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BIO: Kim Kristiansen is a Family Physician from Denmark with more than 30 years of clinical experience. He is a peer reviewer for medical journals and a former TEDMED research scholar.
STORY: Kim found himself wasting so much time reading research papers that were not relevant to his patients. Now he has learned how to screen papers for clinical relevance.
LEARNING: Screen research papers for clinical relevance to avoid wasting your precious time.
“Research analysis it’s not just about reading the paper; it’s also about finding relevance in it.”
Kim Kristiansen
Guest profile
Kim Kristiansen is a Family Physician from Denmark with more than 30 years of clinical experience.
He has researched pain medicine; he is a peer reviewer for medical journals and a former TEDMED research scholar.
He is a host at the podcast Precision Evidence. He and his co-host go beyond the abstracts of clinical research papers looking for clinical relevance and precision of the evidence and discuss how to read, analyze and look for pitfalls when reading about results from clinical trials.
Finally, he is a co-founder of Zignifica, a company building a system and method to analyze clinical research for precision, relevance, and meaningfulness based on a grading system.
Worst investment ever
As a practicing physician, Kim often found himself paying interest and spending time reading papers published in medical journals that turned out to be of no clinical relevance or meaningful to his patients. This would see him waste so much of his precious time. He has learned how to analyze research papers for clinical relevance and is helping others do the same.
Lessons learned
- Be careful about how you spend your time screening for clinical relevance. Don’t waste your time reading something out of your interest and which you cannot relate to.
Andrew’s takeaways
- Allocate your resources (creativity and energy) to research findings that are worth your time.
- Dead-ends are part of the research process. When you’re in the field of research, expect to go down blind alleys and investigate a bit, you can never completely get rid of that.
Actionable advice
Do your analysis and force yourself to sync up the usefulness of the findings, not just believing that it’s correct because it was in whatever journal it was in.
No. 1 goal for the next 12 months
Kim’s number one goal for the next 12 months is to increase the awareness of clinical relevance.
Parting words
“Be curious and ask questions about the meaningful relevance of the outcomes.”
Kim Kristiansen
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