Learning Resources
CASP Diagnostic Test Study Appraisal
A checklist to help you systematically appraise and understand diagnostic test studies.
A network for students interested in evidence-based health care
A checklist to help you systematically appraise and understand diagnostic test studies.
Seven short slides giving a brief introduction to evidence-based medicine
The importance of Evidence Based Medicine has been recognized in many countries around the world for decades now. This recognition lead to the formation of organisations promoting EBM and to the introduction of courses preaching EBM principles in universities. Unfortunately, my country, Syria, isn’t one of these countries yet and here’s how it’s going to get there.
AllTrials, putting the evidence back in evidence-based medicine.
PharmAware is a network of students committed to the use of the best evidence in healthcare.
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.
This is a short, clearly written tutorial explaining the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine.
A short poem about regression to the mean illustrated with a few examples!
Evidence-Based Medicine is a growing field that has already made a tremendous impact on world healthcare. It’s only rational to teach it to medical students from the beginning, however, this is not always the case. Let me give you an example: me.
Bias is often an issue within clinical research, and we take many measures to avoid it. However, these measures are often neglected in preclinical animal studies, which give us the results upon which clinical trial study designs are based.
SPSS is a computer program used for statistical analysis. This tutorial will take you through a series of activities to help improve your SPSS skills.
In this medical statistics tutorial we will be looking at how the data that are collected by studies are summarized and presented in order to extract useful information. We will then start to look at how to analyse the data.
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If you’d like to blog for Students 4 Best Evidence, but are feeling unsure where to start, have a look at this list of suggested blog topics.
This blog introduces you to crossover trials with a clear explanation and example, together with some advantages and limitations of this study design.
Chiara has spent 3 months with Cochrane Sweden on the newly formed Cochrane International Mobility (CIM) programme. She provides an overview of the activities she’s been involved in and encourages others to find out more.