Research
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Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis: Reading a Forest Plot and Choosing the Right Study Design
Dr. Bushra Fatima announces a shortcut: a meta-analysis, no patients, top of the pyramid, done in a month. Then Dr. Yaqoob shows…
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Case Reports and Case Series: When One Patient Is Worth Publishing
Dr. Hammad Ali finds a gallbladder on the wrong side during a routine laparoscopic cholecystectomy and wants to write it up the…
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Diagnostic Accuracy Studies: Sensitivity, Specificity, Predictive Values and the Gold Standard
Dr. Sumaira Talib’s supervisor hands her a classic CPSP title: diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound in acute appendicitis, taking histopathology as the gold…
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Quasi-Experimental Studies: How to Evaluate an Intervention When You Cannot Randomise
The hospital is opening an adherence counselling desk in the medicine OPD, and the Medical Superintendent wants Dr. Junaid Rashid to tell…
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CPSP Notice: Seven Journals No Longer Accepted for the Research Article Requirement (Effective 1 October 2026)
The Research Evaluation Unit of CPSP has announced that publications in seven journals, including Cureus, will no longer be accepted for the…
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Randomised Controlled Trials: Randomisation, Allocation Concealment, Blinding and Trial Registration
Dr. Hammad Ali brings his first trial synopsis in a plastic sleeve: odd and even dates for allocation, pain scored by himself,…
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Cohort Study Design: How to Follow Patients Forward and Calculate Relative Risk
Dr. Junaid Rashid arrives early with a blue-pen timeline he drew himself, and it turns out to be a cohort study. In…
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Reference Managers and Citation Styles: EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Vancouver and Harvard
Dr. Hammad Ali spends forty-seven minutes typing eleven references in three different styles, and his supervisor stops reading at the reference list.…
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How to Write Research Objectives and a Hypothesis: The Blueprint of Your Study
Dr. Bushra Fatima’s synopsis has one specific objective: “to find the outcomes.” In this post of The Research Clinic, she learns to…
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How to Search PubMed the Right Way: MeSH Terms, Boolean Operators and AI
Dr. Hammad Ali searches for research on Google and YouTube, and Dr. Zunaira Malik drowns in tens of thousands of PubMed results.…