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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

Communication & Engagement

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 0

Understanding Evidence

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

Understanding Evidence

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

Understanding Evidence

From acupuncture to vitamin D: engaging the experts when the evidence is equivocal

Nurse Helen Cowan delves into the Cochrane Library to explore some 'known unknowns', and reflects on what practitioners might do when the evidence is equivocal, and what might bridge the evidence gap.

May 25, 2018 1

Evidence for Everyday Health Choices

Being patient with EBM. “Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should” – supporting informed decision-making

Sarah Chapman and Kit Byatt reflect on their discussion about helping an elderly relative decide whether a test and a treatment offered were in her best interests.

April 26, 2018 0

Evidence for Everyday Nursing

Cochrane evidence on catheter washouts: from Twitter to the bedside

We Nurses founder Teresa Chinn reflects on how learning about Cochrane evidence on catheter washouts enabled her to challenge and change her patient's care.

January 24, 2018 2

Mental & Neurological

Behind the headlines: can one in three dementia cases be prevented?

Kirsty Marais from Alzheimer's UK goes behind the headlines that 1 in 3 dementia cases could be prevented, unpacking what the new Lancet Commission on Dementia found

August 1, 2017 0

Understanding Evidence

Cocoa and blood pressure: food for thought

Selena Ryan-Vig highlights some important considerations for reading research by looking at Cochrane evidence on cocoa and blood pressure

June 27, 2017 1

Understanding Evidence

Unthinkable thoughts and evidence

How would you not wish to die? Richard Lehman reflects on a discussion about advance decisions, evidence-based medicine and kindness.

February 19, 2017 0

Understanding Evidence

Teaching kids to assess goopy health claims

In this blog for our #UnderstandingEvidence series, Matt Oxman talks about the Informed Health Choices project, which helps children sort the wheat from the chaff of evidence about treatment effects

December 8, 2016 0

Evidence for Everyday Nursing

Everyday practice: tried, trusted and tested? Here’s why we need evidence

Established practices may be so familiar that they aren’t questioned. They should be. We consider this here in an area of everyday nursing practice, pressure ulcer management, but hope this will be read in the context of other areas of healthcare.

November 16, 2016 2

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