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How to read a health study
Cochrane's free course for anyone who wants to judge health research on their own.
Cochrane8 min readSelected and edited by Dean ShabanAdded
Evidence Essentials is Cochrane's free introductory course on how health research is designed and reported.
It covers ideas like bias and effect size, and it explains why a systematic review carries more weight than a single trial.
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