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Understanding Health Research: A tool for making sense of health studies
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Short Description:
An interactive online tool designed to help anybody to understand scientific health research evidence.
Key Concepts addressed:- Cartoons
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- 1-8 More is not necessarily better
- 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based
- 1-7 Beware of conflicting interests
- 2-10 Peer-review and publication does not guarantee reliable information
- 2-4 Comparison groups should be treated equally
- 2-12 Subgroup analyses may be misleading
- 2-14 Average measures of effects can be misleading
Details
Trying to make sense of health research?
This tool will guide you through a series of questions to help you to review and interpret a published health research paper.
The tool is designed to be used with scientific research articles, rather than media stories or other reports about research. You need to read the original research so that you can appraise it for yourself instead of relying on someone else’s interpretation. People use various names to refer to scientific research articles, including articles, papers, and manuscripts.