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Clinical recommendations map allows evidence-based contextualization for decisions in health using L·OVE Platform

BlogPor Epistemonikos 16/04/2021

During the COVID19 pandemic, health professionals, authorities and researchers have faced an important challenge: to find reliable sources of evidence-based, trustworthy recommendations that are relevant to their local contexts and lead to better-informed decisions. In order to address this challenge, an international group of researchers, which includes the Epistemonikos methodology team, led by our…

Living Evidence project will train European organisations to incorporate L·OVE Platform in evidence synthesis process

BlogPor Epistemonikos 07/04/2021

This week was the official launch of ‘Living Evidence’, an international project where Epistemonikos Foundation holds a key role. The project aims to train different European organisations that work on evidence synthesis to support health decision-making, in using tools and methodologies that will allow them to keep those reviews always updated. The initiative includes…

Study about duplication in evidence production is selected for the James Lind Library as a historical record

BlogPor Epistemonikos 22/03/2021

A few weeks ago, the prestigious JAMA Network Journal published an observational comparative study of systematic reviews that revealed the enormous overproduction of evidence on COVID-19, as well as the duplicity of subjects in research and the great problem that this has brought when trying to ensure exhaustivity in evidence synthesis, using traditional synthesis methods.…

L·OVE Platform identifies more primary studies than systematic reviews on COVID-19

BlogPor Epistemonikos 12/01/2021

A scientific article recently published on the JAMA Network Open scientific journal revealed that the L·OVE Platform was able to identify more primary studies on imaging findings in children with COVID-19 than any of the systematic reviews identified for the same subject. The study, elaborated by MD Giordano Pérez-Gaxiola and MD Iván Flores, was…

Scientific article explains how Epistemonikos became the largest database of systematic reviews in health

BlogPor Epistemonikos 08/01/2021

Since it was launched in 2009, Epistemonikos Database has become the world’s largest repository of systematic reviews relevant for health decision-making. The details behind this achievement were recently published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, in an article explaining how this technological tool works and has evolved to become this worldwide used resource. The article (that…

COVID-19 L·OVE: the largest open repository of evidence on this pandemic

Blog, COVID-19Por Epistemonikos 16/06/2020

Over 6000, selected from over 2 million, are the articles you can find in our COVID-19 L·OVE, the first of our ‘Premium’ evidence collections including all systematic reviews, as well as every primary study and all other kinds of articles related to this pandemic (included and not included in the reviews). Our COVID-19 L·OVE…

All health evidence, free and organized in one place: Epistemonikos launched the new L·OVE

BlogPor Epistemonikos 12/12/2019

With the company of great collaborators and friends, in addition to the more than 200 people who followed the live broadcast, on December 4th we celebrated the new version of L·OVE -Living OVerview of Evidence-, the most comprehensive, reliable and cost-efficient technological solution to obtain and organize relevant evidence in health. After several…

Eye injury, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders, wounds and burns: The health evidence of #18OCT

BlogPor Epistemonikos 10/12/2019

53 days have passed since our country has undergone what’s probably the biggest social outbreak in its recent history, in which millions of people have decided to turn to the streets and protest, not only in Chile but in many countries of Latin America and the world. During these times of protest, everyone has been…

Critical thinking: how we encourage informed decision making

BlogPor Javiera Sepúlveda 14/08/2019

Critical thinking: how we encourage informed decision making How we got to participate in That’s a Claim, project with a key role in helping people to make better health decisions. One of the reasons that Fake News and unsubstantiated claims (not only in health) spread easily is because, unfortunately, we are either not…

Epistemonikos participates in CICAD meeting of the OAS against drug and alcohol abuse

BlogPor Epistemonikos 09/05/2019

Epistemonikos participates in CICAD meeting of the OAS against drug and alcohol abuse Between May 8 and 10, the 65th Committee of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, CICAD (for its acronym in spanish), was held in Buenos Aires, where our President, Dr. Gabriel Rada, presented the results of the evaluation project…