IRG Pre-Conference Workshop – HTAi13

Check this advertisement out! I have to say that I am feeling very chuffed. Who knew that an event our group organised would have an advertisement like this! Many thanks go to Sally Wood of EAHIL.

Free EBM ebooks

Three free e-books for citizens who like to prevent unnecessary interventions in Clinical Medicine and Public Health:

• Testing Treatments
• Smart Health Choices: making sense of health advice
• Know Your Chances

http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/testing-treatments.html

New AHRQ Effective Healthcare Program publication

Evaluating Practices and Developing Tools for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy: Methods for the Joint Meta-Analysis of Multiple Tests.

To access this report, please visit: http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/search-for-guides-reviews-and-reports/?pageaction=displayproduct&productID=1380&ECem=130116

Evidence Live 2013

Evidence Live  is on again from March 25th to the 26th 2013 @ The University of Oxford in the UK. If you can’t make the conference, there are some great web video talks that you can listen to for free.

• Evidence and the Media: Ben Goldacre
• Effective Medical Testing: Patrick MM Bossuyt
• Communicating the Benefits and Harms of Prescription Drugs – Steve Woloshin
• Fit and the Translation of Evidence into Clinical Care – Victor Montori

If you create a free account for yourself, you can access a whole range of quality talks.

The Nocebo Effect Explained

An article from the July 23 2012 Smithsonian Magazine explains in easy to understand language what the nocebo effect is. Read it here.

Latest issue of the ISEHC newsletter

The July 2012 newsletter of the International Society for Evidence-based Health Care is now available.

If you are interested in submitting an article for the January ISEHC newsletter – an editorial, a teaching tip or exercise, an EBM resource review, a regional report, or an original research or viewpoint piece, please email one of the editors:
Paul Glasziou – Paul_Glasziou AT bond.edu.au / Gordon Guyatt -  guyatt AT mcmaster.ca / Jason Busse – j.busse AT rogers.com

Table of Contents
EDITORIALS
International Society of Evidence Based Health Care Inaugural Conference Cartoon
TEACHING & PRACTICE TIPS
Do you know good short videos on EBM topics?
EBM meets shared decision making – an interview with Victor Montori
RESEARCH & REVIEWS
How can we efficiently identify when an update systematic review is needed?  7 Selected Abstracts
RESOURCES & REVIEWS
Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011         10
WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
ISEHC Conference           11
Evidence Live 2013          12
Overdiagnosis Conference 2013                13
6th International Conference for EBHC Teachers and Developers 2013    13
7th International Shared Decision Making Conferences  2013      13

Twitter medical libraries chat

Join an informal chat about medical library issues on Twitter at #medlibs 11am Friday Melbourne time (9pm Thursday EST). Interested in finding out more about it before jumping in? View transcripts of previous chats here and the schedule here.