BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Improving inclusivity in UK clinical trials through good practice in the collection and use of ethnicity data: recommendations from the INCLUDED study

Ethnicity data are essential in understanding how different groups are impacted by different treatments/healthcare ...
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Loss of an ideal: how politics and misinformed advocacy killed the Canadian Task Force

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care’s (CTFPHC) mandate was to develop and disseminate evidence-based clinical ...
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Perspectives on the definition of ‘evidence’: a qualitative interview study among interest-holders

Design and setting This qualitative study employed purposeful sampling to select respondents from various disciplines and ...
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EBHC pyramid 5.0 for accessing preappraised evidence and guidance

Correspondence to: Dr Brian S Alper, DynaMed, EBSCO Health, 10 Estes Street, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA; balper{at}ebsco.com Practising evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) is integrating the best research ...
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Single screening or double screening for study selection in systematic reviews?

Correspondence to Dr Kamal R Mahtani, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; kamal.mahtani{at}phc.ox.ac.uk Systematic reviews are important ...
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Potential risks of GenAI on medical education

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) moved from an experimental novelty into mainstream use as an everyday tool in under 3 years. Large language models (LLMs) now pass portions of knowledge ...
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Acupuncture for acute migraine attacks in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Correspondence to Dr Shumei Zheng, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; shumei{at}ccmu.edu.cn To evaluate the effect and safety of acupuncture for acute ...
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Personalised chronic care planning shows limited but promising effects on physical and psychological health and self-management capabilities

Centre for Pharmacy Workforce Studies (CPWS), Manchester Pharmacy School, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: Dr Ellen I Schafheutle, Centre for Pharmacy Workforce Studies ...
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Review: cardioselective β-blockers did not reduce respiratory function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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014 What influences physiotherapists’ use of diagnostic labels for low back pain? A qualitative study

1 School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Sydney Musculoskeletal Health and Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney School of ...
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Comparing data accuracy between structured abstracts and full-text journal articles: implications in their use for informing clinical decisions

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Raymond Francis Sarmiento Lister Hill National Center for ...
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Lack of effects of evidence-based, individualised counselling on medication use in insured patients with mild hypertension in China: a randomised controlled trial

Correspondence to Professor Jinling Tang, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; jltang{at}cuhk.edu.hk Objective To ...