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Choosing Wisely campaigns are clinician-led efforts to raise awareness and develop interventions to reduce low-value health care. At the core of Choosing Wisely campaigns are lists of recommendations, ...
Correspondence to Georgia C Richards, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; georgia.richards{at}kellogg.ox.ac.uk ...
Correspondence to Dr Veronika Williams, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; veronika.williams{at}phc.ox.ac.uk To understand why qualitative ...
A network meta-analysis combines the evidence from existing randomised trials about the comparative efficacy of multiple treatments. It allows direct and indirect evidence about each comparison to be ...
Introduction Current forms of peer review are characterized by scrutinization of research evidence and grant applications by experts within the same field. Despite the homogeneity in reviewers' fields ...
Correspondence to Dr Minna Johansson, General Practice, University of Gothenburg, Goteborg 45152, Sweden; minna.johansson{at}vgregion.se A companion project outlining the methods in more detail has ...
The burden of death due to firearms is an ongoing public health problem in the USA. US men had a 21% life expectancy loss due to firearms compared with men from other countries.1 In 2016, 7.8% of the ...
Correspondence to Professor Morten Lindbaek, Department of General Practice, Antibiotic Centre for Primary Care, Oslo, 0317, Norway; morten.lindbak{at}medisin.uio.no If you wish to reuse any or all of ...
3 Patient Experience Observatory. Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 4 Gynecology service. Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain 5 Atenció a la Salut Sexual i Reproductiva (ASSIR ...
Introduction Decisions about the management of Antithrombotic Therapy (ATT) for patients with advanced cancer towards the end-of-life are complex with a lack of evidence about optimal management.
Correspondence to Aidan G Cashin, Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia; a.cashin{at}neura.edu.au Scientific progress ...
Dr Andrew L Lux Department of Paediatric Neurology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Floor 6, UHBristol Education Centre, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8AE, UK; andrew.lux{at}bristol.ac.uk If ...