Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course. Realist synthesis has positioned itself as a potentially valuable tool within health services research and evaluation. Opportunistically, it now inhabits the shadowy borderland between the messy domain of real world evaluation and the perceived rigorous scientific method of systematic review and evidence synthesis. Occupying this methodological demilitarised zone is not without its challenges; offering ong...
Nov 24, 2017•52 min
Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. Qualitative researchers employ a range of different approaches to conducting qualitative analyses. In the process, they describe and interpret data, explaining the relationships between the patterns they find and interrogating their findings in various ways to provide thick descriptions of phenomena or explanatory theories. Drawing on his own qualitative analyses on experiences of cancer, Dr John MacArtney will expl...
Nov 15, 2017•41 min
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series,
Oct 20, 2017•36 min
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health This talk will present a simple effective appraisal system based on two first steps to rapidly appraise and sift the evidence for its relevance and application to actual patient care, prior to assessing its validity. Professor Carl Heneghan is ...
Oct 13, 2017•32 min
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research. Coordination and collaboration are key: letting a thousand flowers bloom is all very well but it does mean that evidence to support trial decisions is patchy and accumulates very slowly. In addition to introducing Trial Forge, the talk will suggest ways in which you can contribute to it.
Jul 10, 2017•50 min
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods.
Jul 10, 2017•1 hr 1 min
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. Hard though this often is to achieve in practice, one fundamental principle is that evidence integrated into decision making should be the “current best evidence.” Whilst the amount of research, funded and published, has grown enormously, there is little to suggest concomitant increases in outputs that have led to real improvements in patient care. Equally ...
Apr 12, 2017•44 min
Jeffrey Aronson presents a light-hearted talk on spelling in systematic reviewing. Jeff is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at the Oxford University Department for Primary Health Care. His research expertise includes methods of classifying, detecting, and reporting adverse drug reactions, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Mar 29, 2017
Jeffrey Aronson presents a light-hearted talk on spelling in systematic reviewing. Jeff is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at the Oxford University Department for Primary Health Care. His research expertise includes methods of classifying, detecting, and reporting adverse drug reactions, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Mar 29, 2017•39 min
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. Understanding the impact of Overdiagnosis, how to detect it and what to do about it might stem its inexplicable rise and prevent the epidemic of unnecessary testing. Professor Carl Heneghan is a board member of the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference and has an active i...
Jan 27, 2017•34 min
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. We need a better understanding of what constitutes rigorous research; what are the different types of research that underpin decision making that matters to patients and how we should go about fixing the problems of poor quality research. There are major structural problems with the current production and use of evidence that nee...
Jan 17, 2017•37 min
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. Merlin’s research focuses on global health, particularly primary health care in low-income countries. In such countries, maternal and child mortality is significantly greater than in the UK – one in five children die before their fifth birthday. Primary health care has the potential to save most of these lives, if it is implemented according to best evidence. In this talk Merlin talks about the different studies and designs...
Nov 15, 2016•50 min
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme.
Oct 31, 2016•35 min
Prof Aksel Tjora, Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. Demonstrating how the potential of qualitative analysis is developed by maintaining a strong inductive strategy of concept development.
Jun 23, 2016•49 min
Prof Neal Maskrey gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine seminar series. Decisions made in health care are not strongly based on the best available evidence. There is 40 years of research which explains why this is normal, but we don’t learn much about it from health care curricula because it comes from cognitive psychology and behavioural economics. How do individuals make decisions, how might they make them better, and how does all this fit into the complex skill set I hope th...
Jun 01, 2016•1 hr 4 min
Dr Kamal Mahtani is an NHS GP, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. His talk explores why so much research is wasted.
Jun 01, 2016•40 min
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme
May 03, 2016•42 min
Talk by Dr Helen Ashdown regarding three rather different diagnostic studies People: Helen Ashdown
May 03, 2016•24 min
Carl Heneghan gives a talk held on January 11th 2016 Kellogg College. Recommended reading: Strunk Jr, W. and White, E.B. (1999) The Elements of Style, 4th Ed. Longman. ISBN: 978-0205309023. King, G. (2014) Improve Your Writing Skills, 1st Ed. Collins. Mathews, J., Bowen, J M. and Matthews, R W. (2000) Successful Scientific Writing, 2nd Ed. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521789622. Seely, J. (2004) Oxford Everyday Grammar. Oxford University Press. ISBN:978-0198608745 Forsyth, M. (2014) Th...
Jan 29, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series. EBM has been transformational for healthcare, however, currently it is poorly understood how this has occurred over time. Using Heart Attack as an example, Prof Carl Heneghan will demonstrate and discuss how EBM has saved lives, and invite the audience to consider the consequence of a health system without evidence. More informatiopn can be found here; www.cebm.net/what-has-ebm-done-for-healthcare/
Oct 22, 2015•47 min
Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. She studied Medical, Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford before training as an academic GP.
Aug 05, 2015•1 hr
Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Barbara Farrell shares from her wide experience.
May 06, 2015•33 min
The patient as storyteller and the story as ‘self management’
Apr 07, 2015•33 min
If we are going to take impact seriously, we need to be clear about the philosophical assumptions underpinning different kinds of research and also the different kinds of links between research, practice and policy.
Mar 26, 2015•46 min
Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk on the crisis facing evidence based medicine and offers a solution for its rennaissance within healthcare.
Mar 24, 2015•49 min
Dr Helen Ashdown is a GP and Clinical Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. During her clinical academic training, she designed and led a study to investigate whether pain on going over speed bumps when travelling to hospital is a good diagnostic test for appendicitis. This was published in the 2012 Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal. She will describe her own bumpy journey through the process of answering a clinical question -...
Dec 03, 2014•49 min
This talk will introduce the realist review methodology as a strategy for combining qualitative and quantitative data to answer the question “what works, for whom, and in what circumstances” This methodology is proving popular in addressing questions around complex and social interventions. The talk will provide a brief overview of approaches to synthesizing qualitative and quantitative research for mixed methods reviews, discuss approaches to dealing with different study types in realist review...
Dec 01, 2014•1 hr 11 min
The need to generate systematic reviews is relatively uncontroversial and until recently so were the methods of production. The presentation will highlight a number of problems associated with the current system and propose a radical departure to ensure we meet Archie Cochrane's desire to see all RCTs included in critical summaries.
Dec 01, 2014•31 min
Carl Heneghan is a Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and a Primary Care Physician and has over 20 years experience of using evidence in practice for changing health care. This talk will give you an understanding of how you might get involved in the modern era of EBM improvement and what you could do to support the application of evidence into practice.
Dec 01, 2014•52 min
Dr Carl Heneghan talks to Rafael Perera about medical statistics and gives an introduction to the subject.
Aug 09, 2013•42 min
