This week we had our annual winter workshop. Like the view for the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (or for us from the iconic Rundetaarn in Copenhagen), this workshop allows us to withdraw for a bit from everyday work to contemplate and to connect. 1/3

Webinar - read more and sign up: www.cochrane.org/events/how-t... On 17 February 2026, Andreas Lundh and Asbjørn Hrobjartsson will host a Cochrane Learning Live webinar about the TACIT tool.

Have increased capacity for this December INSPECT-SR online training workshop following a successful 1st event today. Book here: www.trybooking.com/uk/FKHV

Free online workshop for assessing trustworthiness of RCTs

What: Webinar on trial sequential analysis (TSA) in meta-analyses When: 28 Oct 2025 13:00 to 13:45 (CEST) Where: syddanskuni.zoom.us/j/61110310530 Christian Gunge Riberholt, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, will talk about TSA and the potential errors of using it. #MetaAnalysis

Tool for Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Trials (TACIT), included in systematic reviews, is now available! Developed by experts led by Lundh & Hróbjartsson at Cochrane Denmark. Try the unpublished tool: osf.io/5fzv3/. Learn more at www.tacit.one and share feedback with @alundh.bsky.social!

Sign up for one of our free 2-hour review workshops to help you get started with your review: - 25 September 2025 at 10 am - 12 pm at SDU Odense - 30 October 2025 at 10 am - 12 pm at SDU Odense - 27 November 2025 at 10 am - 12 pm at SDU Odense Read more and sign up here: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Earlier this month, Cecilie, @helenavbk.bsky.social, Mette, and @alundh.bsky.social presented their research at the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication in Chicago! #PRC10 Read more about our team and the research we do on our website: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Science is not always as good as it appears on print in a research paper. Ready to be scared by finding nasty truths. Try out INSPECT-SR for checking the trustworthiness of trial results when you do systematic reviews.

Development of a Tool for Addressing #COIs in Trials (TACIT) for Use in Systematic Reviews from @alundh.bsky.social @isabelleboutron.bsky.social @cochranedkcebmo.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social is a PRC poster presentation Register to stop by, ask the authors questions! peerreviewcongress.org

Another round of workshops at SDU Odense to help you get started on your systematic review, scoping review, qualitative review, and other types of evidence synthesis: - 21 Aug 10am-12pm - 25 Sept 10am-12pm - 30 Oct 10am-12pm - 27 Nov 10am-12pm Read more and sign up: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

📢 two new PhD Students at @cochranedkcebmo.bsky.social! We are pleased to announce that Josefina Salazar and Mette Bangshof Engmose have started their PhD journeys this month. Josefina’s research focus on bias in randomised clinical trials, and Mette’s on reporting practices in systematic reviews!

Next week on 24 June from 12 to 13 CEST, Stine Urhøj, assistant prof @ucph.bsky.social, will talk about live birth bias and other methodological challenges in perinatal epidemiology. Zoom: syddanskuni.zoom.us/j/63246925313 More about the Danish EBM Network: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Webinar on target trials on 18 June at 3pm CEST, hosted by Center for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, with talks by Helene Speyer and Alejandro Szmulewicz. Read more and sign up: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Another successful centre summer workshop with both enlightening professional talks and encouraging social sessions. 1/2

We have also published a new Explanation and Elaboration paper in @BMJ.com providing updated guidance and examples for reporting protocols of randomised trials. —> www.bmj.com/content/389/...

A Consensus Statement in Nature Medicine from CONSORT 2025 provides updated guidance to authors, reviewers and editors, when writing and evaluating manuscripts of randomized trials to ensure that trial reports are clear and transparent. go.nature.com/3Si0p1f #medsky 🧪

CONSORT 2025 - substantially updated guideline for reporting randomized trials, taking new methodologies into account Well-designed & properly executed randomized trials are considered the most reliable evidence on the benefits of healthcare interventions #MedSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CONSORT 2025 statement: updated guideline for reporting randomised trials 🔗 tinyurl.com/2s3hv3yx

Following on from the recent CONSORT 2025 publication, SPIRIT 2025 has now landed 🥳 It's aligned with CONSORT for streamlined reporting; open science is front & center; and PPI makes a welcome appearance. Plus much more! 🎂 Happy trial protocol reporting, y'all🎂

NEW PAPER: Updated SPIRIT-2025 for reporting protocols of randomised trials is now available in the @BMJ.com, @JAMA.com, @thelancet.bsky.social, @PLoS.org, and @natmedicine.bsky.social. —> www.bmj.com/content/389/... #openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky

#CochraneDaily Just Published! Analysis of 66 randomised trials with blinded & non-blinded assessors of subjective outcomes provides empirical evidence of exaggerated effect estimates with non-blinded assessors www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... @jbracchiglione.bsky.social @cochranedkcebmo.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social —> www.bmj.com/content/389/... #openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky

The Danish EBM Network held a successful symposium yesterday, featuring three outstanding presentations on artificial intelligence in evidence synthesis by Anna Noel-Storr (Cochrane), @ellaflem.bsky.social (Cochrane) and Kristian Thorlund (McMaster University). #EvidenceSynthesis #AI

sdu-dk.libcal.com/event/4296776 Still free seats for our next method workshop in Odense on 27 March. Get help for your search strategy and other aspects of your systematic review, scoping review or other type of reviews. #SystematicReviews #EvidenceSynthesis

Webinar on Qualitative Evidence Synthesis, 4 March at 12 noon (CET) via Zoom With presentation by Merete Bjerrum, director at the JBI Danish Centre of Systematic Reviews and professor at Aalborg University www.sdu.dk/en/forskning... #EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReviews

This year's Danish EBM Symposium in Copenhagen is about AI in systematic reviews. Sign-up is open until 1 March. event.sdu.dk/danishebmnet... #EvidenceBasedMedicine #EBM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

The Danish EBM Network Symposium 2025 🗓️🌍 9 April in Copenhagen Free of charge (except dinner) Speakers: Anna-Noel Storr, @ellaflem.bsky.social, Kristian Thorlund (McMaster University) Organizers: Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Ole Jakob Storebø and Ann Merete Møller event.sdu.dk/danishebmnet...

Learn more about conducting scoping reviews in our next workshop on 27 February 2025 at 10 am-12 pm in Odense, DK! www.sdu.dk/en/forskning... #SystematicReviews #ScopingReviews #EvidenceSynthesis

Interested in #researchintegrity? #peerreview? 🚨Read our published scoping review! doi.org/10.1136/bmje... We have mapped an entire field of research on peer reviewers' conflicts of interest in biomedical research! Find the Open Access version here: portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publicati...

📢 This semester's schedule is up for our monthly review workshops in Odense, DK (some are in-person, some hybrid) 💡 Get tips for your systematic review, scoping review or other review on how to work with your research question, literature search, data collection, meta-analysis, and more.

Great way to mingle (and jingle). Talks by Minna Johansson on sustainable healthcare, @karstenjuhl.bsky.social on screening, Ezio di Nucci on sexual health and Jeppe Schroll on guideline work. Then an EBM card game and the centre singing together in unison, a cheerful Christmas Carol chorus 🌟

Webinar on adaptive platform trials and Trials Within Cohorts (TwiCs) with Dr. Alain Amstutz, hosted by Center for Evidence-Based Psychiatry 🗓️ 13 December at 9:00 to 10:30 (CET) Read more and sign up: www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Research dissemination in all shapes and sizes Tonight, Christoffer Bruun Korfitsen will participate in Science Slam in Planetarium, Copenhagen, and talk about conflicts of interest in biomedical research (in Danish). www.planetarium.dk/saerarrangem...