Thursday, December 27, 2012

Random or fixed effects?/ Efectos fijos o efectos aleatorios?

One of the decisions to be taken when performing a systematic review is whether to choose a random or fixed effects model. Very briefly, a fixed effects model is chosen if the studies in the metaanalisys are homogeneous, and random effects model is preferred otherwise. This video illustrates the question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laviboNorXk

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Una de las decisiones que hay que tomar cuando se lleva a cabo una revisión sistemática es si se debe escoger un modelo de efectos fijos o de efectos aleatorios. De manera muy resumida, se escogen efectos fijos si los estudios incluidos en el metaanálisis son homogéneos, y efectos aleatorios en caso contrario. Este vídeo ilustra la cuestión.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laviboNorXk

Webinar on Revman (Cochrane) / Webinario sobre Revman (Cochrane)

Revman is the free program by the Cochrane Collaboration to perform systematic reviews. This is a 2012 Youtube tutorial from the Canadian Cochrane Network, by John MacDonald.

Revman tutorial (click here)

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Revman es el programa gratuito de la Cochrane Collaboration para la realización de revisiones sistemáticas. Este es un vídeo tutorial de Youtube, de la Canadian Cochrane Network, por John MacDonald.

Revman tutorial (click here)

Friday, December 7, 2012

Data Transparency

An interesting link shared by Prof. Amanda Burls (University of Oxford), to a youtube vídeo on tge Workshop on Clinical Trial Data and Transparency, from the European Medicines Agency.
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Interesante enlace compartido por la profesora Amanda Burls (University of Oxford), de un vídeo de youtube sobre el Taller sobre Datos y Transparencia de Ensayos Clínicos, de la Agencia Europea de Medicinas.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

More on Bayesian inference and the Bayes Theorem/ Más sobre Inferencia Bayesiana y el teorema de Bayes

 Sharon Bertsch McGrayne makes a lovely presentation (click here) on Reverend Thomas Bayes and his theorem at the The Singularity Summit held in New York in 2011.

Allen Downey features a lesson on Bayesian Inference made as simple as possible. This is his blog.

The MIT offers a class on Bayesian inference here. The second part is offered here.

This is the article on Bayes´ Theorem at the Stanford Enciclopaedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/
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Monday, December 3, 2012

GAPMINDER

GAPMINDER is a beautiful tool for statistical data display, created by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling. The latter is a professor at the Karolinska Instutet, and we have had some very interesting presentations by him in previous threads of the blog.

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 GAPMINDERes una bella herramienta para la representación de datos estadísticos, creada por Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund y Hans Rosling.
Este último es porfesor del Karolinska Instutet y ya hemos visto algún vídeo muy interesante realizado por él en entradas previas del blog.


How can Healthcare learn from aviation safety?

National Patient Safety Foundation 2012 meeting, by Jeff Skiles, First Officer of US Airways Flight 1549, and Rollin "Terry" Fairbanks, physician and healthcare safety expert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaydVvH7S4E

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 ¿Cómo puede aprender la sanidad de la seguridad aeroespacial? 

Reunión de la National Patient Safety Foundation en 2012, con by Jeff Skiles, Primer Oficial del vuelo US Airways 549, y Rollin "Terry" Fairbanks, médico y experto en seguridad sanitaria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaydVvH7S4E

Patient Safety Checklists

This is a link to a youtube video where Dr. Peter Pronovost discusses the science of improving patient safety. Dr. Pronovost is an anesthesiologist and Intensive Care physician, and a professor at Johns Hopkins. He has made an outstanding contribution to Medicine with a safety checklist for Intensive Care Units.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxkz-WeV_w

More on him at this article from The Lancet:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609614392.pdf?id=e16241398b8eb460:-6247bb0e:13b5fe0ac55:-39c1354526563123

About his checklist:
http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/210/
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He aqui un enlace a un vídeo de youtube donde el Dr. Peter Pronovost habla sobre la ciencia de mejorar la seguridad de los pacientes. El Dr. Pronovost es anestesiólogo y especialista en Mecinia Intensiva, y profesor en Johns Hopkins. Su "checklist" para Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos ha sido una contribución sobresaliente a la medicina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxxkz-WeV_w

Más sobre él en este artículo del Lancet:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609614392.pdf?id=e16241398b8eb460:-6247bb0e:13b5fe0ac55:-39c1354526563123

Sobre su "checklist":
http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/210/