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.
Category Archives: 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
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.
An incomplete and misleading reading of Archie Cochrane
Iain Chalmers, founding director of Cochrane UK, comments on a recent publication in which the authors claim that Cochrane's 1972 book 'Effectiveness and Efficiency' was the inspiration for both the Cochrane Collaboration and the Evidence-Based Medicine movement, and that neither movement has paid sufficient attention to Cochrane's reference to the importance of 'care' in health care.
An invisible unicorn has been grazing in my office for a month… Prove me wrong.
In the final blog from our Understanding Evidence launch week, Martin Burton explores absence of evidence
Evidence-Based Medicine: spreading the word
In the fifth blog of our new series, Understanding Evidence, Lynda Ware gives us a flavour of how she's taking Cochrane to Community Halls
Meet the Cochrane Trainees and engage in evidence!
In the fourth blog of our new series, Understanding Evidence, our Cochrane Trainees introduce their group and invite you to get involved
Students 4 Best Evidence: new kids on the blog
In the 3rd blog of our Understanding Evidence series, Selena Ryan-Vig introduces Students 4 Best Evidence, a blogging network by and for students interested in evidence-based healthcare
Should the Cochrane logo be accompanied by a health warning?
In the second blog of our new series Understanding Evidence, Iain Chalmers, our founding director, looks at developments in research on prenatal...
Understanding evidence: Cochrane UK’s new series
Cochrane UK's Director, Martin Burton, introduces our new series Understanding Evidence, which kicks off today with a week of blogs.