trialschangelives.bsky.social
Posting about health and social care research, randomised trials and systematic reviews. Based in Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
👤 Joined on 10 February 2025
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@trialschangelives.bsky.socialAhoy! Ways to recruit people to randomised trials can themselves be tested in randomised trials. A newly updated Cochrane Review looks back at the evidence from 91 studies with more than 175,000 participants, which tested 65 recruitment strategies. www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
Show PostSilverman wrote about his trials for newborns in a James Lind Library commentary 👇a year before he died, aged 87 in 2004. Later, in recognition of his questioning of the evidence base for many medical practices, @cochrane.org named a prize after him. 8/8 www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/per...
Show PostOn World Hepatitis Day, visit the James Lind Library to read Jon Pollock's illustratrion of the use of the factorial design in a fair test of treatments for #hepatitis in the 1940s 👇 www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/con... #WorldHepatitisDay #MedHist #HistoryOfMedicine #RCT
Show PostWant to learn about the history of systematic reviews? Watch this 51 minute video 👇, produced and edited by Lorcan Clarke, and presented by his father Mike, Co-ordinating Editor of the James Lind Library www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pys...
Show PostWhat to do when experts don't know the answer as.ft.com/r/3945735e-e...
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