This blog explores the pros and cons of health awareness events as opportunities for sharing evidence, and how to choose and use them wisely.
Communicating Evidence
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.
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.
Illustrating mental health topics: from the headclutcher to the hopeful
Sarah Chapman reflects on a tweetchat on how best to illustrate mental health topics when sharing evidence.
Illustrating mental health topics: how can we do this well? A Cochrane tweetchat
Join @CochraneUK and @Cochrane_CCMD for a tweetchat on illustrating mental health topics, on Wednesday 12th February 2020
Evidently Cochrane: reflecting on the year and looking ahead
Sarah Chapman looks at some highlights on Evidently Cochrane in 2019 and some changes.
The power of the picture: opportunity and responsibility when illustrating health topics
Sarah Chapman reflects on conversations in Cochrane and beyond about images used to illustrate heath topics.
Getting clinical guidelines into practice – what works best?
Robert Walton blogs Cochrane evidence on interventions to support clinical guideline implementation.
Cochrane blogshots: challenges and changes
With the launch of new guidance for making Cochrane blogshots, Sarah Chapman explains how this has come about and some of the challenges of sharing evidence in this format.
Evidence-based medicine, relationships and trust: #CochraneForAll interview with Dr Margaret McCartney
André Tomlin (@Mental_Elf), from the Beyond The Room team at the 2018 Cochrane Colloquium,#CochraneForAll, in Edinburgh interviews Dr Margaret McCartney (@mgtmccartney), general practitioner, about the practice of evidence-based medicine, relationships and trust.
Beyond The Room at the Cochrane Colloquium: reflections from the team
Cochrane UK’s Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig took the recent Cochrane Colloquium 'Beyond The Room', as part of a team of eight. With insights from their intrepid team mates, they consider what this extended social media activity achieved, what they would do another time and why, as Sally Crowe said, they “might be a little bit addicted to it”!
From #PatientsIncluded to Patient in 12 hours – my #BeyondTheRoom experience at the Cochrane Colloquium, 2018
Sally Crowe reflects on participating in our recent conference, the Cochrane Colloquium, as a member of the #BeyondTheRoom team.