Welcome to Bandolier
Bandolier is a website about the use of evidence in health, healthcare, and medicine. It sounds easy, but it isn't. Wherever you look people are making decisions on the basis of belief (never a good idea), or on evidence that is flawed. What is on this site may help understand how easy it is to be misled.
This month is the new look Bandolier front page, with a host of new material written especially for the web. Click on the links to the right to see how all the material in this site is organised.
The photograph this month is the Temple of the Olympian Zeus in Athens.
Newly written for Bandolier for September 07
Book review: Medical writing. A prescription for clarity
Risk
Risk: aspirin or car? Comparing drugs risk with life risk
Attitudes to risk in OA
Citizens have inadequate medical knowledge
Arthritis
Prognostic factors for progression of OA knee
Intra-articular hyaluronic acid for knee osteoarthritis: update
Complementary
Update on honey therapy: 2007
Labour
Intrathecal opioids and foetal bradycardia in labour
Bandolier Books and Journal
Visit the section on Bandolier Books, which will keep you informed about other products from the Bandolier stable. Most recent is "Bandolier's little book of understanding the medical evidence" available from Oxford University Press.
All previous issues of the Bandolier Journal are available online for Bandolier and ImpAct; they are also available as PDFs.