Minervation has teamed up with the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme to produce Management of Acute Dental Problems.
This evidence-based decision aid is for non-dental health professionals who are advising patients with oral health problems.
By selecting the patient’s symptoms, the system directs users towards the recommended care.
It also provides detailed background information about conditions that are the most likely causes of symptoms, along with further recommendations for management.
Building a highly accessible patient-friendly website in less than 2 months is no mean feat, but that’s exactly what we did recently for the College of Optometrists. Their brief dictated that we redesign and rebuild their public-facing website: ‘Look After Your Eyes’ to very tight deadlines.
Twenty years ago when we started working in healthcare we were viewed by many as heretics and deviants (some may say that few things change). It has taken many years to place evidence-based healthcare at the centre of clinical practice and health policy making and there’s still a huge amount of work to do, but the approach that we have championed for years is now very much the ‘accepted way’. Health professionals have far greater awareness of evidence than a few years ago, critical appraisal skills are core to many training programmes and the quality of evidence is improving all the time.
Watching Olympic gymnastics should come with a health and safety warning! All I was trying to do was emulate a couple of pommel horse moves and before you know it…
We’re launching a new website today called Informed Choice about Cancer Screening.
The Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry website is a great starting point for anyone with an interest in learning more about evidence-based dentistry. It features a simple set of pages that will help professionals practice dentistry in a more evidence-based way, as well as more detailed pages aimed as researchers and teachers.
We have been working with the team at the University of Oxford Careers Service for a few years now; helping them ensure that their website meets the needs of the students, alumni and recruiters who use it.