Informed Health Choices Podcasts
Each episode includes a short story with an example of a treatment claim and a simple explanation of a Key Concept used to assess that claim
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Informed Health Choices Primary School Resources
A textbook and a teachers’ guide for 10 to 12-year-olds. The textbook includes a comic, exercises and classroom activities.
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Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
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McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Therapy module
This is the therapy module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
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McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Systematic review module
The Systematic review module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.
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The interpretation of clinical trials
Peter Greenberg’s 9-minute read on the interpretation of clinical trials.
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Reading the Medical literature
American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ACOG) introduction to critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine.
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Evaluating relevance
How to evaluate relevance of research in Michigan State University’s Evidence-Based Medicine Course.
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Sunn Skepsis
Denne portalen er ment å gi deg som pasient råd om kvalitetskriterier for helseinformasjon og tilgang til forskningsbasert informasjon.
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Building evidence into education
Ben Goldacre explains why appropriate infrastructure is need to do clinical trials of sufficient rigour and size to yield reliable results.
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NMT are suing Dr Wilmshurst. So how trustworthy are this company? Let’s look at their website…
Ben Goldacre celebrates Peter Wilmshurst, the doctor who blew the whistle on research misconduct in a study to which he was a contributor.
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Publish or be damned
Ben Goldacre points out the indefensible practice of announcing conclusions from research studies which haven’t been published.
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Why won’t Professor Susan Greenfield publish this theory in a scientific journal?
Ben Goldacre challenges senior Oxford professor to publish the evidence supporting her claim that computer games cause dementia in children.
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Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
Bill Caley’s 26 slides with notes used as an ‘Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine’.
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5 reasons why you might not get the best healthcare
Five reasons why patients may not always get the best care available.
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MMR: the facts in the case of Dr Andrew Wakefield
This 15-page cartoon explains the events surrounding the MMR controversy, and provides links to the relevant evidence.
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Effectiveness Delusions
Cherry picking the results of people in sub-groups can be misleading.
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Blackboard Professor
Beware reliance on 'experience' with no reference to relevant evidence.
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John Ioannidis, the scourge of sloppy science
A 8 min podcast interview with John Ioannidis explaining how research claims can be misleading.
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Smart Health Choices: making sense of health advice
The Smart Health Choices e-book explains how to make informed health decisions.
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Methodology of clinical trials
Eurordis training on the methodology of clinical trials for representatives of patients’ organisations.
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Evaluating Online Health Information
A 30 minute e-Learning presentation by Medline Plus explaining how to evaluate health claims found on the internet.
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Routine use of unvalidated therapy is less defensible than careful research to assess the effects of those treatments
It is more difficult to obtain consent to give a treatment in a clinical trial than to give the same treatment for patients in practice.
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Viva la Evidence!
A brilliant song and video by James McCormack explaining the basics of evidence-based medicine.
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Evidence Based Medicine Matters: Examples of where EBM has benefitted patients
Booklet containing 15 examples submitted by Royal Colleges where Evidence-Based Medicine has benefited clinical practice.
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Some Studies That I Like to Quote
This short music video encourages health professionals to use evidence to help reach treatment decisions in partnership with patients.
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Surgery for the treatment of psychiatric illness: the need to test untested theories
Simon Wessely describes the untested theory of autointoxication, which arose in the 1890s and caused substantial harm to patients.
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Doctors talk about guesswork in prescribing
In a fictional conversation between two doctors, a general practitioner makes the following point: ‘Tons of what we do is […]
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On being sucked into a maelstrom
In 2006, a patient in the UK, who happened to be medically trained, found herself swept along by the Herceptin […]
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3 – More is not necessarily better
In this Chapter: Introduction (this page) Intensive treatments for breast cancer Mutilating surgery Bone marrow transplantation Dare to think about […]
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2 – Hoped-for effects that don’t materialize
In this Chapter: Introduction (this page) Advice on babies’ sleeping position Drugs to correct heart rhythm abnormalities in patients having […]
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Believing is seeing
The British doctor Richard Asher noted in one of his essays for doctors: ‘If you can believe fervently in your […]
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Addressing uncertainty is professional
‘One of the key attributes of professionalism . . . should be the ability to identify and address uncertainty in […]
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Facing up to uncertainties: a matter of life and death
‘Failure to face up to uncertainties about the effects of treatments can result in avoidable suffering and death on a […]
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When practitioners disagree
In this sub-section Introduction (this page) Caffeine for breathing problems in premature babies Antibiotics in pre-term labour Breast cancer Introduction […]
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No wonder she was confused
In January 2004, a hysterectomy patient wrote this letter to The Lancet: ‘In 1986 I had a hysterectomy because of […]
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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
In women going through the menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is very effective in reducing the distressing hot flushes that […]
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Advice on babies’ sleeping position
Do not imagine that only can harm – advice can be lethal too. Many people have heard of the American […]
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Don’t be too certain
“Through seeking we may learn and know things better. But as for certain truth, no man hath known it, for […]
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