You’ve cracked the first step with data – you can tell if its continuous or discrete. As you progress to stats nirvana, you need to delve more deeply into the stuff. […]
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StatsMiniBlog: Continuous vs. Categorical
So – in response to a tweet from @DocNadine Archi will be attempting to do a series of short posts on some ‘stats’ things. What would you like to see covered? A short and simple one today. Continuous vs. Categorical […]
Picket line
Do you remember we started looking out for new studies, important studies, that would change the way we thought about paediatric practice, or confirmed that we didn’t need to? It was back in 2010 and we’ve not stopped. But we’d like to hear from you if you want to join in. […]
Sometimes the best available isn’t so
There’s an issue with EBM. It’s that it relies on the best available evidence. So what if the best evidence is deliberately obscured, hidden behind a paywall, or subject to the precursor to publication bias (“can’t be arsed” bias, where the folk performing an investigation don’t have the motivation to write up, present, and submit their work for publication). […]
Guest Post: Ten pitfalls of small group teaching
A guest blog post from Nadine McCrea Recently I had the pleasure of facilitating an evening seminar on small group teaching. We had a lot of fun, spending most of the time having discussions and undertaking tasks in a variety of bizarrely named set-ups (snowballing anyone?). We identified that small group teaching provides huge […]
Is sim training enough?
In a new article in the ADC a group of authors from Liverpool, UK, have examined the retention of newborn resuscitation skills following a simulation-based training programme (NLS – Newborn Life Support). They undertook extensive follow-up of participants and turned up ‘on the job’ and re-examinined the health care professionals at their place of work. They showed […]
So what is the difference between PubMed and Medline?
For quite a while now I’ve been convinced that for practical, non-academic research purposes PubMed is the best primary database to use. (I’m also convinced you shouldn’t be using it unless 1. You’ve checked a summary site like www.tripdatabase.com first or 2. Your speciality is so specialised that you’ve never found anything useful doing this […]
Think systems.
So this is a quick video introduction to a theme we’ll be visiting on & off, probably forever, about the psychology of cognition — how we think — and how this affects our medical decisions. This link came from Neil Maskrey via the EBH listserv, and if you’ve not seen it before watch it with […]
How the internet has changed things
I remember a time when doing EBM required a trip to the hospital library, because that was the only place with a 6-CD changer that held Medline. Behind the table with The Computer on it was the start of a bank of bookshelves that held the Index Medicus – printed Medline – and enough dust […]
What’s in a name Part II
Following my previous post on the use of first names, and entirely by coincidence, the folk over at St Emlyns blogged on a very similar subject, but extended the discussion a little to what your patients should call you. I pulled up short about in discussing this before and I’ve been wondering why since. How […]