Evidence-Based Health Care

The broad aim of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine is to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to doctors and health care professionals to help maintain the highest standards of medicine.

Many of the talks are taken from the Oxford Evidence-Based Health Care Programme and delivered by members of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, the Centre of Evidence Medicine and leaders in the field of Evidence-based Health Care internationally.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Can antibiotics make you pregnant?	Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Jeffrey Aronson	29 October, 2018
History of evidence synthesis	Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Mike Clarke	29 October, 2018
Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Carl Heneghan	10 October, 2018
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 July, 2018
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	2 July, 2018
The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data	Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series.	Carol Lefebvre	26 June, 2018
Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality	Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure.	Annalise Weckesser	22 June, 2018
Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics?	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?	Muir Gray, Lucy Abel	16 May, 2018
The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis?	Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine.	Alexander Bird	11 April, 2018
Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference?	A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen.	Trish Greenhalgh	2 March, 2018
Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research	Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research.	Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers	5 February, 2018
Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests	Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories.	Phil Turner	30 January, 2018
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 January, 2018
The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based	Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals. Here he gives a talk on improving healthcare systems.	Muir Gray	19 January, 2018
Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly	Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit.	Jonathan Cook	6 December, 2017
How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research	Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine.	Paul Aveyard	28 November, 2017
And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic?	Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course.	Andrew Booth	24 November, 2017
Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis	Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series.	John MacArtney	15 November, 2017
A little known law of numbers	Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series,	Jeffrey Aronson	20 October, 2017
Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World	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	Carl Heneghan	13 October, 2017
Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help	Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research.	Shaun Treweek	10 July, 2017
Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities	In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods.	Felicity Bishop	10 July, 2017
Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto	The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine.	Carl Heneghan	12 April, 2017
Wye speling matturs	Jeffrey Aronson presents a light-hearted talk on spelling in systematic reviewing. Jeff is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at the Oxford University Department for Primary Health Care.	Jeffrey Aronson	29 March, 2017
Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis	Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise.	Carl Heneghan	27 January, 2017
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 January, 2017
Trials and Tribulations in Africa	Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Merlin Willcox	15 November, 2016
Better evidence for better health care	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme.	Carl Heneghan	31 October, 2016
The point of qualitative research	Prof Aksel Tjora, Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme.	Aksel Tjora	23 June, 2016
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	1 June, 2016
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	1 June, 2016
Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine How did we get here and how do we get out of the mess	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme	Carl Heneghan	3 May, 2016
Breathalysers, babies and bumps on the road: delving into diagnostic studies	Talk by Dr Helen Ashdown regarding three rather different diagnostic studies People: Helen Ashdown	Helen Ashdown	3 May, 2016
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 January, 2016
What has EBM done for healthcare?	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series.	Carl Heneghan	22 October, 2015
Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above the ontological desert of ‘behaviour change’ research	Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Trish Greenhalgh	5 August, 2015
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	6 May, 2015
Storytelling in diabetes: a mixed-methods study	The patient as storyteller and the story as ‘self management’	Trish Greenhalgh	7 April, 2015
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 March, 2015
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 March, 2015
From inspiration to publication: bumps along the road (as part of the Postgraduate Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care)	Dr Helen Ashdown is a GP and Clinical Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.	Helen Ashdown	3 December, 2014
Realist Review: Mixing Method	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”	Janet Harris	1 December, 2014
Systematic Reviews, the need for change	The need to generate systematic reviews is relatively uncontroversial and until recently so were the methods of production.	Jon Brassey	1 December, 2014
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	1 December, 2014
An introduction to Medical Statistics with Carl Heneghan and Rafael Perera	Dr Carl Heneghan talks to Rafael Perera about medical statistics and gives an introduction to the subject.	Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera	9 August, 2013
A behavioural perspective of translating evidence to policy and practice	Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, UCL, gives a talk at Kellogg College for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Susan Michie	16 July, 2013
How Youtube is being used as a platform to share opinions and experiences of a controversial treatment for Multiple Sclerosis	Brandon O'Neill, DPhil Candidate, PCHS, gives a lecture on treating Multiple Sclerosis and how social media is being used to share experiences of patients.	Brandon O'Neill	16 July, 2013
Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics	Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics.	Carl Heneghan, John Balla	26 June, 2013
MSc in EBHC: Introduction to the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care	Annette Pluddermann, Senior researcher DPCHS, gives an introduction to the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care	Annette Pluddermann	28 May, 2013
A Welcome to the Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care	Dr Carl Heneghan, the Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, gives a brief welcome to the Programme in Evidence-Based Health Care.	Carl Heneghan	7 February, 2013

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