Evidence Live and Kicking (Part 1)

“Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?” That 2014 editorial by Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues echoed through the hallways leading up to this year’s Evidence Live conference, on now at Oxford University. Day 1 down, and the question is well … Continue reading »

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Mind Your “p”s, RRs, and NNTs: On Good Statistics Behavior

P is for pandemonium. And a bit of that broke out recently when a psychology journal banned p-values and more, declaring the whole process of significance testing “invalid”. There’s a good roundup of views about this development from statisticians over at the Royal … Continue reading »

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Good to Know: Which Websites Can Reduce Anxiety and Depression?

Before we go on, you should know there are no sunshine-y quick fixes coming in this post. The kind of websites we’ll be looking at take a lot of effort. And there’s no guarantee the effort will pay off. There … Continue reading »

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