Evidence Reviews
Delayed cord clamping revisited
Alice has revisited the cord clamping review, she blogged about a couple of months ago…
A network for students interested in evidence-based health care
Alice has revisited the cord clamping review, she blogged about a couple of months ago…
Reporting and discussing clinical trials clearly and accurately can be challenging, both for journalists, and also for students. Ruth Francis has compiled 11 top tips to make it easier.
Revealing the truth behind rates, ratios and risk with QMP statistics tutorials. This is one of a series that helps with understanding of statistics and study design.
Understanding uncertainty is a site from the Winton programme based at the University of Cambridge, UK, that encourage healthy criticism of the statistics the media gives us.
QMP Statistics tutorials talks you through chi-squared and t-tests – a useful resource for different statistical levels.
Faculty of 1000 is a quadruple resource that allows you to search for articles, publish your own material in an open-access journal, and provides you with a place to store your posters and presentation slides. Check it out!
The Trip database provides a new way of searching for evidence, including useful features like sorting by evidence quality.
TTextras is a feature of the Testing Treatments interactive website which provides open educational resources such as games, podcasts, and videos that help people understand more about fair tests of treatments.
Conducting trials where the trialled therapeutic must be commenced urgently raises specific practical and ethical problems. Here I discuss a recent New England Journal of Medicine paper looking at the use of intracranial pressure monitoring for severe traumatic brain injury as an example of how these issues may affect a trial’s utility and how this can be managed.
Forum For Medical Students [INFORMER] is a medical student’s organization aimed at promoting research and evidence-based medicine among undergraduate medical students.
David takes a look at the evidence behind health news in the media. 20th June.
David explains risk and number needed to treat using an article from the New England Journal of Medicine
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A beginner’s guide to standard deviation and standard error: what are they, how are they different and how do you calculate them?
When you see a claim that a treatment or intervention has no effect, it is important to examine the evidence as this may be a misleading statement.
This blog provides a detailed overview of the concept of ‘blinding’ in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). It covers what blinding is, common methods of blinding, why blinding is important, and what researchers might do when blinding is not possible. It also explains the concept of allocation concealment.