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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

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

Patient & Public Involvement

Game-changer: the NIHR’s new funding stream for ‘Studies Within A Trial’ (SWATs)

Shaun Treweek points a finger at the thin evidence base for trial process decision-making and highlights a new funding initiative from the National Institute for Health Research that will help.

May 17, 2018 0

Understanding Evidence

Retention to clinical trials: how can we keep participants involved?

Katie Gillies and Derek Stewart, from the PRioRiTy II group, highlight the need for the identification of a national research agenda on retention to clinical trials developed and prioritised by all relevant stakeholders.

May 16, 2018 2

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

Patient & Public Involvement

TaskExchange helps evidence newcomers

TaskExchange has launched new features especially for evidence newcomers! TaskExchange is Cochrane’s online platform that connects people needing help...

April 3, 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

Writing a Cochrane Review – the trainee experience

In this blog introduced by Rufaro Ndokera, trainees Eoin and David talk about their experiences of systematic review writing so far.

September 6, 2017 1

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