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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

Communication & Engagement

Confessions of a rookie consumer peer reviewer

Karen Morley blogs and draws her experiences as a daunted and delighted volunteer peer reviewer for Cochrane Common Mental Disorders.

May 10, 2019 3

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

Communication & Engagement

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

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...

October 4, 2016 0

Lessons in disappointment and some New Year’s resolutions

Broken your New Year’s resolutions yet? Research from the US suggests just 8% of people achieve theirs and we know that...

January 1, 2014 3

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