BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Methylphenidate denied access to WHO’s list of essential medicines for the third time

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 3%–5% of children and about 2.5% of adults, though prevalence varies ...
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Using and distinguishing evidence from non-randomised studies of interventions

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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

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Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines

Correspondence to Dr Sietse Wieringa, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; c.h.s.wieringa{at}medisin.uio.no Over time, an international consensus on ‘best ...
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21 Inappropriate hospitalisations, aggressive treatments, and insufficient deprescribing: the medicalisation of death from natural causes

Objectives To generate evidence for extent of and determinants of overtreatment of older people (60+ years) in hospitals and identify possible solutions. Methods We conducted four systematic reviews ...
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Rapid access to innovative medicinal products while ensuring relevant health technology assessment. Position of the French National Authority for Health

Correspondence to Doctor Antoine Vanier, Health Technology Assessment Department, Haute Autorité de Santé, La Plaine Saint-Denis, 93210, France; a.vanier{at}has-sante.fr In France, decisions for ...
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Ten essential papers for the practice of evidence-based medicine

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Reducing the environmental impact of healthcare to improve health, sustainability and equity

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Optimal anticoagulant treatment of cancer-associated venous thromboembolism remains unclear

Correspondence to Dr Hanny Al-Samkari, Division of Hematology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02114, USA; hal-samkari{at}mgh.harvard.edu ...
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Institute for Scientific Freedom

Scientific freedom and freedom of speech are constantly under attack because of financial, political, religious and other interests. These essential values in democracies get eroded if we do not ...
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How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID

The existing epidemiological research on long COVID has suffered from overly broad case definitions and a striking absence of control groups, which have led to distortion of risk. The unintended ...
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073 Comparative effectiveness of patient decision aids vs. encounter decision aids for shared decision making about stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation - a ...

6 University of Alabama at Birmingham – United States of America Background Guidelines recommend shared decision making (SDM) for anticoagulation selection in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).