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TRIP Database

2 - Do you know
TRIP Database Trip is a tool for you to find and use high-quality clinical research evidence. Any search performed in TRIP fetches results from a number of resources like the Cochrane Library, Evidence Summaries, individual journals and more. Once the results are displayed, one can filter them by TRIP's filters - either secondary research (systematic reviews, guidelines etc) or primary research - (Journal articles, Trials etc) or basic information from textbooks. Results can be further refined in a number of ways, saved, and exported.Apart from such evidence based resources, TRIP fetches results from other resource categories - Images, Videos, Education, Patient…
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Short EpiData course: do participants use the data entry tool two years post-training?

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Kumar AM, Chinnakali P, Shewade H, Gupta V, Nagpal P, Harries AD.Short EpiData course: do participants use the data entry tool two years post-training?Public Health Action. 2015 Dec 21;5(4):261-5. PMID: 26767181 Dr Ajay Kumar, the first author of this article, shared this study with us, since lots of it was relevant to the scenarios we faced with training. The study describes how the authors conducted workshops on the use of the tool EpiData for data entry of research data, and then studied the impact two years later. They discuss how accuracy in data entry is vital for research, but making students  aware…
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MECOR 2016 – A Research Methodology Workshop with a difference!

MECOR 2016 – A Research Methodology Workshop with a difference!

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WHAT:  MECOR 2016- Methods in Epidemiology, Clinical & Operational Research - an event that takes place in India (MECOR India) every alternate year. The workshop is organized by a group of Physicians from the American Thoracic Society, USA, in collaboration with the Public Health Institute (USA), and in India, with the Indian Chest Society and the National Center for Disease Control. MECOR offers the program at three levels. Participants have to qualify for each level before going to the next one. The faculty includes three Indians - who have been participants in earlier MECOR programs. I have been a special lecturer in four out of…
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