Critical appraisal of clinical trials

Format: Lessons

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Language/s: English

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Resource Link: View the Lesson (PDF)

Target Audience: Postgraduate and professional

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Undergraduate

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Short Description:

Slides developed by Amanda Burls for an interactive presentation covering the most important features of well controlled trials.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 2-1 Treatments should be compared fairly
• 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar
• 2-4 Comparison groups should be treated equally
• 2-7 All should be followed up
• 2-8 Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons
• 2-16 Don’t confuse “statistical significance” with “importance”
• 2-17 Don’t confuse “no evidence” with “no effect”
• 2-14 Fair comparisons with few people or outcome events can be misleading

Details

Slides developed by Amanda Burls for an interactive presentation covering the most important features of well controlled trials.