Liz O’Riordan reflects on the Cochrane Review 'Communication skills training for healthcare professionals working with people who have cancer' from her perspective as both breast surgeon and someone with recurrent breast cancer.
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Contemplating Cancer: a special series from Cochrane UK
Introducing 'Contemplating Cancer', Cochrane UK's special series of blogs and other resources sharing cancer evidence and experience.
Priority Setting Partnerships: celebrating 16 years of work to reduce research waste
Caroline Whiting reflects on the milestone of 100 completed Priority Setting Partnerships and the importance of this work with patients, carers and clinicians for making research relevant and useful.
Web accessibility and Evidently Cochrane: making our blog more accessible to all
Students at City University, London carried out an evaluation of Evidently Cochrane to assess how accessible the site is for people with various impairments. This blog explains the key changes we have since made to improve the blog's accessibility.
Treatments can harm
This blog explores a number of cautionary examples, reminding that all treatments have potential harms. We should consider the evidence not just about whether a treatment works, but whether it is safe. This is the third blog of our special series on Evidently Cochrane: “Oh, really?” 12 things to help you question health advice.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers: new Cochrane evidence
Sarah Chapman looks at new Cochrane evidence on personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect healthcare workers from infections such as COVID-19 (coronavirus)
Pet therapy for older people in care homes: what’s the evidence?
Sarah Chapman blogs some recent evidence on pet therapy
Involving young people in a meta-synthesis in research: #CochraneForAll interview with Erin Walker and Katrina Brooks
This is a transcript of a podcast interview with Erin Walker and Katrina Brooks conducted by Douglas Badenoch about involving young people in a meta-synthesis. Recorded at the Cochrane Colloquium 2018.
Involving patients in developing guidelines: #CochraneForAll interview with Lyubov Lytvyn
Casey Quinlan from Beyond The Room Team at the #CochraneForAll Colloquium, 2018, interviews Lyubov Lytvyn, a PhD student at McMaster University, about involving patients in research to guide the development of evidence-based recommendations.
Realistic medicine: #CochraneForAll interview with Gregor Smith
This is a transcript of a podcast interview with Gregor Smith, general practitioner and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, conducted by Casey Quinlan @MightyCasey. Recorded at the Cochrane Colloquium 2018 .
Watch your language! Promoting clear communication at #CochraneForAll
How can we promote good communication at the Cochrane Colloquium, #CochraneForAll, which starts on Sunday? Sarah Chapman reflects on some things speakers can do to help.
Life after stroke: a special series from Cochrane UK
Sarah Chapman introduces #LifeAfterStroke, a special series of blogs, and other material, that will include Cochrane evidence, ongoing research and the perspectives of stroke survivors, researchers and health professionals on life after stroke.