“It is not our differences that divide us; but the inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences” said writer Audre Lorde. For decades, there has been a gap between
But too much freedom can be a bad thing when it comes to analysis. The danger is that we may use the trial data to help us choose a method that gives us the answer we want.
Today, how do we consider diseases and how do we develop and interpret evidence on this? How does modern medicine actually consider interrelated medical fundamentals such as disease, diagnosis, risk factor, existential condition, and problem?
For supposedly clever people, we academics are complete mugs. Not only do we give away our research for publishers to make a profit1, our institutions pay hefty subscriptions just to access it, or pay even more if we want to make it freely available.
This social pressure for “unmet medical needs” is, in many times, used as an argument for faster drugs approvals pathways. Access to new technologies is important but a balance between access, the cost of clinical drug trials and ensuring robust evidence, “relevant, replicable, and accessible to end users” is required.
In the new era of evidence-based medicine, ‘newly qualified doctors must be able to apply scientific methods and approaches to medical research and integrate these with a range of sources of information used to make decisions for care’
Despite advancement, the way we write and report the findings from our research hasn’t really changed all that much in this same 100-year time frame. The ‘IMRAD’ model of writing academic papers appeared in the mid 20th century, and still forms the backbone of how we write papers today.
Why? How? What (needs improving)?
The answer is simple: By prospectively specifying them. Not only does this provide a roadmap for the review team, it also reduces the risk that the methods are being modified during the systematic review process depending on the results, thus introducing bias.
If you are active in research you will no doubt have an inbox full of unsolicited emails from journals asking for your papers. Here’s an example from my inbox: ‘It’s
A bright future for distance-learning? Challenges and potential solutions The late advances in communication allowed distance barriers to dramatically become less important when it refers to continuing education. At the
After close monitoring of the coronavirus pandemic and taking into consideration the well being of our delegates and speakers, the EBMLive organising committee have taken the decision to cancel
“Is there a need? Will people come?” David Nunan writes about the first run of a new module Developing Practice in Medical Education Being an educator in EBHC creates a