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Jeff Aronson
In the second of three blogs on writing words worth reading, Jeff Aronson offers some simple guidelines.
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Louise Hurst
Value-based healthcare is the equitable, sustainable and transparent use of the available resources to achieve better outcomes and experiences for every person.
The first of a series of three blogs.
Edmund Jack
‘The teaching EBM (TEBM) course was a great experience – working with and helping others develop their teaching skills’
Kathy Taylor
How can categorical risk data be pooled?
How do you calculate a standard error of a beta coefficient?
What can you do when a study reports a beta coefficient instead of a hazard ratio?
Bavidra Kulendrarajah & Adam Grey
The combination of these two outcomes has made this a really worthwhile experience, and one we would highly recommend to our colleagues considering where to spend their time on the special studies module.
Stephanie Tierney
The range of approaches to meta-synthesis has proliferated over recent decades…
Veronika Williams, Anne-Marie Boylan, David Nunan
Why we need to reshape critical appraisal and develop tools that allow differentiated evaluations of the myriad of qualitative methodological approaches
I’ll look at a different study design, prognostic studies, and consider a problem with extracting hazard ratios, relative risks and odds ratios. I’ll focus on hazard ratios, but my tip will also apply to relative risks and odds ratios.
Logarithms (frequently referred to as ‘logs’) are often used in statistics.
Kome Gbinigie
Most of the research on the way that bacterial skin infections present in older adults has been performed in hospital–based studies. Together with a team of researchers at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford, we decided to find out what research has been done in this area in the community setting so that the findings would be relevant to GPs.
What if the sensitivity or specificity is also not reported?
Stephanie Tierney and Kamal R Mahtani
Systematic reviews of quantitative research are a staple of decision-making for those providing and commissioning services.
