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Can video games improve our health?
There are a lot of claims and counter claims about the potential benefits or harms of video games. In attempt to address these conflicting messages, the journal Games for Health recently publised a review of the evidence. In this post, … Continue reading
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Beinahe täglich berichten Zeitungen und Fachzeitschriften von neuen effektvollen Behandlungsmethoden oder diagnostischen Tests. Dadurch werden bei den LeserInnen Erwartungen, aber auch Ängste und Sorgen geweckt, und Verantwortliche im Gesundheitsbereich geraten oft unter Handlungsdruck. Wie aber steht es mit den Fakten … Continue reading
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HealthyScepticism
HealthyScepticism is a web-portal to improve the public’s health literacy skills and access to evidence based information. Researcher Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren presented an abstract describing HealthyScepticism to our Conference in April 2011.
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Testing Treatments
Testing Treatments is a book and website in multiple languages that addresses some pressing questions in modern clinical research. How do we know whether a particular drug, therapy or operation really works, and how well? How reliable is the evidence? … Continue reading
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Tagged Book, Critical appraisal, Informed choice, Scientific method, Understanding risk
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Behind the Headlines
Behind the Headlines (UK) is a service of NHS Choices that analyses the accuracy of newspaper reports of health research. NHS Choices is the patient information website of the UK National Health Service. The focus of Behind the Headlines is … Continue reading
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Bad Science
Bad Science is a blog by public health doctor and journalist Ben Goldacre that focuses on media hype around health care. The blog is produced independently but is syndicated to the Guardian newspaper. Bad Science covers all aspects of health … Continue reading
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Evidence-based Medicine tutorial
This Evidence-based Medicine tutorial is a web tutorial by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA. It is aimed at students and health professionals. The tutorial is text-based with boxes where users can type in their answers to questions. There … Continue reading
Evidence-based Behavioral Practice: Bridging research and practice
Evidence-based Behavioral Practice: Bridging research and practice houses a collection of educational resources aimed at health professionals working in the area of behaviour change. The resources are accessed through a web portal for which you have to register. Registration is … Continue reading
Introduction to evidence based medicine
Introduction to evidence based medicine is a web tutorial by Boston University in the USA. The tutorial gives a basic introduction for health professionals and links to supplementary resources. It takes around five minutes to complete. The tutorial covers: How … Continue reading
Evidence-based Practice Tutorial for Nurses
Evidence-based Practice Tutorial for Nurses is a static web tutorial created by Pennsylvania State University in the USA. The tutorial focuses on four steps of evidence-based practice: Step 1 - Convert your information need into an answerable question Step 2 - Find … Continue reading
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