Evidence-Based Health Care

Oct 24 2024 8 ep. 40 mins 182

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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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Stein's paradox

Oct 24 2024 34 mins

Dr Jason Oke, gives a talk on Stein's work, the paradox and some of its more controversial results and consider the implications for evidence-based medicine Dr Jason Oke, Principal Statistician at Abbott Diabetes Care, was previously a senior statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. He has a wealth of experience in applying stat

How should we teach evidence-based medicine in the 21st century?

Oct 03 2022 21 mins

Dr Gordon Guyatt provides a guest talk on how we should teach evidence-based medicine in the 21st century This free guest lecture is part of the Teaching Evidence-Based Practice module, part of the Oxford University Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) programme. About the speaker: Dr Gordon Guyatt is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatist

The Role of Social Endometriosis Research in Improving Care and Addressing Intersectional Health Disparities

Jul 01 2022 41 mins

Dr Annalise Weckesser will discuss her qualitative studies exploring women’s experiences of endometriosis and doctors’ perspectives on treating the condition and how to improve care. This episode explores what this research, and the growing body of social research on endometriosis more generally, contributes to efforts to improve care and address health disparities at the inter

How do species postpone or even escape from senescence?

Nov 01 2020 55 mins

Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez, Associate Professor in Ecology, Department of Zoology, gives a talk on lessons for a longer, better human life for the EBHC podcast series.

Evidence isn't enough: The politics and practicalities of communicating health research

Nov 27 2019 62 mins

The logic and principles behind the drive for evidence-based health care are so compelling that often the limitations of evidence go unacknowledged. Despite a strong evidence base demonstrating the health risks associated with higher body weights, and health professionals routinely instructing patients to lose weight to improve their health, the incidence of obesity is predicted to

Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future

Jan 28 2019 51 mins

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. Mike Clarke and Iain Chalmers [1], Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library and Fellow of CEBM), Carl Heneghan ( Professor of EBM and Director C

Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics?

May 16 2018 25 mins

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? Health economics is concerned with how to allocate resources in healthcare to optimise outcomes. Health economists have developed a variety of methods to evaluate whether th

Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World

Oct 13 2017 32 mins

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 This talk will present a simple effective appraisal system based on two first steps to rapidly appraise and sift the evidence fo