Evidence Reviews

Acute effects of single and multiple level thoracic manipulations on chronic mechanical neck pain: a critical appraisal

Mechanical neck pain is prevalent in the general population. Adjusting the spine (spinal manipulative therapy) is complex and controversial, largely based on the Chiropractic concept of a joint “subluxation”. This blog is a critical appraisal of a study examining the acute effects of a single and multiple level thoracic manipulation on chronic mechanical neck pain.

Evidence Reviews

Health in the Media: Secrets of Ageing

This week the media ran multiple stories about a research study that may help us crack the secrets of ageing. Heidi takes a look at these articles to see if humans could be eternally youthful in the near future.

Tutorials and Fundamentals

COMPare – The CEBM Outcome Monitoring Project

Outcome switching is a major problem in clinical trial reporting that distorts the evidence doctors and patients use to make real-world clinical decisions. Numerous prevalence studies have already shown this to be an extremely common problem, even in top medical journals. However the CEBM Outcome Monitoring Project (COMPare) has taken a new approach: writing to journals to correct the record on individual trials, in the hope that individual accountability and open data sharing will help solve this important problem. Our main question was: how will the journals respond? This blog tells the story of COMPare so far.

Tutorials and Fundamentals

Traditional reviews vs. systematic reviews

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.

News

We’ve been shortlisted in the UK Blog Awards 2016!

Students 4 Best Evidence and it’s sister blog Evidently Cochrane have been shortlisted in the UK Blog Awards 2016 in the ‘education (company)’ and ‘health (company)’ categories respectively!

Evidence Reviews

First-line medicines for hypertension: The good, the bad, the ugly… and the best

Managing hypertension is complex, involves lifestyle modifications such as physical activity and dietary interventions, as well as drugs. Here, we highlight the evidence from Cochrane about which drug is better as a first-line therapy.

Evidence Reviews

Health in the Media: Curing Leukaemia

This week the media proclaimed that scientists had made a breakthrough that could ‘halt leukaemia in its tracks’ but what’s the evidence?

Evidence Reviews

Airway clearance techniques for bronchiectasis: evidence gap

There is lack of evidence on acute bronchiectasis regarding the use of airway clearance techniques. What is the impact of evidence gap? And what does current evidence say about the use of ACTs for stable bronchiectasis? Read more to to find out.

Evidence Reviews

Effectiveness of individually tailored pre-arthroplasty rehabilitation

According to Scottish arthroplasty project ‘Biennial report 2014’, the number of arthroplasty operations has increased over the past 7 years (7609 hip and 7169 knee arthroplasties were performed in 2013) costing the NHS on average £7000 per patient (Scottish Arthroplasty Project 2014). This blog is a critical appraisal of a study which looked at importance of providing patient-cantered care for your patient right from the initial appointment and the positive effects it can have on patient outcome and cost efficiency.

Tutorials and Fundamentals

Eminence-Based Medicine vs. Evidence-Based Medicine

We hear the word “evidence-based medicine” too often but why is evidence-based medicine important? And what’s the difference between eminence-based medicine? This post addresses those questions and give some examples of both evidence and eminence-based medicine practice.

Evidence Reviews

New Cochrane evidence on Ritalin for ADHD

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.

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