Fixing evidence based medicine
11th October 2016Love it or hate it—we must all consume evidence. Now is your chance to have your say on what its future should be like. Yesterday the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford Read more
Love it or hate it—we must all consume evidence. Now is your chance to have your say on what its future should be like. Yesterday the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford Read more
As a primary school teacher turned education researcher I was delighted to have been invited to attend Evidence Live (see here) at the end of June. Education at ‘the chalkface’ Read more
Evidence Live 2016 was a resounding success, bringing together global leaders in evidence-based medicine along with 300 delegates. An important conference theme was Training the Next Generation of Leaders in Read more
Evidence Live 2016 begins this week, with 3 full days of discussion and learning around 5 main themes including “Transforming the Communication of Evidence for Better Health”. Here the CEBM deputy Read more
Leading up to Evidence Live 2016, we will be publishing a series of blog posts highlighting projects, initiatives and innovative ideas from future leaders in evidence based medicine. Please read Read more
During the last decade a number of EBM proponents as well as critics have addressed the ‘problems with EBM’ with devaluing words and destructive proposals. The intentions of the EBM-black Read more
Getting Research Done Right “I don’t think enough is being done to make new practitioners ask about the evidence when they are faced with “expertise” and opinion; and randomised trials Read more
Dr Amy Price Evidence Building Protocols When developing a protocol for a clinical trial there are clear steps to building good methods, truth, accuracy and transparency into the research. The Read more
Clinician Initiated Trials, Can They Work? Clinical trials are done to explore whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe, effective, and economical. Trials also explore which treatments work Read more
When teaching evidence-based medicine to undergraduate students, postgraduate students or professionals I encourage all my students to think critically and ask for the evidence for whatever clinical questions they might Read more
Three decades ago the production, dissemination and implementation of evidence was mainly done by, and targeted at, doctors. Regulation was lax, trials could be done at the flip of a coin Read more
“But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.” The beginning of Bill Clinton’s first inaugural address seems an odd place to Read more