This blog presents the abstract of a literature review on the topic of ‘Paramedics performance of delivering care in a mental health crisis’.
This blog presents the abstract of a literature review and critical appraisal on the topic of ‘Common themes surrounding the topic of electrocardiogram (ECG) lead placement’.
This blog presents the abstract of a literature review and critical appraisal on the topic of ‘Cardiovascular disease in a shift working population of Paramedics’.
How effective is oil pulling in improving oral health? The Ayurvedic technique of oil pulling has become a popular DIY home remedy, promising to cure a plethora of oral health problems. But pulling out the research behind these claims highlights the lack of evidence.
Explaining basic knowledge of statistics with fun visualization tools and interactive functions.
How effective is food as medicine? In April, the media ran several stories about a research study exploring the link between dietary fibre intake and breast cancer. Let’s try and digest the evidence.
In this blog, Roshan, a final year medical student at Monash University, provides his own summary of a 2018 Cochrane Systematic Review “Antipsychotics for treatment of delirium in hospitalised non-ICU patients”.
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.
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This blog takes a detailed look at the issue of attrition bias (bias that can arise when participants drop out of a study). It also describes measures that can be taken by researchers to minimize this bias (including different types of statistical analyses).
Critical appraisal tools (CATs) are commonly used by students and researchers alike, as a way of judging a study’s quality. In this blog, Dennis Neuen addresses the need to appraise these tools and has also collated a list of 12 CATs from all over the world.
The nuts and bolts 20 minute tutorial from Tim.