What can shared decision-making look like from the patient’s perspective? A treatment that is the best medical option may not be the best for the person’s life. In this guest blog, Rosalind talks about the treatment choices she faced when her Graves Disease symptoms returned and how she worked out what is best for her.

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This blog is written by Sarah Chapman, Cochrane UK's Knowledge Broker.

When we think about the nutrients we need each day vitamins C, D and E, calcium and folate may be the first ones that spring to mind. What about iodine though?

Adopting probabilistic thinking and language that is powered by evidence and its validity is a hard transition from everyday life for anyone. There are many possible obstacles.The fundamentals – causality, randomness, probability – are not very intuitive or easy to understand or communicate clearly to anyone. Just tell me “yes”, “no” or “I don’t know”, ok?

Free peer review workshopThursday 17th September 2015, 2pm – 5pm, held at Glasgow Caledonian University.Peer Review: The nuts and bolts is a free half-day workshop for early career researchers and will explore how peer review works, how to get involved, the challenges to the system, and the role of peer review in helping the public to evaluate research claims. 

September is the S month. It brings stationery, as pleasing at 50, I find, as at 15. It also brings spiders, sticky-backed plastic (see this blog if you’re wondering), school and stress. Back to school. What a shame that these three little words create feelings of dread in many parents, children and teachers.

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There is only one week left to book onto the following YHEC training course at The University of York:Economic Evaluations and Economic Evidence in Healthcare, 17th September 2015  (book online)