Informed Health Choices Primary School Resources
A textbook and a teachers’ guide for 10 to 12-year-olds. The textbook includes a comic, exercises and classroom activities.
| 0 Comments | Evaluated
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.
| 0 Comments
Dancing statistics: Explaining variance
A 5-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of variance through dance.
| 0 Comments
Dancing statistics: sampling & standard error
A 5-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of sampling and standard error through dance.
| 0 Comments
Dancing statistics: correlation
A 4-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of correlation through dance.
| 0 Comments
Julia Belluz – Lessons from the trenches of evidence-based health journalism at Vox.com
20-minute talk by Julia Belluz on the need to bring the cultures of health journalism and EBM together.
| 0 Comments
Don’t jump to conclusions, #Ask for Evidence
An introduction to the ‘Ask for Evidence’ initiative launched by ‘Sense about Science’ in 2016.
| 0 Comments
DRUG TOO
James McCormick with another parody/spoof of the Cee Lo Green song ‘Forget You’ to prompt scepticism about many drug treatments.
| 0 Comments
The surrogate battle – is lower always better?
James McCormick recruits a furious Fuhrer to point out that taking drugs to lower surrogate measures of ill health is a confidence trick.
| 0 Comments
Tom Hanks and Type 2 Diabetes
A 50-minute illustrated talk by James McCormack prompted by Tom Hanks’ announcement that he had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
| 0 Comments
Bohemian Polypharmacy
James McCormack recruits help from Queen to warn of the dangers of ‘Bohemian Polypharmacy’ in music.
| 0 Comments
Choosing Wisely
James McCormack using song and dance to warn about the negative effects of overtreatment.
| 0 Comments
Like a bridge overdiagnosis
James McCormack with another of his brilliant parodies, warning about the dangers of becoming inappropriately labelled as ill.
| 0 Comments
Explaining the mission of the AllTrials Campaign (TED talk)
Half the clinical trials of medicines we use haven’t been published. Síle Lane shows how the AllTrials Campaign is addressing this scandal.
| 0 Comments
The power of the placebo effect
Emma Bryce’s video presents information about placebo effects: treatments not supposed to have an effect but which make people feel better.
| 0 Comments
Not all scientific studies are created equally
David Schwartz dissects two types of studies that scientists use, illuminating why you should always approach claims with a critical eye.
| 1 Comment
GenerationR – The importance of involving children and young people in research
3/3, 22-min video at the launch of GenerationR, a network of young people who advise researchers.
| 0 Comments
Generation R – The importance of medical research in children and young people
2/3, 35-min video at the launch of GenerationR, a network of young people who advise researchers.
| 0 Comments
Generation R – The need to reduce waste in clinical research involving children
1/3, 14-min video at the launch of GenerationR, a network of young people who advise researchers.
| 0 Comments
Randomized Control Trials
1/2, 40-min lecture on randomized trials by Dr R Ramakrishnan (Lecture 25) for the Central Coordinated Bioethics Programme in India.
| 0 Comments
Compliance with protocol and follow-up in clinical trials
Denis Black’s 10-min, downloadable, PowerPoint presentation on compliance, follow up, and intention-to-treat analysis in clinical trials.
| 0 Comments
5 reasons why you might not get the best healthcare
Five reasons why patients may not always get the best care available.
| 0 Comments
Los intervalos de confianza en investigación
¿Para qué sirven los intervalos de confianza en los estudios de investigación?
| 0 Comments
Toma de Decisiones Compartidas
¿Por qué nosotros, los pacientes, debemos participar en la toma de decisiones médicas importantes?
| 0 Comments
Interpreting 95% Confidence Intervals
Gilbert Welch’s 9-min video on how 95% confidence intervals relate to p values.
| 0 Comments
Motivational Deficiency Disorder – a satirical look at disease mongering
Ray Moynihan’s 4-min video on ‘Motivational Deficiency Disorder’, illustrating ‘disease-mongering’.
| 0 Comments
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.
| 0 Comments
Introduction to clinical trials: lay-friendly video
This lay-friendly video introduction to clinical trials was created by the European Communication on Research Awareness Needs Project.
| 3 Comments
P-values and the role of chance
Gilbert Welch’s 10-min video on p-values and assessing the likelihood that a difference between treatments is due to chance.
| 0 Comments
Understanding Confidence Intervals
A 4-min video explaining the concept of confidence intervals and how they are calculated, with helpful diagrams and examples.
| 0 Comments
Understanding Overdiagnosis bias
Gilbert Welch’s 14-min video discussing the risks of overdiagnosis bias and screening.
| 0 Comments
Calculating and interpreting absolute and relative change in an unwanted outcome after treatment
Gilbert Welch’s 6-min video explaining how to calculate and interpret absolute and relative change in an unwanted outcome.
| 0 Comments
Understanding lead-time bias
Gilbert Welch’s 10-min video explaining why survival ALWAYS rises following early detection -- even if no one is helped.
| 0 Comments
Drug trials in healthy volunteers
A 6-minute video illustrating an early phase clinical trial in healthy volunteers.
| 0 Comments
Means vs. Medians
Keith Bower’s 3-min video explaining how means (averages) and medians can be presented misleadingly.
| 0 Comments
Randomized Controlled Trial Protocols
A 1-hour videoed lecture explaining protocols for Randomized Control Trials (RCTs).
| 0 Comments
Beware conflicts of interest
In this 5-min videoed TED talk, psychologist Dan Ariely explains how conflicts of interest can bias research.
| 0 Comments
Statistical Significance and Practical Significance
Keith Bower’s 3-min video discussing the difference between Statistical Significance and Practical Significance.
| 0 Comments
Signals of overdiagnosis
Gilbert Welch’s 8-min video showing how population screening for disease leads to overdiagnosis.
| 0 Comments
Randomised Controlled Trials vs. Observational Studies
5-minute video explaining the difference between randomised trials and observational studies.
| 0 Comments
Type I and Type II errors, and how statistical tests can be misleading
Gilbert Welch’s 12-min video explaining Type I and Type II errors, and how statistical tests can be misleading.
| 0 Comments
AllTrials: All Trials Registered | All Results Reported
AllTrials aims to correct the situation in which studies remain unpublished or are published but with selective reporting of outcomes.
| 0 Comments
Routine use of unvalidated therapy is less defensible than careful research to assess the effects of those treatments
It is more difficult to obtain consent to give a treatment in a clinical trial than to give the same treatment for patients in practice.
| 2 Comments
The Gold Standard: What are randomised control trials and why are they important?
A four minute video by the MRC Clinical Trials Unit about the importance of randomised control trials.
| 0 Comments
Viva la Evidence!
A brilliant song and video by James McCormack explaining the basics of evidence-based medicine.
| 0 Comments
Ben Goldacre talks about Bad Pharma on C-SPAN
In this 90 minute videoed lecture, Ben Goldacre talks about key issues raised in his book 'Bad Pharma'.
| 0 Comments
Some Studies That I Like to Quote
This short music video encourages health professionals to use evidence to help reach treatment decisions in partnership with patients.
| 0 Comments
What does the Cochrane logo tell us?
This video and animated slide presentation prepared by Steven Woloshin shows how the Cochrane logo was developed, and what it tells us.
| 3 Comments
Shared Decision-Making
This resource from the Health Foundation shows how shared decision-making can be made to work in a typical consultation.
| 0 Comments
On taking a good look at ourselves
Iain Chalmers talks about failings in scientific research that lead to avoidable harm to patients and waste of resources.
| 1 Comment
A poem about regression to the mean
Regression to the mean can lead us to think that an intervention has been effective when it hasn't. This poem illustrates it nicely.
| 0 Comments
Ben Goldacre on TED, on drug companies and hidden data.
Ben Goldacre's lecture at TEDglobal, in which he describes how pharmaceutical companies harm patients by failing to report negative outcomes
| 0 Comments
The placebo effect
A video by NHS Choices explaining what the placebo effect is, and describing its role in medical research and the pharmaceutical industry.
| 0 Comments
Manipulating doctors: testimony from an ex-drug rep
In this 10-min video, Gwen Olsen, a former pharmaceutical sales representative, talks about manipulating doctors to sell more drugs.
| 0 Comments
Therapeutic Touch: a schoolgirl shows how to test it
This 5-minute video provides an example of applying scientific method to dodgy treatment claims.
| 3 Comments
Help at last for the Annoyingly Cheerful
This humorous video by the Onion illustrates some of the tactics used to push unnecessary treatments or "sell" sickness.
| 1 Comment
What does a positive genetic test mean? The example of coeliac disease
Video tutorial explores the ways in which evidence about the effectiveness of genetic testing can be misrepresented in advertising.
| 0 CommentsNo Resources Found
Try clearing your filters or selecting different ones.