Canada & New Zealand.
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