Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
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Evidence for everyday health choices
A 17-min slide cast by Lynda Ware, on the history of EBM, what Cochrane is, and how to understand the real evidence behind the headlines.
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Sunn Skepsis
Denne portalen er ment å gi deg som pasient råd om kvalitetskriterier for helseinformasjon og tilgang til forskningsbasert informasjon.
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Strictly Cochrane: a quickstep around research and systematic reviews
An interactive resource explaining how systematic and non-systematic reviews differ, and the importance of keeping reviews up to date.
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Teach Yourself Cochrane
Tells the story behind Cochrane and the challenges finding good quality evidence to produce reliable systematic reviews.
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Dodgy academic PR
Ben Goldacre: 58% of all press releases by academic institutions lacked relevant cautions and caveats about the methods and results reported
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Over there! An 8 mile high distraction made of posh chocolate!
Ben Goldcare illustrates strategies used by vested interests to discredit research with ‘inconvenient’ results.
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Brain imaging studies report more positive findings than their numbers can support. This is fishy.
Ben Goldacre explores how twice as many positive findings as could realistically have been expected from the data reported may have occurred
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Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
Bill Caley’s 26 slides with notes used as an ‘Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine’.
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Appraisal of evidence and interpretation of results
A 14-min talk on ‘Appraisal of the Evidence and Interpretation of the Results’, illustrated by 19 slides, with notes.
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A way to teach about systematic reviews
81 slides used by David Nunan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford) to present ‘A way to teach about systematic reviews’.
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Appraising the evidence
Six key slides produced by the University of Western Australia to introduce critical appraisal.
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Detectives in the classroom
Five modules of materials for promoting epidemiology among high school students.
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Bringing it all together for the benefit of patients and the public
Improving reports of research and up-to-date systematic reviews of reliable studies are essential foundations of effective health care.
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10 Components of effective clinical epidemiology: How to get started
PDF & Podcast of 1-hr talk by Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford) on effective clinical epidemiology.
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Applying Systematic Reviews
How useful are the results of trials in a systematic review when it comes to weighing up treatment choices for particular patients?
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Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis: Information Overload
None of us can keep up with the sheer volume of material published in medical journals each week.
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Combining the Results from Clinical Trials
Chris Cates notes that emphasizing the results of patients in particular sub-groups in a trial can be misleading.
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The Systematic Review
This blog explains what a systematic review is, the steps involved in carrying one out, and how the review should be structured.
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Traditional Reviews vs. Systematic Reviews
This blog outlines 11 differences between systematic and traditional reviews, and why systematic reviews are preferable.
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Making sense of results – CASP
This module introduces the key concepts required to make sense of statistical information presented in research papers.
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Systematic Reviews – CASP
This unit looks at Critical Appraisal of systematic reviews.
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Avoiding biased selection from the available evidence
Systematic reviews are used to identify, evaluate and summarize all the evidence relevant to addressing a particular question.
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Preparing and maintaining systematic reviews of all the relevant evidence
Unbiased, up-to-date systematic reviews of all the relevant, reliable evidence are needed to inform practice and policy.
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Using the results of up-to-date systematic reviews of research
Trustworthy evidence from research is necessary, but not sufficient, to improve the quality of health care.
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Why comparisons must address genuine uncertainties
Too much research is done when there are no genuine uncertainties about treatment effects. This is unethical, unscientific, and wasteful.
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What are systematic reviews?
A 3-min video by Jack Nunn and The Cochrane Consumers and Communication group for people unfamiliar with the concept of systematic reviews.
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Goldilocks
Cartoon and blog about how poorly performed systematic reviews and meta-analyses may misrepresent the truth.
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House of tottering cards
Poorly performed systematic reviews and meta-analyses may misrepresent the truth.
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He said She said
Unsystematic presentation of research results can be misleading.
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Systematic Reviews
3 slides and a 4-min commentary about systematic reviews and meta-analyses (from Univ Mass Med School).
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Science Weekly Podcast – Ben Goldacre
A 1-hour audio interview with Ben Goldacre discussing misleading claims about research.
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A webpage explaining the foundations of systematic reviews.
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In defence of systematic reviews of small trials
An article discussing the strengths and weaknesses of systematic reviews of small trials.
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Evidence from Randomised Trials and Systematic Reviews
Dr Chris Cates' article discussing control of bias in randomised trials and explaining systematic reviews.
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Reducing the play of chance using meta-analysis
Combining data from similar studies (meta-analysis) can help to provide statistically more reliable estimates of treatment effects.
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سکتهٔ مغزی
مثال دیگری از پژوهش غیرضروری- به این دلیل که نتایج مطالعات قبلی با هم گردآوری و تحلیل نشده بودند- به […]
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دیسترس تنفسی در نوزادان نارس
برخی پژوهشها میان دو طیف خوب و بد قرار دارند و غیرضروری هستند. نمونهای از این پژوهشها به نوزادان نارس […]
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Science is cumulative, but scientists don’t accumulate evidence scientifically
‘Academic researchers have been talking about something called “cumulative meta-analysis” for 25 years: essentially, you run a rolling meta-analysis on […]
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The importance of systematic reviews
‘Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have become increasingly important in health care. Clinicians read them to keep up to date with […]
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Synthesizing information from research
More than a century ago, the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Lord Rayleigh, commented on […]
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منابع هدررفته در مراقبتهای سلامت و پژوهش
نبود مرورهای نظاممند شواهد پژوهشی مرتبط و مطمئن، حتی زمانی که به بیماران و شرکتکنندگان در پژوهشها آسیب نمیرساند مضر […]
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آسیبهای اجتنابپذیر برای شرکتکنندگان در پژوهش
شکست در ارزیابی شواهد مرتبط و مطمئن میتواند سبب آسیب اجتنابپذیر به افرادی شود که در روند پژوهشها شرکت میکنند. […]
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آسیب اجتنابپذیر برای بیماران
درمانهای توصیهشده برای حملات قلبی که در دورهای ۳۰ ساله در کتابهای مرجع منتشر شده بودند، با شواهدی مقایسه شدند […]
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شناخت منافع پنهان و تحریف در مرورهای نظاممند
در این بخش این پرسش مطرح میشود که مرورکنندگان مطالعات بهکمک چه منافع دیگری میتوانند بر روش انجامدادن یا تفسیر […]
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شناسایی شواهد مرتبط برای مرورهای نظاممند
شناسایی شواهد مرتبط برای مرورهای نظاممند- صرفنظر از زبان یا قالب گزارشهای مرتبط- همیشه چالشی چشمگیر به وجود میآورد؛ بهویژه […]
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مرورهای نظاممند از همهٔ شواهد مطمئن و مرتبط
بررسی و مرور نتایج مطالعهای خاص در کنار سایر شواهد مطمئن و مرتبط آسان است، اما در بسیاری از موارد […]
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آیا تنها یک مطالعه کافی است؟
پاسخ واضح به این پرسش «تقریباً هیچوقت» است. در یک مقایسهٔ درمانی بیطرفانه، بهسختی میتوان شواهد مطمئن و کافی برای […]
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دستیابی به اعداد بزرگ در آزمونهای درمانی بیطرفانه
گاهی اوقات ممکن است در آزمونهای درمانی اعداد بزرگ را از پژوهشهایی به دست بیاوریم که در یک یا دو […]
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