Informed Health Choices Podcasts
Each episode includes a short story with an example of a treatment claim and a simple explanation of a Key Concept used to assess that claim
| 1 Comment | EvaluatedEbm@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 | EvaluatedMcMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Therapy module
This is the therapy module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
| 0 CommentsMcMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Systematic review module
The Systematic review module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
| 0 CommentsBasic statistics for clinicians: 3. Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association
Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association.
| 0 CommentsWhat Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine?
Philosopher John Worral’s reflections on the evidence used in Evidence-Based Medicine.
| 0 CommentsYou Can’t Trust What you read about nutrition
Beware of misleading correlations between foods and chance associations with other factors.
| 0 CommentsAssociation is not the same as causation. Let’s say that again: association is not the same as causation!
This article explains how to tell when correlation or association has been confused with causation.
| 0 CommentsUsing research evidence: a practice guide
NESTA’s guide to using research evidence to inform decisions in policy and practice.
| 0 CommentsPolicy: twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims
This list will help non-scientists to interrogate advisers and to grasp the limitations of evidence.
| 0 CommentsUnderstanding Health Research, a tool for making sense of health studies: Confounders
A confounder (or 'confounding factor') is something, other than the thing being studied, that could be causing the results seen in a study.
| 0 CommentsUnderstanding Health Research: Correlation and Causation
A discussion of the difference between correlation and causation.
| 0 CommentsUnderstanding Health Research: A tool for making sense of health studies
An interactive online tool designed to help anybody to understand scientific health research evidence.
| 0 CommentsReading the Medical literature
American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ACOG) introduction to critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine.
| 0 CommentsRandomised controlled trials (RCTs)
‘Ask for Evidence’ introduction to the concept of a randomised comparison.
| 0 CommentsEvidence 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 CommentsSunn Skepsis
Denne portalen er ment å gi deg som pasient råd om kvalitetskriterier for helseinformasjon og tilgang til forskningsbasert informasjon.
| 0 CommentsDancing statistics: correlation
A 4-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of correlation through dance.
| 0 CommentsJulia 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 CommentsCalling Bullshit Syllabus
Carl Bergstrom's and Jevin West's nice syllabus for 'Calling Bullshit'.
| 0 CommentsAll bow before the mighty power of the nocebo effect
Ben Goldacre discusses nocebo effects, through which unpleasant symptoms are induced by negative expectations, despite no physical cause.
| 0 CommentsDetectives in the classroom
Five modules of materials for promoting epidemiology among high school students.
| 0 CommentsNot 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 CommentMaking the most of the evidence in education
A pamphlet to guide people using research evidence when deliberating about educational policies.
| 0 CommentsRandomized 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 CommentsWhy treatment comparisons are essential
Formal comparisons are required to assess treatment effects and to take account of the natural course of health problems.
| 0 CommentsSoy Lattes
Just because two things are associated, doesn't mean one thing caused the other.
| 0 CommentsCause and Effect
Just because two things are associated, doesn't mean one thing caused the other.
| 0 CommentsObservational Studies – does the language fit the evidence?
A webpage explaining observational studies and their advantage and disadvantages.
| 0 CommentsSmart Health Choices: making sense of health advice
The Smart Health Choices e-book explains how to make informed health decisions.
| 0 CommentsCan measurements show if a treatment works?
An article discussing errors to avoid when testing treatments.
| 0 CommentsWhy are fair tests of treatments needed?
In this sub-section Nature, the healer (this page) The beneficial effects of optimism and wishful thinking The need to go […]
| 2 Comments1 – New, but is it better?
In this Chapter: Introduction (this page) Thalidomide Vioxx Avandia Mechanical heart valves Herceptin References (Section 1) Key points Testing new […]
| 0 CommentsMistaking the cure
. . .‘it is alleged to be found true by proof, that by the taking of Tobacco, divers and very […]
| 0 CommentsThe beneficial effects of optimism and wishful thinking
The psychological reasons for people attributing any improvement in their condition to the treatment they received are now better understood. […]
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