OpenPrescribing – new measures now available We’ve been spending some time at OpenPrescribing designing a set of new measures to identify interesting variations in prescribing behaviour Read MoreGuest 16 Feb 2017
My EBM Christmas Wish That school teachers receive better support from the EBM community, enabling them to take advantage of opportunities to teach EBM Read MoreGuest 13 Dec 2016
“Squidgy” Guidelines: What are they and what can we do about them? Ever tried to catch a jellyfish? Or squeeze a squid in your hand? Or wrestle with an octopus? You can’t Read MoreGuest 18 Nov 2016
How to run user testing, and what we learned from doing it on OpenPrescribing How do you know if your product is really working for users? You can guess, you can ask them, Read MoreGuest 27 Oct 2016
Preventing Overdiagnosis – Where are we now? This guest blog was written by Dr David Warriner, a Cardiology Registrar, who has attended each Preventing Overdiagnosis conference since its Read MoreGuest 24 Oct 2016
How to laugh in the face of propensity Sometimes colleagues ask me whether they should use “propensity scores” in their next study. I’m far from an expert in Read MoreGuest 20 Oct 2016
Beyond the buffet table: celebrating the past to inform the future The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group (CTAG) is one of Cochrane’s editorial groups specialising in evidence synthesis for the prevention and Read MoreGuest 17 Mar 2016
MSc Student Blog: Development of a Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Uganda, and the Role of a Health Partnership Development of a Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda : The role of Read MoreGuest 30 Oct 2015
MSc Student Blog: Stopping Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit A few months ago, I had the opportunity to develop a programme in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to help Read MoreGuest 29 Oct 2015
DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care The part-time DPhil regulations normally require a minimum of six years’ part-time study (equivalent to two years’ full-time) up to Read MoreGuest 29 Oct 2015
MSc Student Blog: From Ignorance to Enlightenment, my personal journal to EBHC Please allow me to paraphrase a statement I read years ago: some places give you a career, but Oxford gives Read MoreGuest 29 Oct 2015
MSc Student Blog: Advice on Admissions Congratulations on your admission into the University of Oxford! Now what? Why do I keep receiving duplicate letters? How do Read MoreGuest 29 Oct 2015
The widespread dangers of bad medicine Guy Collender, Head of Alumni Communications and Marketing at the University of Oxford, reports from the Harms in Healthcare event, Read MoreGuest 28 Sep 2015
All I wanted to do was to improve my spelling. My arrival at the University of Oxford has been very unexpected: all I wanted to do was to improve my Read MoreGuest 19 Mar 2015
Time-dependent bias in observational studies of oseltamivir Time-dependent bias is not an issue in randomised studies as treatment (including placebo) is given at the beginning of follow Read MoreGuest 11 Feb 2015