What to do when the evidence tells you something you don’t want to know?

Seminar - 28 March 2008

The emerging evidence base for clinical, communication, public health and organisational interventions can create challenges for both policy and practice. This seminar explored dilemmas and options for action where evidence has not provided expected answers.

Sessions and presenters included:

Seminar overview (168kb, ppt) - Dr. Sophie Hill, Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group

Where evidence challenges popular opinion. The Albumin fluid resuscitation and breast cancer screening examples (2.38mb, ppt) - Associate Prof. Russell Gruen, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Australian Satellite of the Cochrane EPOC Group

The evidence is not relevant locally (1.49mb, ppt) - Prof. Sally Green, Australasian Cochrane Centre

Moving from good evidence to good practice (666kb, ppt) - Prof. Jeremy Grimshaw, Cochrane EPOC Group; Canadian Cochrane Centre and NICS Visiting Expert

The seminar was a collaborative initiative of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group, the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group, the Australasian Cochrane Centre, and the Department of Human Services Victoria, Statewide Quality Branch.

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