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What if neither sensitivity nor specificity are reported? Kathy Taylor In this post I return briefly to data extraction
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Kamal R. Mahtani, Director MSc EBHC (Systematic Reviews) One of the purposes of conducting systematic reviews is to provide available
Geoff Wong Geoff welcomes the increase in popularity of realist reviews, but raises challenges that such popularity might bring.
Kathy Taylor What if there’s no intervention?
Kathy Taylor pico, PICO (No, I’m not shouting)
Kathy Taylor Extracting graphical data in fewer words.
Kathy Taylor
Estimating a hazard ratio from a Kaplan curve and numbers at risk
Kathy Taylor In my trial example I estimated the follow-up range of 15 to 80 months.
Kathy Taylor In this blog post I’m returning to extracting hazard ratios (HRs)
Kome Gbinigie Older adults are more susceptible than younger people to bacterial infections.
J. Mark Riddell Patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery have typically suffered moderate to severe pain after their procedure.
Kathy Taylor What if there’s only a graph?
Medical Students Miranda Stoddart & Oliver Blanshard Our time at CEBM focused on the assessment of how authors of RCTs report their methodology
Jason Oke, Luke Allen, Jose Ordonez-Menes A women has her blood pressure taken and at 145 mmHg, is suspected as being hypertensive.
Anne-Marie Boylan and Colm Andrews Rejection is part of the process: Turning your dissertation into an academic paper
