Evidence-Based Health Care
Episodes
Misunderstandings and misuses of commonly-cited methods for systematic reviews & meta-analyses.
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Julian Higgins explains why he believes the systematic review and meta-analysis methods described in many highly cited papers are routinely ...
Not just "what," but also "how well:" Intervention fidelity in clinical trials of complex interventions in healthcare
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The concepts of intervention fidelity and how they can influence the results of clinical trials. The focus of clinical trials is typically interventio...
Stein's paradox
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jason Oke, gives a talk on Stein's work, the paradox and some of its more controversial results and consider the implications for evidence-based me...
How should we teach evidence-based medicine in the 21st century?
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Gordon Guyatt provides a guest talk on how we should teach evidence-based medicine in the 21st century This free guest lecture is part of the Teach...
The Role of Social Endometriosis Research in Improving Care and Addressing Intersectional Health Disparities
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Annalise Weckesser will discuss her qualitative studies exploring women’s experiences of endometriosis and doctors’ perspectives on treating th...
How do species postpone or even escape from senescence?
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez, Associate Professor in Ecology, Department of Zoology, gives a talk on lessons for a longer, better human life for the EBHC pod...
Evidence isn't enough: The politics and practicalities of communicating health research
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The logic and principles behind the drive for evidence-based health care are so compelling that often the limitations of evidence go unacknowledged. ...
Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both ...
Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics?
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health economics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than...
Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence...