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Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare

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The Institute delivers world-class research, engagement and training that serves as a national and international resource for scholars, clinicians, system leaders, patients and families in the implementation of evidence-based clinical care. The effective integration of research into practice contributes to the health and healthcare of Australians, influences health policy, improves global health outcomes, and enhances Bond University as a leading private and independent University.

 

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Our purpose

We aim to improve healthcare by better understanding the causes of, and solutions to, gaps between research evidence and its application in practice.

To achieve this, we:
  • Undertake research that more closely aligns evidence and patient care.
  • Support and extend collaborations between clinicians and health researchers to achieve higher value care.
  • Enable patients and families to make evidence-informed health decisions that are congruent with their values and preferences.
  • Lead and facilitate the teaching and learning of evidence-based practice.
  • Develop young researchers for research programs in sustainable healthcare.

Our research

Our research addresses four big, neglected problems in healthcare. Our focus in these areas assists health systems to provide care that is patient-centred and informed by evidence, and enables patients to make decisions that are congruent with their values, preferences and circumstances.

Antibiotic resistance

currently leads to 30,000 avoidable deaths per year in Europe and the USA, threatens elective surgery, and foreshadows a resurgence of the bacterial diseases of the 19th century.

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Overdiagnosis

has led to a massive increase in the apparent prevalence of many diseases through definition change and overdetection, and rising healthcare costs.

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Neglected non-pharmaceutical treatments

are often as effective and as safe, or safer than their pharmaceutical cousins but are poorly described and “marketed”, and therefore little used.

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Waste in medical research

is estimated to cost over $100 billion per year from avoidable design flaws, non-publication and poor reporting, resulting in >85% avoidable waste.

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Latest news

  • Paul Glasziou | The Surfing Professor

    Article by Medics Voices - 6 Feb 2024

    The World of Evidence, Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment, and Incidentalomas. Paul Glasziou FRACGP, PhD is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University. His applied clinical research is recognised throughout the world, answering questions that change the way we make decisions in medicine.

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  • Evidence of overdiagnosis of non-cancer conditions

    Overdiagnosis of conditions other than cancer is occurring, and researchers now have a way of estimating it.

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  • 2024 workshops

    The Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare is offering a series of ONLINE live interactive workshops on how to do systematic reviews with a focus on how to improve the speed and efficiency of the review process.

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  • Final Newsletter 2023

    Welcome to the Institute's final newsletter for 2023. Dive into a year of incredible achievements with us as we celebrate our impact, awards, and global recognition, upcoming events and an array of news and activities.

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  • Global recognition for Bond researchers

    Professor Paul Glasziou AO has been named among the top 1 percent of researchers worldwide in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list.

    A number of IEBH staff has also been named in Stanford University’s list of the top 2 percent of most-cited scientists.

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