The 2018 Cochrane Colloquium will be held in Edinburgh at the International Conference Centre in Scotland from 16-18 September 2018. It will be hosted by Cochrane UK. Under the theme “Cochrane for all – better evidence for better health decisions”, this will be a Colloquium for everyone. It will welcome newcomers to Cochrane from all…
Read moreJointly hosted by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford and The BMJ, Evidence Live offers a platform that encourages debate on the current status and future directions of Evidence-Based Medicine. This annual conference provides a line-up of world leading speakers whose remit is to stimulate provoke entertain…
Read moreOur fellows Efstathia Gkioni and Ketevan Glonti wrote a commentary on the results of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in Sri Lanka testing the effect of two lifestyle modification programmes of different intensities in participants aged 6-40 with risk factors for T2DM, recently published by Wijesuriya et al. in BMC Medicine. The commentary was prepared after the…
Read moreThe TD1306 COST Action PEERE organises an interdisciplinary conference on peer review taking place on March 7-9, 2018 in Rome. The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share evidence on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of…
Read moreTwo MiRoR research fellows, Cecilia Superchi and David Blanco (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech, Spain) had the opportunity to interview Professor John Ioannidis, co-director of the Meta-research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). Research practices, quality in research and researcher commitment are among the topics covered in this inspiring interview. The transcript and the audio recording are…
Read moreSpotOn London is ready to push the boundaries of science communication and policy with a new one-day conference taking place on Saturday, 18 November 2017 at the Crick Institute in London. Hosted by BMC, Nature Research & Digital Science, SpotOn17 will be a dynamic, highly interactive meeting of researchers, science communicators, technologists, and those interested in science policy. At this…
Read moreAs a result of the second journal club organised by MiRoR in March earlier this year, the letter to editors submitted by Christopher Norman (CNRS) and Van Nguyen Thu (University Paris Descartes), supervised and guided by Aurélie Neveol from the LIMSI laboratory at CNRS, has been accepted and published online by the Medical Care Journal. MiRoR…
Read moreDuring the past few months the MiRoR consortium organized a series of training sessions: A webinar on meta-analyses and meta-epidemiology organized by Agnès Dechartres from the University Paris Descartes. Covering topics such as evaluation of heterogeneity, fixed effect and random effect models in meta-analyses, the webinar aimed to provide fellows with guidelines on how to conduct meta-epidemiological studies….
Read moreby David Blanco Three of the MiRoR fellows had the opportunity to present their research project at the International Society for Clinical Biostatistic Conference (ISCB) held in Vigo this summer. For David Blanco, a research fellow at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech (Spain), it was an enriching experience. Every year, the Annual Conference of…
Read moreOn September 19, 2017 the MiRoR consortium gathered together in Amsterdam for the first mid-term review meeting. Two Project Officers from the EU, Audrey Arfi and Laurence Marrama, together with Stefan Hofer, an external expert working at the Medical University of Innsbruck, were in charge of reviewing the project. After a brief presentation of the…
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