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The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018
BACKGROUND: The James Lind Initiative (JLI) was a work programme inaugurated by Iain Chalmers and Patricia Atkinson to press for better research for better health care. It ran between 2003 and 2018, when Iain Chalmers retired. During the 15 years of its existence, the JLI developed three strands of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30766728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40900-019-0138-2 |
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author | Chalmers, Iain Atkinson, Patricia Badenoch, Douglas Glasziou, Paul Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid Oxman, Andy Clarke, Mike |
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description | BACKGROUND: The James Lind Initiative (JLI) was a work programme inaugurated by Iain Chalmers and Patricia Atkinson to press for better research for better health care. It ran between 2003 and 2018, when Iain Chalmers retired. During the 15 years of its existence, the JLI developed three strands of work in collaboration with the authors of this paper, and with others. WORK THEMES: The first work strand involved developing a process for use by patients, carers and clinicians to identify shared priorities for research – the James Lind Alliance. The second strand was a series of articles, meetings, prizes and other developments to raise awareness of the massive amounts of avoidable waste in research, and of ways of reducing it. The third strand involved using a variety of approaches to promote better public and professional understanding of the importance of research in clinical practice and public health. JLI work on the first two themes has been addressed in previously published reports. This paper summarises JLI involvement during the 15 years of its existence in giving talks, convening workshops, writing books, and creating websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims. CONCLUSION: During its 15-year life, the James Lind Initiative worked collaboratively with others to create free teaching and learning resources to help children and adults learn how to recognise untrustworthy claims about the effects of treatments. These resources have been translated in more than twenty languages, but much more could be done to support their uptake and wider use. |
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spelling | pubmed-63606922019-02-14 The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 Chalmers, Iain Atkinson, Patricia Badenoch, Douglas Glasziou, Paul Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid Oxman, Andy Clarke, Mike Res Involv Engagem Commentary BACKGROUND: The James Lind Initiative (JLI) was a work programme inaugurated by Iain Chalmers and Patricia Atkinson to press for better research for better health care. It ran between 2003 and 2018, when Iain Chalmers retired. During the 15 years of its existence, the JLI developed three strands of work in collaboration with the authors of this paper, and with others. WORK THEMES: The first work strand involved developing a process for use by patients, carers and clinicians to identify shared priorities for research – the James Lind Alliance. The second strand was a series of articles, meetings, prizes and other developments to raise awareness of the massive amounts of avoidable waste in research, and of ways of reducing it. The third strand involved using a variety of approaches to promote better public and professional understanding of the importance of research in clinical practice and public health. JLI work on the first two themes has been addressed in previously published reports. This paper summarises JLI involvement during the 15 years of its existence in giving talks, convening workshops, writing books, and creating websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims. CONCLUSION: During its 15-year life, the James Lind Initiative worked collaboratively with others to create free teaching and learning resources to help children and adults learn how to recognise untrustworthy claims about the effects of treatments. These resources have been translated in more than twenty languages, but much more could be done to support their uptake and wider use. BioMed Central 2019-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6360692/ /pubmed/30766728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40900-019-0138-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Chalmers, Iain Atkinson, Patricia Badenoch, Douglas Glasziou, Paul Austvoll-Dahlgren, Astrid Oxman, Andy Clarke, Mike The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 |
title | The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 |
title_full | The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 |
title_fullStr | The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 |
title_full_unstemmed | The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 |
title_short | The James Lind Initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 |
title_sort | james lind initiative: books, websites and databases to promote critical thinking about treatment claims, 2003 to 2018 |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30766728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40900-019-0138-2 |
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