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.
This blog is an introduction to Research Priority Setting (RSP), also providing useful resources to understand how RSP exercises are carried out.
Concerns are being raised whether the medical field can play by the same rules as the other sciences when it comes to preprints. Yunus Gokkir discusses benefits and risks of preprints in this blog.
In the last of a series of three blogs about Thematic analysis (TA), Dolly Sud describes the six phases of TA and provides further reading and conclusions.
In the second of a series of three blogs about Thematic analysis (TA), Dolly Sud describes the 3 schools of TA and discusses some study design recommendations.
In the first of a series of three blogs about Thematic analysis, Dolly Sud introduces us to the topic and explains what a ‘theme’ is.
The blog explains what we mean by – and how to calculate – ‘sensitivity’, ‘specificity’, ‘positive predictive value’ and ‘negative predictive value’ in the context of diagnosing disease.
Carrying out a systematic, unbiased, transparent and reliable literature search is vital in the first stages of your research. This blog provides tips and useful information on which resources can help guide you in this process.
How does the literature compare to the actual rehabilitation performed in clinical practice after a meniscal repair?
How does the literature compare to the actual rehabilitation performed in clinical practice after subacromial decompression and rotator cuff repair?
The GRADE-CERQual approach is a transparent method of assessing the confidence of evidence from reviews of qualitative research. This blog from Dolly Sud introduces this type of assessment and provides useful further reading and resources.
This blog provides a detailed explanation of a dyad (something that consists of two elements or parts) and how this is used within the context of healthcare research.
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Another 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
The nuts and bolts 20 minute tutorial from Tim.
This new webpage from Cochrane UK is aimed at students of all ages. What is evidence-based practice? What is ‘best available research evidence’? Which resources will help you understand evidence and evidence-based practice, and search for evidence?