Appraisal of evidence and interpretation of results

Format: 2-16 Don’t confuse “statistical significance” with “importance”

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Language/s: 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

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Resource Link: View the Lesson

Target Audience: 2-9 Reviews of fair comparisons should be systematic

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2-8 Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons

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Short Description:

A 14-min talk on ‘Appraisal of the Evidence and Interpretation of the Results’, illustrated by 19 slides, with notes.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based
• 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar
• 1-8 More is not necessarily better

Details

Module 3 of the introduction to the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine produced by the Evidence-Based Medicine Unity funded through the Leonardo da Vinci programme of the European Union.