CASP News

Applications invited for a free place on CASP Train the Trainer workshop, Oxford 13-15 November 2017 The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) is working in partnership with the Department of Library & Information Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda to award a free place, on the CASP ‘Train the Trainer’ Course. This is a 3-day training programme designed for people who want to be more confident in teaching critical appraisal skills to others & critically appraising research evidence. The training covers an introduction to evidence-based health care and decision making and the critical appraisal of a quantitative study. To support critical appraisal [...]

CASP's next 'Train the Trainer' course has now been confirmed to take place from 23-26th March 2015 in Oxford, and you can confirm your place by booking now. This 4 day course will cover the critical appraisal of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews & qualitative studies. It will also have a session on how to find the evidence, in a dedicated IT suite. The broad aim of our train the trainer courses is to be able to be more confident in teaching the basic elements of critical appraisal to others - this may be back at your organisation or in a [...]

Heather Lodge (Public Health England) May 2015 There is something special about the Mawby room at Kellogg College, Oxford. You could be forgiven for finding it unprepossessing. It is quite a dark room with a good view of the car  park and the busy Banbury Road. At best, the room holds about 25 people and negotiating your way between the tables requires a dexterity of footwork that wouldn’t go amiss on Strictly Come Dancing. The room has no whizzy technology to enable group learning; it has simply a lectern, projector and flipchart but, much of the time, it doesn’t need even those. [...]

It’s International Clinical Trials Day. Watch the new AllTrials campaign video. And change something. Results from around half of clinical trials have never been published. Information on what was done and what was found in these trials could be lost forever to doctors and researchers, leading to bad treatment decisions, missed opportunities for good medicine, and trials being repeated. The contributions of the hundreds of thousands of patients who took part in those trials remain unused and unusable. All trials past and present should be registered, and the full methods and the results reported. Sign up to make clinical trials count. [...]

It’s International Clinical Trials Day. Watch the new AllTrials campaign video. And change something. Results from around half of clinical trials have never been published. Information on what was done and what was found in these trials could be lost forever to doctors and researchers, leading to bad treatment decisions, missed opportunities for good medicine, and trials being repeated. The contributions of the hundreds of thousands of patients who took part in those trials remain unused and unusable. All trials past and present should be registered, and the full methods and the results reported. Sign up to make clinical trials count. [...]