September 28, 2012

Visualising health findings

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The Cochrane Collaboration are holding their annual conference in Auckland starting on Sunday.  They are a decentralised, grassroots effort to collate and summarise all randomised clinical trials, to make sure that the information isn’t buried, but is available to clinicians and patients.  The online Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is available free to anyone in New Zealand, thanks to funding from the DHBs and the Ministry of Health.  As with many organisations, they award a variety of prizes in their field of work.  In contrast to many organizations, one of the prizes is awarded for the best criticism of the organization’s work.

Anyway, the conference is an excuse to link to a video by the Cambridge “Understanding Uncertainty” group.  They are working on animations to further improve the summaries of health findings from the Cochrane systematic reviews.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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    Jason Felix

    I am frequently thankful to the Ministry of Health for enabling NZers access to the Cochrane Library. I have no idea who was involved, or how this was put through, but wow they really do deserve a hug.

    12 years ago