Four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy nature.com/articles/d4158…

Multimorbilidade: será que os médicos de família conseguem identificar a situação clínica mais relevante para os seus doentes? Sim... em 54,9% dos casos. 😕 bmcfampract.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #observacional #evidentiamedica PS: estudo recuperado de 2018

What a fantastic thread about ecological studies! Great tips for those teaching introduction to epidemiology!

Very useful table summarizing the advantages and disadvantages of several of the measures used to compare different prognostic models. diagnprognres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #epidemiology

Thank you for spending the time to write it! I'll add your piece to my teaching resources for students of epidemiology.

It would be interesting to see what is the reality in European countries. When National Health Systems are struggling to provide care due to resource constraints, not addressing waste is unacceptable.

If you find that some Epidemiology trainees are more concerned with statistics methods than with the actual research question, you should read this paper. How much time is devoted to statistics and to asking research questions in your training program? #epitwitter

Thanks to all EGPRN! Sofia Baptista (in the picture) was the real star in this poster. And a huge thank you for everyone involved in the organization. EGPRN conferences are such a nurturing environment!

Very useful reference for those planning a systematic review of qualitative research. #epitwitter

How can Big Data and Epi mix? Qifang Bi and colleagues from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are here to answer your questions about integrating #machinelearning and #epimethods. SER Am J Epidemiology ow.ly/E4bR50wTTVy

Confused by artificial neural networks, support vector machines, bagging, boosting and their applications to epidemiology? This paper is a nice, readable introduction to these topics. #epitwitter

INPhINIT PhD fellowships calls from @BecarioslaCaixa are now open! Apply for one of 10 positions in CHRC, Portugal. Projects can be found in hosts.lacaixafellowships.org/finder . #epitwitter

Sajid et al. describe what happens when diagnostic tests used in the secondary level move to primary care: increased costs, overdiagnosis, false positives, spurious reassurance, and more. Dr Imran Sajid Kathleen Frost Ash Paul Link: ow.ly/dX9f50F9iKc

A CHALLENGE to ALL the Twitter nutrition gurus out there. This is a synopsis of the best cohort data I could find for different nutritional items. Would love for you to comment or correct (send me the evidence). For more info check out my new book here. nutritionproposition.com

Systematic reviews in a nutshell (3’23’’)! x.com/cochranecollab…

Evidence-based brunch nr.8: a refresher activity for our former students at the Critical Appraisal of Literature in Medicine (CALM) course. Our students choose the paper, we choose the brunch. Thanks Catarina Viegas Dias e Clara Jasmins for organizing it!!