Talk Evidence - Sepsis, talc and blindsided by blinding
Welcome to the festive talk evidence, giving you a little EBM to take you into the new year. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University ’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence)*
This month:
(1.20) Carl tells us about new research on treating sepsis with steroids that might inform practice.
(4.58)Proscribing of prophylactic PPIs or H2-blockers for intensive care patients.
(11.00) Carl wonders if we can actually rule out an increased risk of ovarian cancer with the use of talc.
(17.46) Helen drops and EBM bombshell - i...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - January 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - Sepsis, talc and blindsided by blinding
Welcome to the festive talk evidence, giving you a little EBM to take you into the new year. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University ’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence)*
This month:
(1.20) Carl tells us about new research on treating... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - January 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Xmas Evidence
Welcome to the festive talk evidence, giving you a little EBM to take you into the new year. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University ’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence)
This month:
(2.00) Helen look back at a Christmas article, which... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 31, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Xmas Evidence
Welcome to the festive talk evidence, giving you a little EBM to take you into the new year. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University ’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence)
This month:
(2.00) Helen look back at a Christmas article, which investigates a very common superstition in hospitals.
(7.55) Carl has his pick of the top 100 altimetric most influential papers of the year.
(12.40) We find out all about the preventing overd iagnosis conference which happened earlier in December.
(34.15) Helen has her annual r...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 31, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Can people stop smoking by cutting down the amount they smoke first?
There are more than 50 Cochrane Reviews of the effects of interventions to help people quit smoking; one of which investigates whether reducing smoking before quitting might be an alternative to stopping suddenly. It was updated in September 2019 and we asked lead author, Nicola Lindson, from the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group based in the University of Oxford in the UK to tell us about their latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - December 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - aggravating acronyms, a time to prescribe, and screening (again)
Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).
This month Helen talks about the messy business of colon cancer screening - which modality is best, and in what population is it actually effective (1.40)
Carl talks about how the Netherlands did the right research at the right time to stop a new pregnancy scan before it became routine (10.35)
The Rant: acronyms in research papers (17.45)
Mini Rant: politicisation of the N...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - aggravating acronyms, a time to prescribe, and screening (again)
Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).
This month Helen talks about the messy business of colon cancer screening - which modality is... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - aggravating acronyms, a time to prescribe, and screening (again)
Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).
This month Helen talks about the messy business of colon cancer screening - which modality is best, and in what population is it actually effective (1.40)
Carl talks about how the Netherlands did the right research at the right time to stop a new pregnancy scan before it became routine (10.35)
The Rant: acronyms in research papers (17.45)
Mini Rant: politicisation of the NHS, ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Does motivational interviewing help people to quit smoking?
Smoking remains a substantial public health problem around the world and the search for effective ways to help people stop is ongoing, with more than 50 Cochrane Reviews providing evidence on a wide variety of interventions. One of these reviews, on motivational interviewing, was updated in July 2019 and the lead author, Nicola Lindson from the University of Oxford in the UK brings us up to date in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
A new way to look at behaviour change in UK GPs
In quality improvement, measurement is seen as a key driver of change - how well do you know you ’re doing, if you can’t actually measure it.
So, when something changes in the NHS (say a new guideline) how can you tell how quickly that’s filtering down to the front line.
Ben goldacre, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, joins us to t alk about a new proof of concept published on bmj.com, which uses NHS prescribing data to analyse how change propagated through GP practices.
Read the full open access research:
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5205https://open...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
A new way to look at behaviour change in UK GPs
In quality improvement, measurement is seen as a key driver of change - how well do you know you’re doing, if you can’t actually measure it.
So, when something changes in the NHS (say a new guideline) how can you tell how quickly that’s filtering down to the front line.
Ben goldacre, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, joins us to talk about a new proof of concept published on bmj.com, which uses NHS prescribing data to analyse how change propagated through GP practices.
Read the full open access research:
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5205
https://open...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - eating less, drinking less, drug approval data
Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).
This month Carl talks about evidence that restricting your diet might improve health at a... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence - eating less, drinking less, drug approval data
Talk Evidence is back, with your monthly take on the world of EBM with Duncan Jarvies and GPs Carl Heneghan (also director for the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford) and Helen Macdonald (also The BMJ's UK research Editor).
This month Carl talks about evidence that restricting your diet might improve health at a population level (1.50)
Helen talks about the data on a drop in alcohol consumption amongst Scots (7.04)
A listener questions the team about their take on Tramadol (13.45)
Helen talks about the problems wi th the trials we use to regulate drugs (18.00)
And Carl explains why drug sho...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
