TT interactive
Testing Treatments interactive
Over coming months the full text of the new edition of the book will be made available in HTML on this website. This will enable visitors to www.testingtreatments.org to access the content of the book more flexibly.
In addition, TT interactive will contain links to other resources, identified by the authors and by you, that help to explain and illustrate the principles and messages contained in the book.
Finally, we will be working with groups of translators around the world to create sibling websites based on their translations of the full text of Testing Treatments.
If you would like to receive occasional progress reports on the evolution of TT interactive sign up here.
Development team
Editors: Iain Chalmers, Paul Glasziou;
Web Producer: Douglas Badenoch;
Interactive Resources Co-ordinator: Amanda Burls
Advisors: Ben Goldacre, Andy Oxman, Sarah Rosenbaum, Nick Ross, Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin.
This is a great site even from my phone. Well done to everyone who has helped produce the latest version and to set up this site.
I look forward to hearing of more stories and examples of how we might improve patient care and research.
Hi,
I am really excited about this, it is so needed. Patients and the public really need this.
You could even have MSC students answer queries about treatments using EBHC and CASP. When patients find out someone will actually answer queries they get excited and it helps the site grow plus great information is getting out to the public as the search engines pick this up. Of course this may not be your vision, I am just sharing an idea.
Dr Burls said we could sign up here to volunteer to give feedback and to help with rewrites of complex material to make all user friendly and fun. I can also add links on my blogs/websites and do a couple of posts on this to point others this way. Please let me know if my help would be good/useful.
Great work and all the best with this!
Amy Price
MSc Evidence Based HealthCare
Oxford University
Hi,
Like Amy, I have just seen Amanda’s post on our Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care forum and I am also really excited about the potential for this site and would like to be able to help in any way I can.
I help develop the training curriculum and internal verification of the training for our volunteers which includes encouraging them to think about levels of evidence so they can communicate this with new mothers.
Great news – thank you.
Phyll
Excellent resource for patients and their families/carers and also for professionals.
This book is an excellent teaching resource for medical students starting their clinical rotations – will definitely get them to read it!
This book is just excellent and brave. I read the first edition and could not stop until I finished. I only wish the second be as precise and concise as the first one in terms of format and layout.
This book and Goldacre’s Bad Science are so much needed to counterbalance evidence-based medicine to the torrents of really badly biased and flawed (so-called) research .
Haven’t looked at the download yet, but I know it’ll be excellent after listening to Sir Iain on Jim Al-Khalili’s Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific, earlier this morning. My personal interest derives partly from the two long-term medical conditions and spinal injury that have so far provided me with unusual learning opportunities and entertainment. Although an optimist by nature, I tend to research and ruminate long and hard before signing consent forms, and have signed up to various patient representation groups. Anything to boost the information component involved in ‘informed consent’ must be a great idea.