By Leo Hi folks! Have you ever felt that you are working more (much more) that you are suppose to? I hope my boss won’t read this post (it is not her fault anyway), but the reality is that I have been feeling overwhelmed by the amount of work over the last 18 months and [...]

By Leo and Luciola Hi ICECReamers! Gosh we were missing this! Happy new year to everyone! I hope you all had a great time! Leo is a sports enthusiast (this does not actually mean that he is a good athlete anyway) and in 6 months time we will have the 2012 London Olympic Games, which [...]

From Leo Last week I have written about trial quality over time, I have tried to convince the ICECReamers that one of the biggest causes of publication of low quality trials is bad editorial policies or bad editorial management (which involves editors and reviewers opinions/decisions). At the moment, we have quite strong evidence that there [...]

By Leo    Every time that I am teaching evidence-based practice to my students on how to conduct randomised controlled trials, I heard questions like: Why trial quality is not getting better over time? Don’t get me (or my students) wrong here: trial quality IS improving over time, but in a very (veeeeeeeery) slow pace. [...]

…from Leo & Luciola Once upon a time, probably during the second semester of 2005, I faced an interesting questionnaire aiming to measure depression, anxiety and stress named the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS). I was supposed to use this instrument in the patients that I would recruit later for a randomised trial on [...]