A network for students interested in evidence-based health care

Benjamin Kwapong

I am currently a master's student (MRes Psychology) at the University of Manchester. I hope to be a clinical psychologist so I am interested in evidence-based treatments to inform my practice once I qualify. I am particularly interested in dementia research (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) so I want to increase my understanding of how evidence for interventions come about and how to best understand them.

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Tutorials and Fundamentals

All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported

This is the twenty-third blog in a series of 36 blogs explaining 36 key concepts we need to be able to understand to think critically about treatment claims.

Many fair comparisons never get published, and outcomes are sometimes left out. Those that do get published are more likely to report favourable results. As a consequence, reliance on published reports sometimes results in the beneficial effects of treatments being overestimated and the adverse effects being underestimated.

Tutorials and Fundamentals

Reviews of fair comparisons should be systematic

This is the twenty-first blog in a series of 36 blogs explaining 36 key concepts we need to be able to understand to think critically about treatment claims.

Reviews that do not use systematic methods may result in biased or imprecise estimates of the effects of treatments because the selection of studies for inclusion may be biased or the methods may result in some studies not being found. In addition, the appraisal of some studies may be biased, or the synthesis of the results of the selected studies may be inadequate or inappropriate.

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