Join the Crowdsourcing Critical Appraisal of Research Evidence (CrowdCARE) project to improve your ability to appraise research. What is this research about? The aim is to investigate the merit of crowdsourcing as an approach to critically appraising clinical research evidence. What will I be asked to do? Complete two online surveys relating to my confidence and competence […]
Tag: Research methods
What statistical analysis of observational performance data can tell us and what it cannot: the case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF vs AFI
By Simon Franklin, Jonathan Ospina Betancurt @JonathanOspinaB and Silvia Camporesi @silviacamporesi How can performance data resolve the arbitration of sensitive matters in the world of sports? In the absence of experimental data (i.e. clinical trials), researchers must build an argument based on associations in observational data. This data is often not widely available. Below, we’ll […]
Methods for identifying repeat treatment episodes and adjusting for risk factor transient exposures
Guest Blog by @CarolineFinch Cross Fertilising ‘Injury Prevention’ journal (IP) and BJSM Sports injury epidemiologists with a methodological bent will benefit from two papers published in the October issue of the BJSM’s sister journal, Injury Prevention. In the first paper, Davie et al. discuss how to identify re-admissions for the same injury from hospital discharge data. […]