Evidence-based Medicine
Meet the nocebo effect, the placebo effect’s evil twin that makes you feel pain
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:44h | UTCMeet the nocebo effect, the placebo effect’s evil twin that makes you feel pain – VOX (free)
Opinion: Updating Wikipedia should be part of all doctors’ jobs
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:36h | UTCUpdating Wikipedia should be part of all doctors’ jobs – STAT (free) (RT @Onisillos)
Viewpoint – Knowledge for Precision Medicine: Mechanistic Reasoning and Methodological Pluralism
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:20h | UTCKnowledge for Precision Medicine: Mechanistic Reasoning and Methodological Pluralism – JAMA (free)
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 9 October 2017
11 Oct, 2017 | 01:37h | UTCRichard Lehman’s journal review, 9 October 2017 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Review: Challenges in the Design and Interpretation of Noninferiority Trials
7 Oct, 2017 | 22:27h | UTCSee also other articles in The Changing Face of Clinical Trials Series (all free)
“All too often non-inferiority clinical trials are a means of asserting false equivalence” (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)
Publishers go after networking site for illicit sharing of journal papers
7 Oct, 2017 | 21:46h | UTCPublishers go after networking site for illicit sharing of journal papers – Science (free)
Review: Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Nursing Education
7 Oct, 2017 | 21:40h | UTC
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 2 October 2017
3 Oct, 2017 | 21:53h | UTCRichard Lehman’s journal review, 2 October 2017 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Review: People’s outcomes should be analyzed in their original groups
1 Oct, 2017 | 16:20h | UTCPeople’s outcomes should be analyzed in their original groups – Students 4 Best Evidence (free)
Viewpoint: The Misuse of Meta-analysis in Nutrition Research
1 Oct, 2017 | 15:09h | UTCThe Misuse of Meta-analysis in Nutrition Research – JAMA (free)
‘One-size-fits-all’ threshold for P values under fire
1 Oct, 2017 | 15:07h | UTC‘One-size-fits-all’ threshold for P values under fire – Nature News (free)
Related: What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science — and how to fix it – VOX (free) AND Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value – Nature News (free) AND Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values – Nature News (free)
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 25 September 2017
25 Sep, 2017 | 22:22h | UTCRichard Lehman’s journal review, 25 September 2017 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Association of Trial Registration With Reporting of Primary Outcomes in Protocols and Publications
24 Sep, 2017 | 21:27h | UTCCommentaries: Discrepancy between trial goals, results may mask treatment risks – Reuters (free) AND Clinical Trials Often Unregistered, Unpublished – The JAMA Network (free)
Multivariate and network meta-analysis of multiple outcomes and multiple treatments: rationale, concepts, and examples
24 Sep, 2017 | 20:13h | UTCResearch Methods & Reporting: Multivariate and network meta-analysis of multiple outcomes and multiple treatments: rationale, concepts, and examples – The BMJ (free)
What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research
20 Sep, 2017 | 22:30h | UTC
Overviews of systematic reviews: great promise, greater challenge
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:53h | UTCOverviews of systematic reviews: great promise, greater challenge – Systematic Reviews (free) (RT @hildabast see Tweet)
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 18 September 2017
19 Sep, 2017 | 22:20h | UTCRichard Lehman’s journal review, 18 September 2017 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Review: Randomized, Controlled Trials in Health Insurance Systems
16 Sep, 2017 | 18:37h | UTCReview article: Randomized, Controlled Trials in Health Insurance Systems – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
See also other articles in The Changing Face of Clinical Trials Series (all free)
Empirical Consequences of Current Recommendations for the Design and Interpretation of Noninferiority Trials
16 Sep, 2017 | 17:53h | UTC
Opinion: Funders and regulators are more important than journals in fixing the waste in research
14 Sep, 2017 | 20:46h | UTC
Commentary: What’s Open, What’s Data? What’s Proof, What’s Spin?
14 Sep, 2017 | 18:41h | UTCWhat’s Open, What’s Data? What’s Proof, What’s Spin? – Absolutely Maybe (free blog post by Hilda Bastian)
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 11 September 2017
12 Sep, 2017 | 20:58h | UTCRichard Lehman’s journal review, 11 September 2017 (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Review: Mendelian randomisation in cardiovascular research
12 Sep, 2017 | 20:56h | UTCMendelian randomisation in cardiovascular research: an introduction for clinicians – Heart (free)
Free Online Course: Understanding Clinical Research – Behind the Statistics
11 Sep, 2017 | 01:05h | UTCStarts Today! Free Online Course: Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics – University of Cape Town and Coursera
Linear regression: a practical introduction
9 Sep, 2017 | 21:48h | UTCLinear regression: a practical introduction – Students 4 Best Evidence (free)