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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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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Evidence for everyday health choices
A 17-min slide cast by Lynda Ware, on the history of EBM, what Cochrane is, and how to understand the real evidence behind the headlines.
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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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Dancing statistics: correlation
A 4-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of correlation through dance.
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Julia Belluz – Lessons from the trenches of evidence-based health journalism at Vox.com
20-minute talk by Julia Belluz on the need to bring the cultures of health journalism and EBM together.
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Calling Bullshit Syllabus
Carl Bergstrom's and Jevin West's nice syllabus for 'Calling Bullshit'.
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All bow before the mighty power of the nocebo effect
Ben Goldacre discusses nocebo effects, through which unpleasant symptoms are induced by negative expectations, despite no physical cause.
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Detectives in the classroom
Five modules of materials for promoting epidemiology among high school students.
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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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Making the most of the evidence in education
A pamphlet to guide people using research evidence when deliberating about educational policies.
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Randomized Control Trials
1/2, 40-min lecture on randomized trials by Dr R Ramakrishnan (Lecture 25) for the Central Coordinated Bioethics Programme in India.
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Why treatment comparisons are essential
Formal comparisons are required to assess treatment effects and to take account of the natural course of health problems.
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Soy Lattes
Just because two things are associated, doesn't mean one thing caused the other.
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Cause and Effect
Just because two things are associated, doesn't mean one thing caused the other.
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Observational Studies – does the language fit the evidence?
A webpage explaining observational studies and their advantage and disadvantages.
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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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Can measurements show if a treatment works?
An article discussing errors to avoid when testing treatments.
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Association is not the same as causation. Let’s say that again: association is not the same as causation!
This article explains how to tell when correlation or association has been confused with causation.
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New – but is it better?
Key points Testing new is necessary because new treatments are as likely to be worse as they are to be […]
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Mistaking the cure
. . .‘it is alleged to be found true by proof, that by the taking of Tobacco, divers and very […]
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The beneficial effects of optimism and wishful thinking
The psychological reasons for people attributing any improvement in their condition to the treatment they received are now better understood. […]
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Why are fair tests of treatments needed?
In this sub-section Nature, the healer (this page) The beneficial effects of optimism and wishful thinking The need to go […]
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