Evidence-Based Medicine
How to tell whether a medical claim is supported — the most transferable skill in this domain.
11 topics · 2 curated works
Topics
- 01Levels of Evidence
- 02Randomised Controlled Trials in Medicine
- 03Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
- 04Number Needed to Treat
- 05Absolute vs Relative Risk
- 06Publication Bias
- 07Conflicts of Interest in Research
- 08Clinical Guidelines
- 09Shared Decision Making
- 10Overdiagnosis & Overtreatment
- 11Reading a Medical Paper
Curated reading
2Start here
No prior grounding assumed.
- BookBad ScienceBen Goldacre, 2008
Dissects how health claims get manufactured — from bad trials to worse journalism — and gives the tools to check them.
- BookTesting TreatmentsEvans, Thornton, Chalmers & Glasziou, 2011· Free
A plain-language guide to why fair tests of treatments are necessary and how to spot claims that lack them.
Also covered elsewhere
This subject genuinely sits in more than one domain. These fields approach the same ground with different methods.