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From Professor David Sackett to today – Hot stuff

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Published: December 2, 2025 10:11

The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) has decamped to somewhere near Warwick for two days to update the Catalogue of Bias.

Compliance, concordance, adherence–a history of related terms

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Published: July 17, 2023 16:56

In the 1979 paper in which he outlined a number of biases that can affect research studies, David Sackett included

A taxonomy of biases: progress report

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Published: February 11, 2020 15:13

The Taxonomy team (Jeffrey Aronson, Douglas Badenoch, Jon Brassey, Iain Chalmers, Claire Friedemann Smith, and David Nunan) update us on

Big is not always beautiful: the Apple Heart Study

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Published: November 14, 2019 11:53

Ami Banerjee blogs about the Apple Heart Study and what the results mean What a gift. During our fourth away

Separating the wheat from the bias

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Published: October 9, 2019 08:22

Ami Banerjee blogs on how the Catalogue of Bias can help us sift out the good information when reading about

A taxonomy of biases in healthcare research: first thoughts

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Published: April 1, 2019 15:53

Jeffrey K Aronson, Douglas Badenoch, Jon Brassey, Iain Chalmers, Claire Friedemann Smith, Emily McFadden and David Nunan blog about creating

Finding the ‘little key’ and the origins of the ‘Catalog’

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Published: March 13, 2019 14:34

In the ‘About’ page of our Catalogue we state the following: Sackett recognised the importance of bias in research. His

Association or causation? How do we ever know?

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Published: March 5, 2019 10:27

Hopin Lee, Jeffrey K Aronson and David Nunan blog about how to tell when an association does and does not

Big Data: Big bias?

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Published: March 1, 2019 13:28

Ami Banerjee blogs about the Catalogue of Bias teams work to document the potential sources of bias in Big Data

A Word About Evidence: 6. Bias — a proposed definition

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Published: June 15, 2018 08:31

Following the recent launch of the Catalogue of Bias on the website of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Jeff Aronson