In my first post on this blog, I set myself 3 PhD-related goals for 2017. One of those goals was to read more widely, and more frequently, and I decided that doing the #365papers challenge would be a good way to do that.
This month’s reading has not been great – in order to get the 30 papers for June read to the level I wanted to, I ended up dedicating a few days at the end of the month to get them all complete. This month has been a busy one; I went to Evidence Live for 2 days (blog posts here for day 1 and day 2), and this month seems to have been really heavy with meetings. July is looking a bit quieter so fingers crossed I won’t end up cramming at the end of next month too!
June’s reading:
- Can we rely on the best trial? A comparison of individual trials and systematic reviews
- Science in the social media age
- Communicating data about the benefits and harms of treatment: A randomised trial
- Tweeting and rule breaking at conferences
- Evolution of poor reporting and inadequate methods over time in 20,920 randomised controlled trials included in Cochrane reviews: research on research study
- How scientists engage the public
- Influence of social media on the dissemination of a traditional surgical research article
- Recruiting adolescent research participants: in-person compared to social media approaches
- How are scientists using social media in the workplace?
- Through the looking glass: understanding non-inferiority
- The need for consensus, consistency, and core outcome sets in perioperative research
- Bias due to changes in specified outcomes during the systematic review process
- Confidence intervals illuminate absence of evidence
- Research funders pledge to make trial results publicly available
- US to impose tougher rules on reporting clinical trial data
- A methodological approach for assessing the uptake of core outcome sets using clinicaltrials.gov: findings from a review of randomised controlled trials of rheumatoid arthritis
- Anonymising and sharing individual patient data
- How to translate clinical trial results into gain in healthy life expectancy for individual patients
- Sparse data bias: a problem hiding in plain sight
- Exploring patients’ treatment journeys following randomisation in mental health trials to improve future trial conduct: a synthesis of multiple qualitative data sets
- What do usability evaluators do in practice? An explorative study of think-aloud testing
- Getting access to what goes on in people’s heads? Reflection on the think-aloud technique
- Think-aloud protocols: a comparison of three think-aloud protocols for use in testing data-dissemination web sites for usability
- Evidence based medicine manifesto for better healthcare
- Thinking aloud: Reconciling theory and practice
- Barriers to participation in randomised controlled trials: a systematic review
- Clinical trials: the challenge of recruitment and retention of participants
- Increasing recruitment to randomised trials: a review of randomised controlled trials
- Principles of recruitment and retention in clinical trials
- Engaging veterans with substance abuse disorders into a research trial: success with study branding, networking, and presence