Just follow the science: A government response to a pandemic.
Published in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
COVID‐19 – how a pandemic reveals that everything is connected to everything else
Published in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
COVID ‐19 policy measures—Advocating for the inclusion of the social determinants of health in modelling and decision ma...
Published in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Don't panic, it is only an emergency.
Published in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
No big data without small data: learning health care systems begin and end with the individual patient.
Published in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Unpacking the process of interpretation in evidence-based decision making.
Published in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Balancing health care evidence and art to meet clinical needs: policymakers' perspectives
Published in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Rationale, aims and objectives Although many believe that evidence-based practice (EBP) has great potential, critics have identified limitations including a focus on randomized clinical trial (RCT) evidence to the exclusion of other evidence types and a disregard for the art of medicine. Others have argued, however, that proper application of EBP i...
Can individuals with a significant risk for cardiovascular disease be adequately identified by combination of several ri...
Published in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Rationale, aims and objectives Clinicians are generally advised to consider several risk factors when evaluating patients' cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Our aim was to study whether combined assessment of five traditional risk factors might help doctors demarcate a relatively distinct and manageable group of high-risk individuals. We selected ...
Combined bias suppression in single-arm therapy studies
Published in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Rationale, aims and objectives For therapy evaluation studies, control groups are sometimes not feasible. In single-arm studies, various bias factors apart from the test therapy can affect clinical outcomes. The objective of this analysis was to improve the methods to minimize bias in single-arm studies. Method We present a procedure for combined s...
Impact of quality circles for improvement of asthma care: results of a randomized controlled trial.
Published in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Quality circles working with individualized feedback are effective at improving asthma care. The trial may have been underpowered to detect specific benchmarking effects. Further research is necessary to evaluate strategies for improving the self-management of asthma patients.
