Evidence-Based Health Care
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How stories shaped every aspect of our mixed methods study
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsten Prest discusses the 'Encompass' study on care for disabilities in Uganda and its wider application in the NHS, where narrative-driven mixed me...
Artificial Intelligence and Health Security, managing the risks
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Karl Roberts, University of New England, NSW, Australia gives a talk on generative AI and large language models as applied to healthcare. Dr...
Evidence-based dentistry: The building of the Dental Fact Box repository – OHA!
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to OHA!, a tool currently being developed which aims to assist dentists in accessing the most reliable evidence regarding the effectiv...
Speedy or sloppy?: The opportunities and challenges of rapid qualitative research
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Using a variety of examples of fast and slow qualitative research this talk explores the affordances of rapid methods, and help researchers decide if ...
Realist inquiry in global health practice: trials, tribulations (& triumphs?)
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Sara Van Belle, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp gives a talk on the practice of realist inquiry in global health. Dr Sara Van Belle, Resear...
Testing usability and impact of the OxRisk prediction models
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Seena Fazel, University of Oxford gives a talk on recent advances in prognostic modelling in psychiatry. Professor Seena Fazel, a Professor ...
Alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Is moderate drinking really beneficial for cardiovascular disease?
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Derrick Bennett, University of Oxford gives a talk on the epidemiological evidence of alcohol and cardiovascular disease. Dr Derrick Bennett, Assoc...
Evidence in Women's Health: Coil contraceptive - what is it and what are the potential harms for women?
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode EBHC DPhil Director, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr. Anne Marie Boylan discuss intrauterine contraception commonly known as the coil. Gi...
The medical occupational outcomes of military mental health patients. A closed-cohort study
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Surgeon Commander Charlotte Evans is Royal Navy Hudson Visiting Fellow at St. Anthony's College and gave a talk about her dissertation work in relatio...
Evidence in Women's Health: Evaluating a community singing intervention for postnatal depression
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Alexandra Burton reports on the SHAPER-PND study exploring singing's effect on postnatal depression in new mothers Singing has shown positive effec...
Evidence in Women's Health: Why is endometriosis difficult to diagnose?
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss evidence around delays in diagnosis of endometriosis and speak with Dr Annalise Weckesser and Dr Sharon Dixon, who have both researched end...
Evidence in Women's Health: Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) - What are the risks, benefits and experiences for women?
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EBHC DPhil Director, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr. Anne Marie Boylan discuss menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) In this episode EBHC DPhi...
Heart Failure in Primary Care: Lessons from Big Data
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Clare J Taylor, Academic GP, explores how we can use large, anonymised GP datasets to improve our understanding of heart failure management in prim...
Evidence in Women's Health: Are there higher mortality rates in women who have been operated on by male surgeons?
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022 a Canadian population based retrospective cohort study hit the headlines in the U.K. by claiming that women were 32% more likely to die if ope...
Sporadic, late-onset, and multi-stage diseases
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anthony Webster, University of Oxford gives a talk on combining mathematical modelling with big data statistics to distinguish between sporadic, la...
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...
How do you carry out a realist synthesis of an intervention when there's 'no evidence'?
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joanne Greenhalgh, Professor of Applied Social Research Methodology (University of Leeds) on the experiences of conducting a realist synthesis of the ...
The messy realities of qualitative health research
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anne-Marie Boylan and Dr Laura Griffith, explore the value of qualitative health research and discuss what it's really like to undertake qualita...
Leading and teaching Evidence-Based Health Care
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kamal Mahtani and David Nunan interview Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University,...
Exploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part Two
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kamal Mahtani continues his interview with Professor Carl Heneghan, discussing where your motivation as a leader comes from, succession plan...
Exploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part One
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kamal Mahtani interviews Professor Carl Heneghan, exploring his leadership; how it all started, the challenges he has faced, emotional intel...
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...
Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect di...
When meta-analyses of the same question find different things
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce discusses a case study of systematic reviews of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, looking across meta-analyses in t...
Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it’s time for a UK Sunshine Act
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ ...
Health Policy Evaluation
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Karla Hemming discusses using evidence-based policy in the evaluation of policy interventions and answers the question 'how useful is the st...
Realist research in practice - informing a new TB policy in Georgia
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Bruno Marchal gives a talk illustrating the principles of realist evaluation using the case of the development of a new Tuberculosis control...
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. ...
Operationalising the potential of Applied Digital Health research
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The increased reliance of health systems on the digital record as the primary mechanism for storing data on consultations and other health interaction...
Everything is a poison
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, gives a talk on dose-response...
Safe and effective drugs: The need to use all the available evidence to inform the effectiveness of commonly used medicines
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, employs evidence-based methods to research diagnostic reasoning, test accuracy and communicating ...
Diabetes, blood sugar, and red wine: a personal study
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This talk was delivered by Martin Bland. Martin Bland joined the University of York as Professor of Health Statistics in 2003, retiring and becoming E...
The secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it *really* like doing qualitative observation in operating rooms, ambulances, triage call centres and other health care settings?
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years' experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, ...
Big data in heart failure - opportunities and realities
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension and heart attacks)...
Behavioural Interventions to Improve the Quality of the Grocery Shopping
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This evening lecture is given in conjunction with the Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods accredited short course, part of the Evidence-...
The BMJ's open data campaign
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of The BMJ, gives a talk for the EBHC podcast series Fiona Godlee is the Editor in Chief of The BMJ. She qualified as a...
Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the B...
Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research?
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative res...
Size matters a tous les temps, a tous les peuples
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Martyn Sene is Deputy CEO of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), here, he gives an introduction to the importance of measurement and metrology...
The role of network meta-analysis in the evaluation of antidepressants for depression
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Cipriani is NIHR Research Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the NHS Found...
Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and th...
Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. He has published widely wi...
The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, ...
How imperfect can a study be?
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the rec...
Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxfo...
Can antibiotics make you pregnant?
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.
History of evidence synthesis
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.
Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. Patients are being let down by serious flaws in the creation, dissemina...
The jugglers and the black cat
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client. Using...
Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blind...
The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. Carol Lefebvre will address the shift in focus over the last 20 years a...
Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure. This presentation w...
The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis?
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine. The ...
Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference?
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen. Professor Trish...
Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research
05 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues th...
Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or car...
Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business?
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. This talk focuses on mixed methods research in health care educati...
The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for ...
Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit. His main research interest is in the design, con...
How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine. In our soci...
And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic?
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course. Realist synthesis has positioned itself as a potentially va...
Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis
15 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. Qualitative researchers employ a range of different approaches to con...
A little known law of numbers
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series,
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...
Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial m...
Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical ...
Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. Hard tho...
Wye speling matturs
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Aronson presents a light-hearted talk on spelling in systematic reviewing. Jeff is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at the O...
Wye speling matturs (Slides)
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Aronson presents a light-hearted talk on spelling in systematic reviewing. Jeff is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at the O...
Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, an...
Resuscitating poor quality research
17 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing upt...
Trials and Tribulations in Africa
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. Merlin’s research focuses on global health, particularly primary health car...
Better evidence for better health care
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme.
The point of qualitative research
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases)
01 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why on earth do we waste so much research?
01 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 res...
Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine How did we get here and how do we get out of the mess
03 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme
Breathalysers, babies and bumps on the road: delving into diagnostic studies
03 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Talk by Dr Helen Ashdown regarding three rather different diagnostic studies People: Helen Ashdown
10 Top tips for doing applied healthcare research: How to get started
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 Styl...
What has EBM done for healthcare?
22 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series. EBM has been transformational for healthcare, however,...
Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above the ontological desert of ‘behaviour change’ research
05 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and ...
Managing large scale international clinical trials
06 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Barbara Farrell shares from her wide experience.
Storytelling in diabetes: a mixed-methods study
07 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The patient as storyteller and the story as ‘self management’
Research impact: the new jargon for knowledge to action
26 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If we are going to take impact seriously, we need to be clear about the philosophical assumptions underpinning different kinds of research and also th...
The Campaign for Real EBM Evidence Based Medicine
24 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk on the crisis facing evidence based medicine and offers a solution for its rennaissance within healthcare.
From inspiration to publication: bumps along the road (as part of the Postgraduate Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care)
03 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Helen Ashdown is a GP and Clinical Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. During her clinical...
Realist Review: Mixing Method
01 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This talk will introduce the realist review methodology as a strategy for combining qualitative and quantitative data to answer the question “what w...
Systematic Reviews, the need for change
01 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The need to generate systematic reviews is relatively uncontroversial and until recently so were the methods of production. The presentation will hig...
EBM - What it is, what it isn't, how might you contribute?
01 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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 fo...
An introduction to Medical Statistics with Carl Heneghan and Rafael Perera
09 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Carl Heneghan talks to Rafael Perera about medical statistics and gives an introduction to the subject.
A behavioural perspective of translating evidence to policy and practice
16 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, UCL, gives a talk at Kellogg College for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
How Youtube is being used as a platform to share opinions and experiences of a controversial treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
16 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon O'Neill, DPhil Candidate, PCHS, gives a lecture on treating Multiple Sclerosis and how social media is being used to share experiences of pati...
Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics
26 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics.
MSc in EBHC: Introduction to the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care
28 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Annette Pluddermann, Senior researcher DPCHS, gives an introduction to the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care
A Welcome to the Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care
07 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Carl Heneghan, the Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, gives a brief welcome to the Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care.
An introduction to the Masters in Evidence-Based Health Care
07 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon Mickan, a Knowledge Translation Fellow in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, gives an introduction to the Masters in Evidence-Based Health...
Know4Go - EBM lecture
24 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Janet Martin, Director of Health Technology Assessment, London Health Services Centre gives a special lecture for EBM entitled; Know4Go: An Instrum...
The Information Revolution
24 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Office, NHS, gives a special guest lecture for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
The Future of Evidence Based Medicine
24 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, gives a special lecture on the future of EBM.
Interpreting Results - Stats in Small Doses
24 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Amanda Burls delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine.