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Insights on the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM) guideline addressing medical overuse
Insights on the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM) guideline addressing medical overuse
Overdiagnosis is a common phenomenon. It is defined as the identification of an abnormality that would not have harmed the...
Reporting health and medical research
Reporting health and medical research
Reporting guidelines aim to improve the accuracy, completeness and transparency of health and medical research publication...
Guidelines for the development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures: a scoping review
Guidelines for the development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures: a scoping review
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Clinical effect and contributing factors of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and pairwise and exploratory network meta-analysis
Clinical effect and contributing factors of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and pairwise and exploratory network meta-analysis
IntroductionOsteoarthritis (OA) is emerging as a common degenerative disease and one of the leading causes of disability w...
Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Cancer screening attendance rates in transgender and gender-diverse patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
IntroductionAn estimated 0.3%–0.8% of UK and US people are transgender compared with a worldwide frequency of 0.8%–2%.1–3 ...
CARE-radiology statement explanation and elaboration: reporting guideline for radiological case reports
CARE-radiology statement explanation and elaboration: reporting guideline for radiological case reports
IntroductionCase reports describe in detail the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of individual patient(...
Integrating large language models in systematic reviews: a framework and case study using ROBINS-I for risk of bias assessment
Integrating large language models in systematic reviews: a framework and case study using ROBINS-I for risk of bias assessment
AbstractLarge language models (LLMs) may facilitate and expedite systematic reviews, although the approach to integrate LL...
iHealthFacts: a health fact-checking website for the public
iHealthFacts: a health fact-checking website for the public
Unreliable health information has been identified as a public health challenge. It may lead individuals to explore unprove...
Quantifying the time-varying association between objectively measured physical activity and mortality in US older adults over a 12-year follow-up period: the NHANES 2003-2006 study
Quantifying the time-varying association between objectively measured physical activity and mortality in US older adults over a 12-year follow-up period: the NHANES 2003-2006 study
AbstractObjectively measuring physical activity (PA) has consistently shown an association with reduced all-cause mortalit...
Direct-to-consumer advertising: a modifiable driver of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Direct-to-consumer advertising: a modifiable driver of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
The USA and New Zealand (NZ) are the only high-income countries that allow unrestricted direct-to-consumer advertising (DT...
Rapid reviews methods series: considerations and recommendations for evidence synthesis in rapid reviews
Rapid reviews methods series: considerations and recommendations for evidence synthesis in rapid reviews
IntroductionThis paper provides additional education and considerations from the Cochrane Rapid Review Methods Group (RRMG...
Call to improve transparent communication in direct-to-consumer test marketing
Call to improve transparent communication in direct-to-consumer test marketing
All tests ‘(…) do harm; some do good as well, and, of these, some do more good than harm at reasonable cost.’ Muir Gray an...
Reducing low value care: opportunities and challenges for Choosing Wisely campaigns
Reducing low value care: opportunities and challenges for Choosing Wisely campaigns
Low value care harms patients (due to adverse events of treatments or secondary unwarranted tests), overburdens healthcare...
Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines
Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines
Over time, an international consensus on ‘best practice’ for developing a range of guidelines has been reached in many are...
Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations
Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations
Scientific progress, including in evidence-based medicine, requires all available evidence to be accessed, scrutinised, in...
Adherence to the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) of studies on evidence-based healthcare e-learning: a cross-sectional study
Adherence to the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) of studies on evidence-based healthcare e-learning: a cross-sectional study
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Genetic predisposition, modifiable lifestyles, and their joint effects on human lifespan: evidence from multiple cohort studies
Genetic predisposition, modifiable lifestyles, and their joint effects on human lifespan: evidence from multiple cohort studies
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Trivalent and quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in adults aged 60 and older: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Trivalent and quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in adults aged 60 and older: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPICSeasonal influenza vaccination of older adults (≥60 years old) is an important societal...
Rapid review methods series: Guidance on the use of supportive software
Rapid review methods series: Guidance on the use of supportive software
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPICWHAT THIS STUDY ADDSThis paper presents an overview of considerations and recommendatio...
Preventing overdiagnosis and overuse: proposed guidance for guideline panels
Preventing overdiagnosis and overuse: proposed guidance for guideline panels
Moving from evidence to recommendations, guideline panels can influence decisions in everyday clinical practice. Consequen...
Survey of US physicians attitudes and knowledge of AI
Survey of US physicians attitudes and knowledge of AI
IntroductionArtificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare have proliferated over the past several years.1 Potent...
Teaching to address overdiagnosis
Teaching to address overdiagnosis
The whole art of medicine is in observation… but to educate the eye to see, the ear to hear and the finger to feel takes t...
Ethical implications of AI-driven bias assessment in medicine
Ethical implications of AI-driven bias assessment in medicine
Barsby et al present a thought-provoking pilot study which discusses the application of large language models (LLMs) for a...
Overly complex methods may impair pragmatic use of core evidence-based medicine principles
Overly complex methods may impair pragmatic use of core evidence-based medicine principles
The aphorism suggesting that we should keep things as simple as possible but not simpler applies well to the world of evid...
How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID
How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID
Key messagesThe existing epidemiological research on long COVID has suffered from overly broad case definitions and a stri...
High-value care education can learn from the evidence-based medicine movement: moving beyond competencies and curricula to culture
High-value care education can learn from the evidence-based medicine movement: moving beyond competencies and curricula to culture
High-value care (HVC) is ‘the best care for the patient, with the optimal result for the circumstances, delivered at the r...
Twenty-one years of the International Shared Decision Making Conference: lessons learnt and future priorities
Twenty-one years of the International Shared Decision Making Conference: lessons learnt and future priorities
The first International Shared Decision Making (ISDM) Conference took place in Oxford (UK), 2001. It was attended by 120 m...
Ecological study estimating melanoma overdiagnosis in the USA using the lifetime risk method
Ecological study estimating melanoma overdiagnosis in the USA using the lifetime risk method
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPICThe incidence of cutaneous melanoma has risen significantly in the USA over the past 40...
De-escalation of dual antiplatelet therapy for patients with acute coronary syndrome after percutaneous coronary intervention: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
De-escalation of dual antiplatelet therapy for patients with acute coronary syndrome after percutaneous coronary intervention: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
AbstractObjectives To compare dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) de-escalation with five alternative DAPT strategies in pati...
Efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions for primary dysmenorrhoea: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis
Efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions for primary dysmenorrhoea: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC?Management of primary dysmenorrhoea mainly focus on western medicines; however, side e...
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