Evidence-Based Health Care

Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series. EBM has been transformational for healthcare, however, currently it is poorly understood how this has occurred over time. Using Heart Attack as an example, Prof Carl Heneghan will demonstrate and discuss how EBM has saved lives, and invite the audience to consider the consequence of a health system without evidence. More informatiopn can be found here; www.cebm.net/what-has-ebm-done-for-healthcare/

Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. She studied Medical, Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford before training as an academic GP.

Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Barbara Farrell shares from her wide experience.

The patient as storyteller and the story as ‘self management’

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.

Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk on the crisis facing evidence based medicine and offers a solution for its rennaissance within healthcare.

Dr Helen Ashdown is a GP and Clinical Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. During her clinical academic training, she designed and led a study to investigate whether pain on going over speed bumps when travelling to hospital is a good diagnostic test for appendicitis. This was published in the 2012 Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal. She will describe her own bumpy journey through the process of answering a clinical question - navigating the tortuous course from research question, ethics, study design and recruitment through to Christmas radio shows.

This talk will introduce the realist review methodology as a strategy for combining qualitative and quantitative data to answer the question “what works, for whom, and in what circumstances” This methodology is proving popular in addressing questions around complex and social interventions. The talk will provide a brief overview of approaches to synthesizing qualitative and quantitative research for mixed methods reviews, discuss approaches to dealing with different study types in realist reviews, and question the adequacy of published studies when developing theory for complex interventions.

The need to generate systematic reviews is relatively uncontroversial and until recently so were the methods of production. The presentation will highlight a number of problems associated with the current system and propose a radical departure to ensure we meet Archie Cochrane's desire to see all RCTs included in critical summaries.

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. This talk will give you an understanding of how you might get involved in the modern era of EBM improvement and what you could do to support the application of evidence into practice.