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Evidence to impact: reflections on the impact of sharing evidence in blogs
20th October is World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day. Cochrane UK’s Knowledge Brokers, Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig, take up its theme #EvidenceToImpact, with a reflection on the potential impact of sharing evidence in blogs and the challenges of capturing it.
IVF add-ons: the latest Cochrane evidence
In this blog for people undergoing IVF, Sarah Lensen (Cochrane editor) and Noortje Uphoff (previous IVF patient) look at the latest Cochrane evidence on IVF add-ons.
Neonatal jaundice: Cochrane evidence on prevention and treatment
Katie Westwood, Paediatric Registrar, looks at Cochrane evidence on the prevention and treatment of jaundice in neonates
Evidence for Nursing: new evidence and resources – Autumn 2020
The latest evidence and resources for nurses and clinical support workers.
Evidence for Allied Health: new evidence and resources – Autumn 2020
The latest evidence and resources for allied health professionals and clinical support staff.
Evidence for Maternity Care: new evidence and resources – Autumn 2020
The latest evidence and resources for midwives and clinical support staff, with content on COVID-19, antenatal care, labour and birth.
Evidence for maternity care, nursing and allied health from Cochrane UK
Cochrane UK’s Knowledge Brokers Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig introduce three refreshed evidence series for health professionals and clinical...
Choosing images for sharing evidence: new guidance from Cochrane
Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig, Cochrane UK's Knowledge Brokers, introduce new guidance for anyone who needs to choose images for a dissemination product based on any Cochrane Review, which may also be helpful for others interested in image selection, and reflect on what they’ve learned along the way.
Priority Setting Partnerships: celebrating 16 years of work to reduce research waste
Caroline Whiting reflects on the milestone of 100 completed Priority Setting Partnerships and the importance of this work with patients, carers and clinicians for making research relevant and useful.
Personal experiences or anecdotes (stories) are an unreliable basis for assessing the effects of most treatments
This blog explains why personal experience, or a series of personal experiences, can be misleading. Just because an individual got better after using a treatment does not mean that other people who receive the same treatment will also improve, or that the treatment is responsible – ‘regression to the mean’ tells us that experiences such as pain may improve anyway without treatment.
Travel-related measures for controlling the spread of COVID-19: new Cochrane evidence
Sarah Chapman looks at a new Cochrane rapid review with evidence on the effectiveness of travel-related measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Web accessibility and Evidently Cochrane: making our blog more accessible to all
Students at City University, London carried out an evaluation of Evidently Cochrane to assess how accessible the site is for people with various impairments. This blog explains the key changes we have since made to improve the blog's accessibility.