Bandolier Extra

Bandolier Extra contains Internet essays on specific topics,that can be read on-screen in HTML or are available as printable PDFs. Easier formats for longer articles should help lay readers and professionals with their personal development plans. We also have a 'What-is' set of short and clear explanations on several important topics commissioned by AVENTIS and produced by Hayward Medical plc. AVENTIS kindly made them available in pdf format. Merck, Sharpe and Dohme have sponsored the Bandolier Professional and Forum series. If you are struggling with PDF files look here, and if you need Acrobat reader, click on the icon.

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Bandolier Forum

On science and management

On care pathways

Management issues in healthcare

Waste in healthcare

Delivering better healthcare 1: What goes wrong when implementing EB practice

Delivering better healthcare 2: Seeing the woods for the trees

Delivering better healthcare 3: Learning to implement change in clinical practice

The King's Fund PACE programme: a brief history and update

Healthy living topics

Starting to exercise

Changing behaviour - weight control

A healthy pregnancy

Healthy postnatal care

Bandolier's tips for healthy living

Specific topics

Oral modified release morphine for the management of severe pain: A UK perspective

Topical analgesics

Needlestick injuries

MMR vaccination and autism

Acute pain

Primer on calculating NNTs

NNT calculation sheet

Trust

Cannabis for multiple sclerosis and spasm (systematic review)

Lorenzo's oil (systematic review)

Bandolier bias guide

Diagnostic test essay

Do NSAIDs inhibit bone healing?

Effectiveness of acupuncture for stroke rehabilitation

Migraine: special issue Bandolier Extra

Evidence, trials, and migraine

Adverse drug events in hospital patients (systematic review)

with excluded

and included studies

Intravenous immunoglobulin for MS

Cannabis and flying

Latex allergy review

Minor surgery in primary care - warts and all

Systematic review of PPI and H2A in GORD

Helicobacter pylori

Resistance to activated protein C due to Factor V R506Q (Factor V Leiden)

Policosanol review

What is series

Clinical governance?

Confidence intervals?

Cost-effectiveness

Cox Model

Critical appraisal?

Evidence-based Medicine

Good clinical guideline?

Health Utilities

Integrated care pathway?

Meta-analysis

NICE

Systematic Reviews

Numbers-needed-to-treat

Implementing Numbers-needed-to-treat

Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA)

Implementing PBMA

Quality of life

Quality adjusted life years

Implementing QALYs

Implementing NICE guidance

What are hazard ratios?

What are HTA processes in the UK?

What is Bayesian statistics?

What is cost-minimisation analysis?

What is cost-utility analysis?

What is health economics?

What is health technology assessment?

What is indirect comparison?

What is payment by results?

What is sensitivity analysis?

What is world class commissioning?