Evidence-Based Health Care

Jul 12 2024 103 ep. 42 mins 2.6k

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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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How stories shaped every aspect of our mixed methods study

Jul 12 2024 36 mins

Kirsten Prest discusses the 'Encompass' study on care for disabilities in Uganda and its wider application in the NHS, where narrative-driven mixed methods research shaped phases from grants to implementation This talk will explore how a small qualitative study was able to inform a wider body of work, which includes both qualitative and quantitative methods. It will be framed withi

Artificial Intelligence and Health Security, managing the risks

Apr 17 2024 50 mins

Professor Karl Roberts, University of New England, NSW, Australia gives a talk on generative AI and large language models as applied to healthcare. Dr Karl Roberts is the Head of the School of Health and Professor of Health and Wellbeing at the University of New England, NSW, Australia. Karl has over thirty years-experience working in academia at institutions in Australia, the UK a

Evidence-based dentistry: The building of the Dental Fact Box repository – OHA!

Oct 12 2023 53 mins

An introduction to OHA!, a tool currently being developed which aims to assist dentists in accessing the most reliable evidence regarding the effectiveness of common dental treatments. The OHA! repository has been purposefully crafted to be exceptionally selective and compact, ensuring that users can easily find straightforward and valuable answers to their dental clinical question

Speedy or sloppy?: The opportunities and challenges of rapid qualitative research

Jun 30 2023 51 mins

Using a variety of examples of fast and slow qualitative research this talk explores the affordances of rapid methods, and help researchers decide if and where to use them in their own work. Methodologies of rapid qualitative research have been around for decades, gaining particular prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic. They spark intense debate about the place of rapid qualitat

Realist inquiry in global health practice: trials, tribulations (& triumphs?)

Jun 08 2023 32 mins

Dr Sara Van Belle, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp gives a talk on the practice of realist inquiry in global health. Dr Sara Van Belle, Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp provides an overview of the practice of realist inquiry origins and points of attraction or interest for global health systems and policy research. Specific challenges are discussed

Testing usability and impact of the OxRisk prediction models

May 22 2023 37 mins

Professor Seena Fazel, University of Oxford gives a talk on recent advances in prognostic modelling in psychiatry. Professor Seena Fazel, a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford gives a talk gives a talk on recent advances in prognostic modelling in psychiatry. A number that examine risk for adverse outcomes, such as self-harm suicide, and violent crime, have

Alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Is moderate drinking really beneficial for cardiovascular disease?

May 22 2023 39 mins

Dr Derrick Bennett, University of Oxford gives a talk on the epidemiological evidence of alcohol and cardiovascular disease. Dr Derrick Bennett, Associate Professor at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, presents an overview of the epidemiological evidence of alcohol and cardiovascular disease (CVD), describes how bias may have impacted on this obser

Evidence in Women's Health: Coil contraceptive - what is it and what are the potential harms for women?

Mar 23 2023 20 mins

In this episode EBHC DPhil Director, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr. Anne Marie Boylan discuss intrauterine contraception commonly known as the coil. Given the uncertainty around who feels pain, they speak with Dr Neda Taghinejadi, a sexual and reproductive health doctor and academic clinical fellow, who specialises in fitting coils for those who have had problems having them fitted b

The medical occupational outcomes of military mental health patients. A closed-cohort study

Mar 08 2023 50 mins

Surgeon Commander Charlotte Evans is Royal Navy Hudson Visiting Fellow at St. Anthony's College and gave a talk about her dissertation work in relation to military mental health patients. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Evidence in Women's Health: Evaluating a community singing intervention for postnatal depression

Feb 10 2023 37 mins

Dr Alexandra Burton reports on the SHAPER-PND study exploring singing's effect on postnatal depression in new mothers Singing has shown positive effects on maternal mood and mother–child bonding. The Scaling-Up Health-Arts Programmes: Implementation and Effectiveness Research-Postnatal Depression (SHAPER-PND) study will analyse the clinical and implementation effectiveness of a 1