Evidence-Based Health Care

Storytelling (https://www.storytellingevaluation.co.uk/about) is a qualitative evaluation method developed by the Old Fire Station, Oxford. It aims to centre the experience and voices of people most closely involved in or impacted by a piece of work, and uses collaborative, reflective processes to determine impact and learning. This talk will introduce the method, share what the Old Fire Station h...

Professor Julian Higgins explains why he believes the systematic review and meta-analysis methods described in many highly cited papers are routinely misunderstood or misused. Julian Higgins is Professor of Evidence Synthesis at the Bristol Evidence Synthesis, Appraisal and Modelling (BEAM) Centre at the University of Bristol. His research has focussed on the methodology of systematic review and m...

The concepts of intervention fidelity and how they can influence the results of clinical trials. The focus of clinical trials is typically interventions' efficacy, or whether they attain their desired outcomes. Comparatively less attention is focused on understanding how or why interventions succeed, or fail to attain, those outcomes. This may be particularly important in trials of complex interve...

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 medicine Dr Jason Oke, Principal Statistician at Abbott Diabetes Care, was previously a senior statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. He has a wealth of experience in applying statistics and data...

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 Teaching Evidence-Based Practice module, part of the Oxford University Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) programme. About the speaker: Dr Gordon Guyatt is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster Uni...

Dr Annalise Weckesser will discuss her qualitative studies exploring women’s experiences of endometriosis and doctors’ perspectives on treating the condition and how to improve care. This episode explores what this research, and the growing body of social research on endometriosis more generally, contributes to efforts to improve care and address health disparities at the intersections of gender a...

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 podcast series.

The logic and principles behind the drive for evidence-based health care are so compelling that often the limitations of evidence go unacknowledged. Despite a strong evidence base demonstrating the health risks associated with higher body weights, and health professionals routinely instructing patients to lose weight to improve their health, the incidence of obesity is predicted to continue to ris...

Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary. Mike Clarke and Iain Chalmers [1], Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library and Fellow of CEBM), Carl Heneghan ( Professor of EBM and Director CEBM) and Kamal M...

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 only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare? Health economics is concerned with how to allocate resources in healthcare to optimise outcomes. Health economists have developed a variety of methods to evaluate whether the cost of provid...

The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health This talk will present a simple effective appraisal system based on two first steps to rapidly appraise and sift the evidence for its relevance...