Making sense of results – CASP

Format: Nederlands

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Language/s: 3-6 Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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Resource Link: Visit the Website

Target Audience: 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

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3-2 Are you very different from the people studied?

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Short Description:

This module introduces the key concepts required to make sense of statistical information presented in research papers.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 2-13 Relative measures of effects can be misleading
• 1-3 Association is not the same as causation
• 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based
• 1-5 Newer is not necessarily better
• 1-9 Earlier is not necessarily better
• 1-7 Beware of conflicting interests
• 1-8 More is not necessarily better

Details

This module introduces the key concepts required to make sense of statistical information presented in research papers – it is not intended to teach you how to do statistics but rather how to assess critically and interpret the statistics presented by others. (3 hours)