Have we been going about this all wrong? Reflections on small effect sizes

Please join us …

When: Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 12–1 p.m.

Where: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96194570476, Meeting ID: 961 9457 0476. Meeting password: 341708

Who: Kaveh G. Shojania, M.D.; Professor and Vice-Chair (Quality & Innovation), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Staff Physician, General Internal Medicine; Quality Lead, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Emeritus Editor, BMJ Quality & Safety.

Topic: Have we been going about this all wrong? Reflections on small effect sizes

Learning objectives

1. Understand the small effects delivered by most efforts to improve healthcare quality.
2. Appreciate that the same applies to most biomedical research – most therapies don’t pan out and those that do deliver small gains.
3. Recognize the importance of fundamentally changing what research we pursue in order to avoid pissing in the wind as the world burns around us.

Kaveh Shojania