Asides

The articles in this section come from a series of articles that I wrote for Update magazine in 2005/6 and for Pulse in 2001 as well as a few other articles which are relevant when critically appraising the medical literature.

• How to make sense of a Cochrane systematic review (BREATHE 2014)
• Randomised Controlled Trials (Update Article 2006)
• Cohort studies (Update Article 2006)
• Retrospective studies (Update Article 2005)
• Study Design (Update Article 2005)
• Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (Prescriber 2003)
• Measuring the costs and effectiveness of treatment (Prescriber 2003)
• Using Evidence in Practice – An introduction to Evidence Based Medicine (Prescriber 2003)
• Combining the results from Clinical Trials (Pulse Article 2001)
• The perils and pitfalls of sub-group analysis (Pulse Article 2001)
• Relative or Absolute measures of effect (Pulse Article 2001)
• Evidence from Randomised Trials and Systematic Reviews (Pulse Article 2001)
• Do I need to change my practice (Pulse Article 2001)?
• Asking a good question (Pulse Article 2001)
• Antibiotics ‘no use’ for acute cough: an example of biased reporting (Pulse Article 1999)
• Reporting Results of Studies: can passive smoking really be good for you? (Pulse Article 1999)
• Can you trust what you read? Why we need Randomised Trials (Pulse Article 1999)

This section contains a series of articles on critical reading. Six of these were originally written for Pulse magazine in 2001 and have been edited in 2016. There are also articles from a series in Update in 2005. Other articles highlight bias that can occur in the way that research is reported and draw attention the sort of problems that may be worth looking for when reading the medical literature.

• Can you trust what you read? Why we need Randomised Trials (Pulse Article 1999)
• Reporting Results of Studies: can passive smoking really be good for you? (Pulse Article 1999)
• Antibiotics ‘no use’ for acute cough: an example of biased reporting (Pulse Article 1999)
• Asking a good question (Pulse Article 2001)
• Do I need to change my practice (Pulse Article 2001)?
• Evidence from Randomised Trials and Systematic Reviews (Pulse Article 2001)
• Relative or Absolute measures of effect (Pulse Article 2001)
• The perils and pitfalls of sub-group analysis (Pulse Article 2001)
• Combining the results from Clinical Trials (Pulse Article 2001)
• Using Evidence in Practice – An introduction to Evidence Based Medicine (Prescriber 2003)
• Measuring the costs and effectiveness of treatment (Prescriber 2003)
• Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (Prescriber 2003)
• Study Design (Update Article 2005)
• Retrospective studies (Update Article 2005)
• Cohort studies (Update Article 2006)
• Randomised Controlled Trials (Update Article 2006)
• How to make sense of a Cochrane systematic review (BREATHE 2014)