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Guest Blog: Addressing Child Poverty
This Guest Blog, by Caoimhe McKenna, David Taylor-Robinson, Sophie Wickham, Benjamin Barr and Rosie Kyeremateng, addresses the highly political issue of defining child poverty, within the UK context. We would welcome any and many comments on this blog, and via our usual social media channels! (As always, the libellous and frankly spamming will be blocked, but […]
StatsMiniBlog: Choosing a test
This is a very, very simple approach to picking a method of analysis for a research study (that’s looking at one comparison, and with lots of caveats – this is VERY simple) … but as a start, you may as well go with this picture. (Or in a bigger format – click here: blog – […]
Is breathlessness worth reporting at all?
Again, deliberate bait in the title which I do hope you’re all used to by now … But the question arose when I started to look at this paper published in the Archives, addressing the question of observer variation in clinical assessment of wheezy kids. Mostly, I think wheeze = mediastinal mass (fast onset -> T-cell […]
Guest Blog: The trials and tribulations of answering clinical questions
For a recent evidence based paediatrics assignment we had to answer and present a clinical question. I’m sure you are well acquainted with the process; construct your question in standard PICO format, search your secondary and primary sources, critically appraise the evidence and draw your conclusions. Having noted a trend towards starting lamotrigine rather than […]
Basics: Another way to look at it all
While the theory of different styles of learning (kinetic, verbal, visual etc etc ) may be thoroughly garbage it’s pretty much true that folk often prefer one way of getting their learning. Some like listening – catch our podcasts for that – others doing – so we have #ADC_JC – and many readers of this blog […]
Practical Authorship: Should I write a Case Report?
Should you write a case report? There is a short answer here, and there is a long answer. I will give you the short answer, but only if you promise to read the rest. The short answer is “no”*. The longer answer is… […]
Guest blog: “To Play or not to Play”?
Play in its most intimate of forms allows for free expression, exploration, joy, and excitement . For others it’s a welcome distraction. What makes play become a tool, a balance barometer, a universal subject, is when it is introduced or offered to a child/young person (CYP) who requires an intervention, treatment or one who is […]
Practical Authorship: Who is Reading?
If you write, who is reading? Something I find strange is that people don’t draw on their own experience of reading when they begin to write. As such, they often don’t write in a way that they themselves would be drawn to. Let me start here with a couple of questions. Please answer […]
StatsMiniBlog: Cluster analysis
Lumps and groups and clumps and factors … all sorts of ways of describing how Things Can Be Similar. Cluster analysis is a statistical term that refers to an approach – not a particular method – that seeks to work out how to group items together so those in the same group are maximally similar […]