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This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — This TI Best Evidence Webinar was an encore presentation, originally delivered as part of the TI Best Evidence for Clinicians 2025...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — This TI Best Evidence Webinar was an encore presentation, originally delivered as part of the TI Best Evidence for Clinicians 2025...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — When challenged by complex cases involving people taking too many medications, we may ask: Can I stop any of these?...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — TI Best Evidence webinar was an encore presentation, originally delivered as part of the TI Best Evidence for Clinicians 2025 Annual...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Best Evidence Webinar participants had the opportunity to discuss the recently published Therapeutics Letter 161 on this...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. You can view or download the presenter’s slide deck by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button. ===== This TI Best Evidence webinar...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — When challenged by complex cases involving people taking too many medications, we may ask: Can I stop any of these?...
This webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. Click on the DOWNLOAD button to view or download a copy of the slide deck, which includes answers to questions posed by...
Here is a list of all of the research methods webinars we’ve hosted as part of the TI Methods Speaker Series. Click on a presentation title to view the details and the associated webinar recording....
The live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the recording. — This TI Best Evidence webinar focussed on how we can think more critically about choosing antibiotic treatment durations. You can view...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Best Evidence webinar, Dr. Aaron Tejani from the UBC Therapeutics Initiative provided best-practice insights on how to...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. In this TI Best Evidence webinar, Dr. Davie Wong addressed a historical practice that is often unwarranted, by reviewing evidence from...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Best Evidence webinar, Dr. Anshula Ambasta presented practical approaches to thyroid testing for health professionals. Participants learned...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. To view or download the slide deck for this presentation in PDF format click on the DOWNLOAD button. Read issue 152...
This webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Best Evidence webinar, Dr. Wade Thompson reviewed evidence and key messages from the recent Therapeutics Letter and Portrait...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Methods Speaker Series webinar Dr. Carole Lunny described a new risk of bias tool for network meta-analysis,...
This live event has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Best Evidence webinar, Hafeez Dossa described his experience with a pharmacist-led intervention in a long-term care setting,...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. To view the slide deck click on the ‘Download‘ button. — In this TI Methods Speaker Series webinar, Dr. Mohsen Alayche,...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Methods Speaker Series webinar, Dr. Caspar J. Van Lissa, Associate Professor at Tilburg University (Netherlands), discussed pioneering...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Methods Speaker Series webinar, Jennifer Petkovic discussed how equity can be considered in evidence synthesis and how...
This webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — When challenged by complex cases involving people taking too many medications, we may ask: Can I stop any of these? Which...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Methods Speaker Series webinar, Larissa Shamseer, a CIHR-funded postdoctoral methods researcher working with the Knowledge Translation Program...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Best Evidence webinar, Dr. Mark Horowitz presented the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines approach to deprescribing antidepressants and shared...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this TI Methods Speaker Series webinar, Matthew B. Jané, graduate student in quantitative psychology at the University of Connecticut,...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. —– In this webinar, Prof. Stephen Senn gave an overview of the history of research synthesis from its roots in the...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — When challenged by complex cases involving people taking too many medications, we may ask: Can I stop any of these?...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — In this webinar, Dr. Javier Bracchiglione explored general overview concepts, focusing on overlap of primary studies, current methods for addressing...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — Wade is a pharmacist and researcher working to ensure older persons are taking medications that are necessary, effective, safe, and...
We invite you to watch the presentation: Approach to rational laboratory test utilization given at the October 2023 TI Annual Course by Dr. Anshula Ambasta. The aims of this practical and evidence-informed presentation are to: Understand...
We invite you to watch the presentation: Is ANY sleep medication EVER a good idea? given at the October 2023 TI Annual Course by Dr. Rita McCracken and Dr. Wade Thompson. The aims of this practical...
We invite you to watch the presentation: Bupropion: a discussion of its efficacy and safety, given at the October 2023 TI Annual Course by Dr. Cait O’Sullivan and Dr. Vincent Wong. The aims of this...
We invite you to watch the presentation: Case-based polypharmacy, given at the October 2023 TI Annual Course by Dr. Tom Perry. The aims of this practical and evidence-informed presentation are to: Develop/enhance a practical approach to...
We invite you to watch the presentation: Using simple pharmacokinetics to optimize prescribing given at the October 2023 TI Annual Course by Dr. Tom Perry. Want to know how to predict when a drug might start...
Want to become an evidence detective? Want to avoid some common pitfalls when reading clinical drug trials? You have come to the right place. Becoming An Evidence Detective (Critical Appraisal Pearls for Clinicians) will go...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. —– Social networks present an opportunity for influence and advocacy, unlike anything previous generations of academics have experienced. All you need...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video. — In this webinar, Dr. David Menkes explored the interaction between SSRI antidepressants and substance misuse. Using a series of 100 cases,...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — When challenged by complex cases involving people taking too many medications, we may ask: Can I stop any of these?...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — The majority of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) meta-analyses evaluate the accuracy of a single index test at a time; however,...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — Dr. Juan Erviti is a qualified hospital pharmacist in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. His research activity is focused on pharmacoepidemiology and...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — When challenged by complex cases involving people taking too many medications, we may ask: Can I stop any of these?...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — There are many good reasons for judicious prescribing: better patient care, lower costs for patients and healthcare systems and reduced...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. Use the DOWNLOAD button to view or download the slide deck. — Comprehensive diagnostic imaging referral guidelines are an important tool for facilitating...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — It is increasingly expected that decisions about health care and research are made based on the best available evidence. Evidence...
Most Therapeutics Letters analyze evidence to draw conclusions about average drug effects in defined groups of people. This Letter takes a clinical pharmacological approach to review how individuals may be harmed by dopamine (DA) receptor...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. — Statistical software can enable researchers to conduct analyses by rote processes while evading methodological understanding. In meta-analysis, programs such as...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. Fixing one problem with another: Problematic prescribing cascades Dr. Aaron M Tejani is a researcher/educator with the Therapeutics Initiative (co-chair of the...
This live webinar has already taken place. Scroll down to view the video recording. ============================= While methods to systematically identify and synthesize evidence from the literature in an transparent and systematic fashion have tremendous potential...
‘Medicine is Awesome’: A critical look at the factors that shape the definition of, and research on, depression and its treatment Dr. Allen Shaughnessy received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Medical University of...
In Therapeutics Letter 136, just published last week, we ask a question some might find provocative: “How do YOU respond to Conflicts of Interest?” In professional education sessions, we might all be accustomed to the standard...
Being able to communicate effectively is essential for success in modern science, and the burden is on the individual to present information in a way that is clear, accurate, compelling and understandable. This applies equally...
Dr Rita McCracken is a full-service family doctor and researcher living as an uninvited visitor on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and the Skwxwú7mesh...
Systematic reviews of interventions usually include evidence about multiple outcomes. Because most reviews are designed to assess potential benefits, they sometimes neglect best practices for assessing and reporting potential harms (“adverse events”). This talk described...
Dr. Rupi Brar is an addiction and family medicine physician with the Portland Hotel Community Services Society in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. She also works clinically at St. Paul’s Addiction Medicine Consult Service and is...
Evidence synthesis is a key method for ensuring clinical practice is up-to-date, efficient, and effective; but conventionally done systematic reviews are laborious, time-consuming, and quickly become out of date. Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) systems...
Dr. Dee Mangin is the David Braley Chair in Family Medicine at McMaster University, the Associate Chair (Research), and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster, and the Director of MUSIC, the McMaster University...
In this presentation, Tom Stanley shows how excess statistical significance (ESS) can improve the credibility of research synthesis. This generalizes on the notion of an excess of statistical significance by Ioannidis & Trikalinos’ (2007) that...