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Trials Change Lives
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Posting about health and social care research, randomised trials and systematic reviews. Based in Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
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#CochraneDaily On World Origami Day (worldorigamiday.org/origami-day), there's a randomised trial for that!

Search Cochrane CENTRAL to find several trials testing the potential benefits of #origami in the care of children.

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#WorldOrigamiDay #RandomisdTrials #RCT #EBHC
Origami Day - Celebrating Paper Folding Across the World
Origami Day on November 11 is a celebration of the common and yet ancient and complex art of Japanese paper folding.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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#WordsOfToday "There should always be a good time to stand, stretch and smell the coffee." Puti Edami, 2007
#Coffee #StandUp #Stretch
#Today #QuotesDaily
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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#WordsOtToday "If nothing else, be kind to others." Aga Lelei, 2022
#QuotesToLiveBy #GreatestQuotes
#BeKind #BeKindAlways #Kind
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#CochraneDaily In October 2025, the Cochrane Library published 15 new reviews, 4 updated reviews where the conclusions had changed, 7 other updated reviews and one review that was given a new citation because of changes to correct errors
@cochrane.org #EvidenceSynthesis #CochaneLibrary
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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#WordsOfToday “Always have some spare AA and AAA batteries in the kitchen" Eddy Thomson, 2020
#QuotesToLiveBy #QuotesDaily
#BePrepared #Batteries
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 Cochrane Reviews 3: GARLIC FOR THE COMMON COLD. @cochrane.org review from 2014 concluded "There is insufficient clinical trial evidence on the effects of garlic in preventing or treating the common cold." www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
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November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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#WordsOfToday "The last funeral I want to go to is my own, and the last one I will go to is my own." Pheta com Plee, 2007
#GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily #Mortality
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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#CochraneDaily On this #sandwich day (www.daysoftheyear.com/days/sandwic...), celebrate the mega-trial called SANDWICH which recruited ~9000 children on mechanical ventilation in intensive care units. It's in Cochrane CENTRAL, with the full report free at www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/TCFX3817
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November 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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#WordsOfToday "Maths of cooking: flour + water + heat = bread." Ric Etta, 1981
#Cooking #Cookery #Bread
#GreatestQuotes #QuoteOfTheDay
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#CochraneDaily Happy Halloween! A randomised trial in @cochrane.org CENTRAL with >1200 participants found that showing Trick or Treat children a picture of Michelle #Obama made them more likely to take fruit instead of candy www.cochranelibrary.com/central/doi/...
#Halloween #RandomisedTrial #RCT
The effect of images of Michelle Obama's face on trick-or-treaters' dietary choices: a randomized control trial | Cochrane Library
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October 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 #Cochrane Reviews 2: REPLACING SALT WITH LOW-SODIUM SALT SUBSTITUTES (LSSS). Compared to regular #salt, LSSS probably reduce blood pressure, non‐fatal and fatal #cardiovascular events slightly in adults www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
Replacing salt with low‐sodium salt substitutes (LSSS) for cardiovascular health in adults, children and pregnant women - Brand, A - 2022 | Cochrane Library
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October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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#WordsOfToday "Do you think people grow more from criticism of what someone regards as their failings or from praise for their successes?" Rath Moladh, 2015
#QuotesDaily #BeKind #BeKindAlways
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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#CochraneDaily On World Stroke Day (www.world-stroke.org/world-stroke...), recent update of @cochrane.org review found moderate‐certainty evidence that remote ischaemic conditioning probably reduces recurrence of ischaemic #stroke slightly
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
#WorldStrokeDay
World Stroke Campaign
We work to improve public awareness and understanding of stroke with a focus on stroke prevention, symptom awareness and the needs of stroke survivors.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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#WordsOfToday “We should show our appreciation by thanking as many people as we can, every day" Count Mein, 2023
#QuotesToLiveBy #ThankYou #JustSayThanks #Appreciation #Countmein
October 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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#CochraneDaily Old and new words in the Cochrane Library: an all text search for the word "ancient" retrieves 80 Cochrane reviews, while "modern" retrieves 842
@cochrane.org #Words #Ancient #Modern #EvidenceSynthesis
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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#WordsOfToday “I was lying in bed, with a fear of dread about the day ahead, so I imagined the smell of fresh bread and got up instead" Chris Ant 2004
#Bread #QuoteForToday
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#CochraneDaily Just published! Study of 202 Cochrane and 251 non-Cochrane reviews in neonatal medicine published in 2015-23 found that the Cochrane reviews were of significantly better methodological quality www.jpeds.com/article/S002...
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Quality assessment of Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews in neonatal medicine: A meta-analysis
To compare the methodological and reporting performance of Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews (CR and NCR) of clinical trials evaluating neonatal interventions.
www.jpeds.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Remind yourself of the value of the randomised trial on #WorldPolioDay through a history of the Salk #polio vaccine trial, which showed the vaccine's benefits 50 years ago
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Read more by Harry Marks in my library www.jameslindlibrary.org
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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#WordsOfToday “Try to read at least one book a month that introduces you to a new topic" Snelav Roht, 2023
#ReadABook #Learning #Education
#QuotesToLiveBy #GreatestQuotes
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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#CochraneDaily On World Polio Day www.who.int/europe/campa..., read the @cochrane.org review with findings that could help decision‐makers optimise #polio #vaccination policies, reducing #inequity between countries
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#WorldPolioDay
World Polio Day
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October 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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#CochraneDaily Around your health in 100 @cochrane.org reviews #1. Freshly updated review with 9 included #RandomisedTrials concludes that evidence is very uncertain about effects of additional #work‐breaks on intensity of back and neck #pain or #productivity
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
Work‐break interventions for preventing musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders in healthy workers - Luger, T - 2025 | Cochrane Library
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October 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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#WordsOfToday "Avoid the panic of choosing presents close to the day by making a gift chest into which you put things throughout the year" Thor Valens, 2022
#Gifts #Christmas #ChristmasIsComing
#QuotesDaily
October 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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#WordsOfToday “At the end of each day, relax and do nothing except wait for inspiration." Jean Ferrat, 2022
#Inspiration #GreatestQuotes #QuotesDaily #QuoteForToday
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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#CochraneDaily Just published! Systematic survey of simulation studies of randomised trials to identify optimal strategies for dealing with missing binary outcome data
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#JEBM #RandomisedTrials #RCT #MissingData #RandomisedControlledTrials
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October 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#CochraneDaily Yesterday was World #Osteoporosis Day www.worldosteoporosisday.org. Among the many @cochrane.org reviews is one of the earliest, showing potential for exercise to be a safe and effective way to avert bone loss in postmenopausal women
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
World Osteoporosis Day October20
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October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM