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Using Health Evidence™ for best available evidence

In the second in our series of articles reviewing the health evidence tools produced by McMaster University, Harkanwal Randhawa examines Health Evidence™, a database of systematic reviews around the subject of public health.
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Healthcare Triage: “To the Research!”

YouTube video series by Dr. Aaron Carroll called Healthcare Triage, where his motto is, “To the Research!”
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NEW campaign: What’s the Evidence?

We are launching a new, year long campaign to promote students globally to ask What’s the Evidence?
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Less is More: The dangers of too much medicine

Thankfully, this “less is more” idea seems to be a movement gaining serious momentum in the medical world to “wind back the harms of too much medicine”.

Choosing Wisely: Things healthcare providers and patients should question

Dannky Minkow describes a new initiative aimed at getting health care professionals to take another look at their use of non evidence-based and wasteful practices.
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Shared Decision Making and EBM

The relationship between Shared Decision Making and EBM; two separate disciplines or not? Read Ammar’s piece on this subject and have your say.

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Oral medical history vs questionnaires

Advancing techniques and mechanization in every field has led to newer computer or written questionnaires in the field of medicine.
One often is confused whether to rely on these questionnaires or carry out oral history taking which has been prevalent for ages?
here’s an insight to it through various researches…
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Back to uni: survival tips from Ashline

University can be tough. Ashline gives some useful tips for getting back into uni and coping to the end of the year!
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Wikipedia now and in the future of healthcare

Next time you visit your doctor you may find that they’re relying on Wikipedia. I went to India to find out why this isn’t as scary as you might think, and how much everyone’s favourite free encyclopaedia is revolutionising the world of medicine.
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Dr Wikipedia or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love editing

I did it. I’ve been inducted. Ascended to a higher plain of existence. Yes, that’s right: I am now a Wikipedia editor. And it actually wasn’t that hard.
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Back to Uni: My top 10 health apps to make your study & research easier

Here are 10 of the multiple available health apps to improve your efficiency in clinical practice and research. Most of them are free, enjoy…
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The Evidence Based Medicine problem and what to do about it

Key message:  Evidence Based Medicine is useful for informing healthcare professionals what works, what doesn’t, and helping to determine if the benefits outweigh the harms, but it’s far from perfect. There are valuable lessons learned about research that we can share across disciplines. What is the Evidence Based Medicine problem? In 2005, Dr. John Ioannidis, a […]

The Nocebo Effect

Ever heard of the Placebo effect’s evil twin; the Nacebo Effect? A harmful reaction from a harmless treatment. Read Danny’s blog to know more.
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The Placebo Effect

Do placebos really promote physiological change or is it just the patient’s perspective? How are placebos used in practice? And how ethical is it to use placebos in clinical trials?
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Clinical Evidence Made Easy, a book review

In search of a book with simple, comprehensible definitions and examples of clinical evidence? Do you want to take the first step in understanding common terms in clinical evidence as well as commonly used methods and their pitfalls? This review will inform you if this is the book you’re looking for.
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