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Evidence-Based Health Care

The broad aim of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine is to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to doctors and health care professionals to help m... Read more

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Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare

Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare

Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent cas... Read more

9 Apr 2019

37mins

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Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above the ontological desert of ‘behaviour change’ research

Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above the ontological desert of ‘behaviour change’ research

Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Pri... Read more

5 Aug 2015

59mins

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Big data in heart failure - opportunities and realities

Big data in heart failure - opportunities and realities

The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. h... Read more

3 Jul 2019

37mins

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Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain

Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain

In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Kar... Read more

2 Jul 2018

40mins

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Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference?

Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference?

A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doe... Read more

2 Mar 2018

31mins

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Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis

Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis

Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, ... Read more

27 Jan 2017

34mins

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Research impact: the new jargon for knowledge to action

Research impact: the new jargon for knowledge to action

If we are going to take impact seriously, we need to be clear about the philosophical assumptions underpinning different... Read more

26 Mar 2015

46mins

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Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare

Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare

Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. Patients are being let down by serious fl... Read more

10 Oct 2018

36mins

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Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems

Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems

Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why e... Read more

6 Feb 2019

33mins

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How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research

How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research

Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in eviden... Read more

28 Nov 2017

41mins

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Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests

Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests

Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed b... Read more

30 Jan 2018

39mins

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Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research?

Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research?

For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key to... Read more

8 Apr 2019

33mins

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Better evidence for better health care

Better evidence for better health care

Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme.

31 Oct 2016

34mins

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Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine How did we get here and how do we get out of the mess

Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine How did we get here and how do we get out of the mess

Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme

3 May 2016

42mins

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Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses

Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Healt... Read more

6 Nov 2018

47mins

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Evidence isn't enough: The politics and practicalities of communicating health research

Evidence isn't enough: The politics and practicalities of communicating health research

The logic and principles behind the drive for evidence-based health care are so compelling that often the limitations of... Read more

27 Nov 2019

1hr 2mins

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Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases)

Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases)

Prof Neal Maskrey gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine seminar series. Decisions made in health care ... Read more

1 Jun 2016

1hr 3mins

Ranked #18

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How imperfect can a study be?

How imperfect can a study be?

Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Prac... Read more

5 Dec 2018

49mins

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