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Workshops Key concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices 
Key concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices
 | Andy Oxman Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway |
 | Iain Chalmers The James Lind Alliance, UK |
Background
Claims about the effects of “treatments” (actions intended to maintain or improve health) are in the mass media, advertisements and personal communication daily. The Informed Health Choices (IHC) project has developed educational resources for schoolchildren and their parents with the objective of improving their ability to assess claims about treatment effects. As our starting point, we developed a framework for teachers, journalists and other intermediaries for identifying and developing resources to help people to understand and apply Key Concepts that underlie critical thinking about health claims and choices.
Aims
The objectives of this workshop are to discuss: Are the IHC Key Concepts sensible and useful? To what extent are they applicable to other types of interventions? How do the Key Concepts fit with other domains of critical appraisal and critical thinking; and how can we promote learning of the concepts?
Program
The workshop will be a structured discussion of those questions. The IHC Key Concepts are reviewed annually to allow for revisions of existing concepts or identification and inclusion of additional concepts. This discussion will feed into this.
Last update 24/09/2019
