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How stories shaped every aspect of our mixed methods study |
Kirsten Prest discusses the 'Encompass' study on care for disabilities in Uganda and its wider application in the NHS, where narrative-driven mixed methods research shaped phases from grants to implementation |
Kirsten Prest |
12 Jul 2024 |
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Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research? |
For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative researcher's methodological toolkit. |
Cassandra Phoenix |
08 Apr 2019 |
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Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future |
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. |
Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
28 Jan 2019 |
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How imperfect can a study be? |
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'. |
Alan Silman |
05 Dec 2018 |
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Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco control and her particular interests lie in evidence synthes |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
06 Nov 2018 |
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The jugglers and the black cat |
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. |
Kerina Jones |
31 Jul 2018 |
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Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain |
In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be necessary, even in surgical trials. |
Karolina Wartolowska |
02 Jul 2018 |
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Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business? |
Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Katherine Pollard |
24 Jan 2018 |
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Resuscitating poor quality research |
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. |
Carl Heneghan |
17 Jan 2017 |
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Trials and Tribulations in Africa |
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Merlin Willcox |
15 Nov 2016 |
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Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases) |
Prof Neal Maskrey gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine seminar series. |
Neal Maskrey |
01 Jun 2016 |
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Why on earth do we waste so much research? |
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 research is wasted. |
Kamal Mahtani |
01 Jun 2016 |
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10 Top tips for doing applied healthcare research: How to get started |
Carl Heneghan gives a talk held on January 11th 2016 Kellogg College. |
Carl Heneghan |
29 Jan 2016 |
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What has EBM done for healthcare? |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series. |
Carl Heneghan |
22 Oct 2015 |
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Managing large scale international clinical trials |
Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Barbara Farrell shares from her wide experience. |
Barbara Farrell |
06 May 2015 |
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Storytelling in diabetes: a mixed-methods study |
The patient as storyteller and the story as ‘self management’ |
Trish Greenhalgh |
07 Apr 2015 |
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Research impact: the new jargon for knowledge to action |
If we are going to take impact seriously, we need to be clear about the philosophical assumptions underpinning different kinds of research and also the different kinds of links between research, practice and policy. |
Trish Greenhalgh |
26 Mar 2015 |
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The Campaign for Real EBM Evidence Based Medicine |
Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk on the crisis facing evidence based medicine and offers a solution for its rennaissance within healthcare. |
Trish Greenhalgh |
24 Mar 2015 |
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EBM - What it is, what it isn't, how might you contribute? |
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 for changing health care. |
Carl Heneghan |
01 Dec 2014 |