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.
| 0 Comments | EvaluatedKnow Your Chances
This book has been shown in two randomized trials to improve peoples' understanding of risk in the context of health care choices.
| 0 Comments | EvaluatedEvidence 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 CommentsTom 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 CommentsReporting the findings: Absolute vs relative risk
Absolute Differences between the effects of two treatments matter more to most people than Relative Differences.
| 0 CommentsStrictly 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.
| 0 CommentsTeach Yourself Cochrane
Tells the story behind Cochrane and the challenges finding good quality evidence to produce reliable systematic reviews.
| 3 CommentsDodgy academic PR
Ben Goldacre: 58% of all press releases by academic institutions lacked relevant cautions and caveats about the methods and results reported
| 0 CommentsOver there! An 8 mile high distraction made of posh chocolate!
Ben Goldcare illustrates strategies used by vested interests to discredit research with ‘inconvenient’ results.
| 0 CommentsBrain 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
| 0 CommentsIntroduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
Bill Caley’s 26 slides with notes used as an ‘Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine’.
| 0 CommentsAppraisal 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.
| 0 CommentsA 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’.
| 0 CommentsAppraising the evidence
Six key slides produced by the University of Western Australia to introduce critical appraisal.
| 0 CommentsBringing 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.
| 0 Comments10 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.
| 0 CommentsLife saving maths: How does vaccination work?
Vaccinating a large enough proportion of children means everyone is protected, including those who can't be vaccinated.
| 0 CommentsHow to work out whether bacon sandwiches are harmful
The headline said there is a 20% greater risk of getting bowel cancer if you eat bacon sandwiches! Are they right?
| 0 CommentsTips for understanding Absolute vs. Relative Risk
Absolute Differences between the effects of two treatments matter more to most people than Relative Differences.
| 0 CommentsApplying Systematic Reviews
How useful are the results of trials in a systematic review when it comes to weighing up treatment choices for particular patients?
| 0 CommentsWhat is it with Odds and Risk?
This blog explains odds ratios and relative risks, and provides the formulae for calculating both measures.
| 0 CommentsDefining Risk
This blog defines ‘risk’ in relation to health, and discusses some the difficulties in applying estimates of risk to a given individual.
| 0 CommentsDepartment of Epidemiology
Presenting relative measures of treatment effects without presenting absolute measures can be misleading.
| 0 CommentsRelative risk, absolute risk and number-needed-to-treat
8 slides and a 4-min commentary on relative risk, absolute risk, and number needed to treat (from Univ Mass Med School).
| 0 CommentsCalculating 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 CommentsRelative or absolute measures of effects
Dr Chris Cates' article explaining absolute and relative effects of treatment effects.
| 0 CommentsAbsolute versus relative risk – making sense of media stories
This blog by Sarah Williams should help people who want to understand risk in the context of health and medical stories in the press.
| 0 CommentsViva la Evidence!
A brilliant song and video by James McCormack explaining the basics of evidence-based medicine.
| 0 CommentsDon’t be fooled by eye-catching statistics
Let’s say the risk of having a heart attack in your fifties is 50 per cent higher if you have […]
| 0 CommentsTaking account of the play of chance
Key point Account must be taken of ‘the ’ by assessing the confidence that can be placed in the quality […]
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