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The Clinical Librarians offer 1-to-1 and team training sessions in effective literature searching, evidence-based practice, critical appraisal, and understanding statistics.

John King on john.king15@nhs.net for WHH, KCH, and South Kent Coast CCGs.

Jonathon Baker on jonathan.baker@nhs.net for QEQM and Thanet CCG area.

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OpenAthens is your key to freely accessing the majority of our information resources in full-text, such as articles, journals, and ebooks. When registering, use your NHS email address for automatic verification.

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The What is …? series aims to demystify some of the terminology, techniques and practices used to assess and act upon clinical and economic evidence in healthcare.

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JBI’s critical appraisal tools assist in assessing the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers.

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JBI's Evidence Synthesis Critical Appraisal Tools Assist in Assessing the Trustworthiness, Relevance and Results of Published Papers

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This article is going to summarise the most important statistical measures and tests used in medical research so that they can be understood when reading research papers. We will also discuss the indications for using some of the tests. We hope this will serve as more of a primer for medical statistics than a comprehensive review.

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Statistics for Medical Students | Geeky Medics

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An overview of the statistical topics medical students are expected to learn, including common statistical tests and important statistical formulas.

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Research and Innovation at East Kent Hospitals - Statistician Support

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Research and Innovation at East Kent Hospitals - Statistician Support

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The University of Kent provides a service to Research and Innovation, whereby they offer bookable support sessions with a statistician. To find out more speak to a member of their team.

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We know that Research and Innovation leads to better care and outcomes for patients and we want to place it at the heart of everything that we do. We are building a dynamic, wide-ranging, patient-centred, world class research portfolio offering all patients opportunities to participate in studies of the very latest treatments and therapies; ensuring East Kent Hospitals' position at the cutting edge of health care.

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Main page of the Research and Innovation team at East Kent Hospitals

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NIHR: Basic statistics and data interpretation

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NIHR: Basic statistics and data interpretation

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Do you regularly need to read statistical papers? Would you like to feel more confident about interpreting quantitative data or carrying out simple statistical analyses?

NIHR have some helpful videos:

1. Describing and summarising data

2. Confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, p-values

3. Statistical tests

4. Risks and odds

5. Correlation and linear regression

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Basic statistics and data interpretation - ARC West

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This face-to-face course is aimed at anyone working in health and social care who needs to interpret the more commonly reported statistics in academic papers and scientific reports.

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The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme provides several well-regarded and widely used checklists for several study types:

1. Randomised Controlled Trials

2. Systematic Reviews

3. Diagnostic Test Studies

4. Cohort Studies

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CASP - Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

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This set of eight critical appraisal tools are designed to be used when reading research. CASP has appraisal checklists designed for use with Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule.

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CASP - Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

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The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) enables you to systematically assess the trustworthiness, relevance & results of published papers. Learn more

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Methodological assessment of studies  selected as potential sources of evidence is based on a number of criteria that focus on those aspects of the study design that research has shown to have a significant effect on the risk of bias in the results reported and conclusions drawn. These criteria differ between study types, and a range of checklists is used to bring a degree of consistency to the assessment process:

1. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

2. Randomised controlled trials

3. Cohort studies

4. Case-control studies

5. Diagnostic studies

6. Economic studies

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Methodological assessment of studies selected as potential sources of evidence is based on a number of criteria that focus on those aspects of the study design that research has shown to have a significant effect on the risk of bias in the results reported and conclusions drawn. These criteria differ between study types, and a range of checklists is used to bring a degree of consistency to the assessment process.

These checklists were subjected to evaluation and adaptation to meet SIGN's requirements for a balance between methodological rigour and practicality of use.

Checklists

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Methodological assessment of studies selected as potential sources of evidence is based on a number of criteria that focus on those aspects of the study design that research has shown to have a significant effect on the risk of bias in the results reported and conclusions drawn.

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The Bottom Line has been built to create a compendium of all the landmark papers which are shaping the way we manage critically ill patients. Each paper has been summarised and critiqued using a standard template and ends with a ‘bottom line’ conclusion to allow a quick reminder of the key points. All papers are reviewed and cross checked by the editorial group.

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Welcome to The Bottom Line (TBL). This site has been built to create a compendium of all the landmark papers which are shaping the way we manage our critically ill patients. Each paper has been summarised and critiqued using a standard template and ends with a 'bottom line' conclusion to allow a quick reminder of the key points.

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The GATE Appraisal Tool: first PICO for relevance and applicability, then RAMMBO for biases and validity. Then consider the results and DISCUSS. And the presentation of the tool by the author Rod Jackson, for further info.

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One model for presenting a journal - no need to include EVERY aspect, and include extra slides with illustrations from the paper for visual interest. Just intended to guide the presentation and discussion, not a rigid format!

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JASP is a program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam. It is designed to be easy to use, and familiar to users of SPSS.

Available on the EKHUFT app launcher.

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Open Source Epidemiologic Statistics for Public Health

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Open Source Epidemiologic Statistics for Public Health

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Free and open source software for epidemiologic statistics - counts and measurements in descriptive and analytic studies, stratified analysis with exact confidence limits, matched pair and person-time analysis, sample size and power calculations, random numbers, sensitivity, specificity and other evaluation statistics, R x C tables, chi-square for dose-response, and links to other useful sites.

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Simple, easy-to-use, online statistical software at no charge.

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Dear User: While many statistical software packages charge a goodly sum to use their software, Stats.Blue brings you simple, easy-to-use, online statistical software at no charge. Choose the statistical procedure you'd like to perform from the links below.

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Dear User: While many statistical software packages charge a goodly sum to use their software, Stats.Blue brings you simple, easy-to-use, online statistical software at no charge. Choose the statistical procedure you'd like to perform from the links below.

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We don’t have SPSS available in the libraries, although you may have access through a university affiliation, if you have one. The 30 day free trial may be sufficient for a single project's needs (once per PC per year), so you might also get away with a short term use.

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IBM SPSS Statistics Trial , IBM account registration

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StatsDirect, does most, if not all, that you would expect SPSS to do (not quite as prettily perhaps). You can download a free 10 day trial which (a) lets you see if it is good enough for your needs, and (b) might actually be enough itself to do whatever analysis you have in mind.

Library Book

Statistical testing in practice with StatsDirect: research without tears or algebra by Davis C. Shelfmark

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StatsDirect statistical software for biomedical and public health research. Easy to use. Advanced algorithms. Well-documented. Established for over 25 years.