BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Advancing the ‘Choosing Wisely’ campaign to reduce low-value care in China

Jay Pan and colleagues stress that reducing low-value medical services and enhancing healthcare quality must be an urgent priority in China; advancing the Choosing Wisely initiative represents a ...
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Trump’s statements about acetaminophen and the problem of epistemic corrections

Medical experts, health agencies and journalists reacted swiftly to President Trump’s remarks linking prenatal acetaminophen (commercial name Tylenol) use to autism, almost uniformly condemning his ...
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Cluster-randomised controlled trials

As a public health practitioner, you are considering how public health interventions might encourage individuals and families to reduce their salt intake to improve blood pressure among local ...
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Online First

Patient-reported outcomes and acupuncture-related adverse events are overlooked in acupuncture randomised controlled trials: a cross-sectional meta-epidemiological study ...
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Dietary Recommendations for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: an Evidence-Free Zone

We have evaluated dietary recommendations for people diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a genetic condition in which increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is ...
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Reducing the residue of retractions in evidence synthesis: ways to minimise inappropriate citation and use of retracted data

Correspondence to Dr Jodi Schneider, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA; jschneider{at}pobox.com; jodi{at}illinois.edu The incorporation ...
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Ramipril reduced mortality and cardiovascular morbidity in high risk adults

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Theory and practice of Bayesian and frequentist frameworks for network meta-analysis

Network meta-analysis (NMA) is an increasingly popular statistical method of synthesising evidence to assess the comparative benefits and harms of multiple treatments in a single analysis. Several ...
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201 Shared decision-making on hospital wards: an observational study

Introduction Current evidence on the application of Shared Decision-Making (SDM) merely draws from the outpatient setting. To gain understanding of its application in the inpatient setting, we ...
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Clinician and health service interventions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by healthcare: a systematic review

Objective To synthesise the available evidence on the effects of interventions designed to improve the delivery of healthcare that reduces the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of healthcare. Design ...
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Rapid Reviews Methods Series: Involving patient and public partners, healthcare providers and policymakers as knowledge users

Correspondence to Dr Chantelle Garritty, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada; garritty{at}gmail.com Rapid reviews (RRs) are ...