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Expert opinion is not always right

Expert advice isn’t always right or based on careful consideration of the best evidence. In the first blog of our new special series '“Oh, really?” 12 things to help you question health advice', Cochrane UK's Director, Professor Martin Burton, takes us from experts to evidence.

January 27, 2020 4

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“Oh, really?” 12 things to help you question health advice

Introducing a new special series of blogs on Evidently Cochrane: “Oh, really?” Twelve things to help you question health advice. In 2020, we're publishing one blog each month, offering 12 things to help you question health advice. The series is based on a list of ‘Key Concepts’ developed by the Informed Health Choice project team.

January 22, 2020 3

Teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) in schools

Cochrane UK run talks and workshops in secondary schools, teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) and critical thinking for years 9-13.

September 26, 2019 4

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The People’s Trial: your chance to be a scientist in a fun online trial

Want to be part of a bold new project, a public-led fun online clinical trial? Here it is - The People's Trial.

August 6, 2019 1

Getting clinical guidelines into practice – what works best?

Robert Walton blogs Cochrane evidence on interventions to support clinical guideline implementation.

July 19, 2019 0

Children can do randomised trials! START competition 2019

School children in Ireland have run and presented their own randomised trials in the innovative START (Schools Teaching About Randomised Trials) competition. Here's what they achieved and why this matters.

May 28, 2019 6

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Key concepts for assessing treatment claims

In this blog for our Understanding Evidence series, Emma Carter and Selena Ryan-Vig share resources to help you get to grips with some key concepts that can help us to think critically about treatment claims.

February 8, 2019 0

Cochrane Crowd for students: what’s in it for you?

Cochrane Crowd's Community Engagement and Partnerships Manager Emily Steele, and Co-Leader Anna Noel-Storr blog about the benefits for students of getting involved with Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane's citizen science platform.

November 21, 2018 1

Realistic medicine: #CochraneForAll interview with Gregor Smith

This is a transcript of a podcast interview with Gregor Smith, general practitioner and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, conducted by Casey Quinlan @MightyCasey. Recorded at the Cochrane Colloquium 2018 .

October 10, 2018 0

Patient & Public Involvement

Shared Decision Making: essential but hard to measure

Richard Lehman, Professor of the Shared Understanding of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, reflects on the latest Cochrane evidence on shared decision making

August 9, 2018 3

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Evidence flowers: visual summaries of evidence for patients and health professionals

Opeyemi Babatude, Research Associate at Keele University, introduces “Evidence Flowers” as a novel way of providing a visual summary of research evidence.

August 1, 2018 2

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Schools Teaching Awareness of Randomised Trials (START). Can understanding trials really be child’s play?

Sandra Galvin and Shaun Treweek blog about the START competition that challenges children in Ireland's primary schools to become trialists and reflects on what they have achieved.

June 7, 2018 2

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