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Shared Decision-Making
This outstanding resource from the Health Foundation shows, with voice, text and video, how shared decision-making can be made to work in a typical consultation. Both patients and professionals will...
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Don’t just take their word for it: Ask for Evidence
Sense About Science’s new campaign puts you in the driving seat in tackling misleading or inaccurate claims about new treatments. Ask for Evidence helps you to find out whether a policy, newspaper...
View ArticleHealthTalkOnline: People’s experiences of clinical trials
HealthTalkOnline contains a wealth of information about people’s experiences of health problems, care and research. Badged as providing “information and support from other people, in the same...
View ArticleThe Gold Standard: What are randomised controlled trials and why are they...
This four minute video by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit explains what clinical trials are, what they aim to do and why randomisation is important. The video covers: The importance...
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Patients, the Public, and Research: a TTi guide
This section of Testing Treatments interactive has been created to help patients and members of the public who wish to promote better research for better health care. We’ll be developing this section...
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ECRAN: Video and slide presentation introducing clinical trials
This lay-friendly video was created by the European Communication on Research Awareness Needs (ECRAN) Project. The engaging 5-minute animation is available in 23 languages and is aimed at a lay...
View ArticleRoutine use of unvalidated therapy is less defensible than careful research...
In this YouTube video, John Lantos explains a dangerously flawed ethical analysis which results in it being much harder to obtain consent for a clinical trial to test an untested treatment than it is...
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Absolute versus relative risk – making sense of media stories
This great blog by Sarah Williams of Cancer Research UK is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand “risk” in the context of health and medical stories in the press. The blog will be of...
View Article7 words (and more) you shouldn’t use in medical news
A webpage explaining how dramatic effects of medical treatments are rare Visit the page here The post 7 words (and more) you shouldn’t use in medical news appeared first on Testing Treatments...
View ArticleDISCERN online
An online questionnaire to support critical appraisal of evidence View the questionnaire here The post DISCERN online appeared first on Testing Treatments interactive.
View ArticleIntroduction to Critical Appraisal
A Powerpoint presentation introducing Critical Appraisal Introduction to Critical Appraisal from Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries The post Introduction to Critical Appraisal appeared first on...
View ArticleFinding and appraising the evidence
An online course teaching how to find and appraise reliable evidence Visit the lesson here The post Finding and appraising the evidence appeared first on Testing Treatments interactive.
View ArticleCEBM – Study Designs
A short article explaining the relative strengths and weaknesses of different types of study design. Study Designs The post CEBM – Study Designs appeared first on Testing Treatments interactive.
View ArticleScience fact or fiction? Making sense of cancer stories
A website explaining how to assess the quality of health claims about cancer. View the site here The post Science fact or fiction? Making sense of cancer stories appeared first on Testing Treatments...
View ArticleMixed Messages about Statistical Significance
A webpage explaining the difference between statistical and practical significance Visit the page here The post Mixed Messages about Statistical Significance appeared first on Testing Treatments...
View ArticleAbsolute vs. relative change
A tutorial video explaining the differences between relative and absolute effects The post Absolute vs. relative change appeared first on Testing Treatments interactive.
View ArticleOverdiagnosis bias
A video explaining the harms and risks of overdiagnosis bias and screening The post Overdiagnosis bias appeared first on Testing Treatments interactive.
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