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 E H Morreim, Internal Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Memphis, Memphis, TN 38103, USA; hmorreim{at}uthsc.edu To advance healthcare ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland 2 School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Objectives ...

Objectives Most breast screening programs worldwide have replaced screen-film mammography (SFM) with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) in expectation of technical, clinical and economic advantages ...

The phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis, the diagnosis of a malignant tumour that, without detection, would never lead to adverse health effects, has been reported for several cancer types in different ...