Trials Change Lives
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Trials Change Lives
@trialschangelives.bsky.social
Posting about health and social care research, randomised trials and systematic reviews. Based in Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
#CochraneDaily Cochrane Collaboration output over three decades: Analysis (subject to verification) of Cochrane Database of #SystematicReviews since 1995 shows 3-yearly output of new & updated @cochrane.org reviews is similar to 25 years ago, with annual average of approximately 350 reviews
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Here they are
September 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#CochraneDaily 13 years after #Cochrane Review provided the design of a randomised trial of the health effects of electric fans during heatwaves, why is there no "on the shelf" trial to provide the evidence?
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
#ElectricFan #Fan #Heatwave #EvidenceSynthesis #RCT
June 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#CochraneDaily Just published! Research from @mcwlliamssbmi.bsky.social‬ uses a novel approach to explore the geographic diversity of authors in #Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, over time
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #EvidenceSynthesis #Diversity
June 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#CochraneDaily On #Red4Research Day, there are several Cochrane Reviews of interventions to help people to join and stay in randomised trials. Go to CochraneLibrary.com and search "recruitment or retention and trials" in title, to find them #RCT #CochraneReviews
June 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
#CochraneDaily Whether you feel lucky or unlucky this Friday the 13th, find time to read the James Lind Library article on the importance of DICE (Don't Ignore Chance Effects) in research www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/the... #FridayThe13th #RCT #JamesLindLibrary @jameslindlibrary.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Our RANDOM WALK through randomised trials published this week, stops at a randomised trial done at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston USA of a strategy to reduce the adverse cardiovascular effects of circadian misalignment, such as that arising from night work or jet lag.
April 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Our RANDOM WALK through randomised trials published this week, takes a break at a randomised trial of the peer review process, which was done by an international team of researchers to evaluate reviews given to submitted paper 1/4 @plosone.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
+ Our RANDOM WALK through randomised trials published this week, stops, on #WorldSleepDay at a randomised trial from South Korea of lime peel supplement for sleep, based on the possibility that flavonoids-rich citrus peels might have sedative-hypnotic effects
worldsleepday.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM