Joining forces with diverse groups of people can help produce high-quality systematic reviews more quickly and efficiently, according to a new report from THIS Institute. Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms – even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers […]
Archives for June 2018
GP as a career? Dr John Benson and Cambridge medical students explain why they wouldn’t choose anything else
Watch this short film to discover what it’s like to study medicine at Cambridge and see why Cambridge medical students are considering GP as a career. Please share: the film is for science-minded young people who like the idea of becoming a GP and for medical students who are interested in GP as a career. […]
Winners and losers? The challenges of communicating policy options
“To make policy decisions that align with our goals and values, we need to understand the expected outcomes of the different options. In this paper, we review existing communications of policy options, guidance for design, and evidence for effectiveness across a wide range of domains,” said Professor Theresa Marteau, introducing this review of policy option […]
CanTest Research Associate Marije van Melle on her new systematic review of transitional patient safety
Patient safety interventions are often criticised for just being implemented without proof of effect. To prove efficacy we need to be able to measure patient safety so we can first identify the problems, address them and then assess whether implemented interventions have the desired effect. My just published systematic review for PLOS ONE was part […]
What makes social life possible? How the human brain connects with the complex social world around us
The social lives of humans shape and influence biological processes taking place in our brains, according to a new theoretical framework linking sociological thinking with insights from neuroscience. The new framework, from Professor Mike Kelly, sociologist at the Primary Care Unit and Professor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience and colleagues from the […]
A simple questionnaire could be a cost-effective way to monitor for melanoma skin cancer
Melanoma is rare, but also the most dangerous form of skin cancer, with around 14,500 new cases diagnosed and 2600 deaths in the UK each year. Early detection is critical: overall, around 90 in every 100 patients with melanoma will still be alive five years after diagnosis. But for those diagnosed with advanced disease, only […]