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Issue 14 | August 2022 (next issue October 2022)

Cochrane Early Career Professionals Network - Next Webinar

Cochrane US mentoring program: past experiences and future possibilities/challenges
Date: 30 August 2022
Time: 16:00 BST (view in your time zone)
Language: English
Register: Register for free!

Podcast Recommendation

Keep it casual with the Casual Inference podcast hosted by Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray, who talk about all things epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, and public health. Sponsored by the American Journal of Epidemiology. You will find interesting interviews like a recent one with Sander Greenland.

🔗 Casual Inference Podcast

TED Talks to keep you thinking...

In this very interesting talk, Mona Chalabi speaks about how statistics can be represented in many ways and some of them may be misleading. We highly recommend it!

🔗 Mona Chalabi - 3 ways to spot a bad statistic.

Recommended Paper(s)

Evidence-Based Medicine debate on P-values, interesting papers debating this ancient dilemma.

🔗 On reporting and interpreting statistical significance and p values in medical research

🔗 Best way not to misuse p values is not to draw definitive conclusions about hypotheses

GRADE Tutorials

Interpreting results of network meta-analyses: the GRADE minimally contextualized approach.

🔗 Part 1 - "A brief introduction to GRADE approach and network meta-analysis"

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Learning Live is a series of monthly webinars open to everyone and an archive of previous webinars. Upcoming webinars:

- Writing a review protocol - good practice and common errors (1 September, 2022)

- Updated GRADE guidance for imprecision rating using a minimally contextualized approach (13 September 2022)

- Searching clinical trials registers: guide for systematic reviewers (September 21, 2022)

Cochrane Starter Pack

TaskExchange - Use your skills to help authors complete reviews

Cochrane Crowd - Volunteer to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence

Online learning - Resources relevant to systematic reviews and evidence-based medicine

Interactive Learning (Cochrane account required) - how to conduct a systematic review

Evidence Essentials (free but Cochrane account required) - introduction to health evidence

Learning events - find information about upcoming training (in-person and online)

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