3-2 Are you very different from the people studied?

Battling bad science

15-min talk by Ben Goldacre on ways evidence can be distorted.

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Teach Yourself Cochrane

Tells the story behind Cochrane and the challenges finding good quality evidence to produce reliable systematic reviews.

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Applying evidence to patients

A 27-minute talk on ‘Applying Evidence to Patients’, illustrated by 17 slides, with notes.

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Applying the evidence

Six key slides produced by the University of Western Australia on applying evidence in practice.

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Not all scientific studies are created equally

David Schwartz dissects two types of studies that scientists use, illuminating why you should always approach claims with a critical eye.

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Preclinical animal studies: bad experiments cost lives

This blog notes that few therapies that treat disease in animals successfully translate into effective treatments for humans.

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Toma de Decisiones Compartidas

¿Por qué nosotros, los pacientes, debemos participar en la toma de decisiones médicas importantes?

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Cecil and those pellets again…

If possible, participants in clinical trials should not know which treatment they are receiving.

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Catch 22 – clinical trials edition

Fair comparisons of treatments in animals or highly selected groups of people may not be relevant.

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How to read articles about healthcare

This article 'How to read health news behind the headlines', by Dr Alicia White, explains how to assess health claims in the media.

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Animal and Lab studies

A webpage explaining how results from animal studies may not be transferable to humans.

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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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Who decides what gets studied?

Clearly this situation is unsatisfactory, so how has it come about? One reason is that what gets studied by researchers […]

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Stroke

Another example of unnecessary research, yet again because the results of preceding studies had not been gathered together and analyzed, […]

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