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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Cluster-randomised controlled trials

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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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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 ...
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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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Rapid review methods series: Guidance on the use of supportive software

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RRs) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...
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Ramipril reduced mortality and cardiovascular morbidity in high risk adults

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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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Children’s and caregivers’ participation in the development of paediatric core outcome sets: a cross-sectional analysis

Objectives This study aims to address the status of children’s and caregivers’ participation in the development of paediatric core outcome sets (COS). Methods We included all paediatric COS from a ...
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Review: usual blood pressure is directly related to vascular mortality throughout middle and old age

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