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)