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BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine (BMJ EBM) publishes original evidence-based research, insights and opinions on what matters for health care. We focus on the tools, methods, and concepts that are basic and ...
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077 How can shared decision-making turn into paternalism – and how should we think about this ethically?

Introduction When a health professional overrides a patient’s preferences for the patient’s own good, we have a case of paternalism. Paternalism is commonly considered ethically problematic and ...
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Toward automating GRADE classification: a proof-of-concept evaluation of an artificial intelligence-based tool for semiautomated evidence quality rating in systematic reviews ...
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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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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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Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent

Evidence-based medicine (EBM’s) traditional methods, especially randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses, along with risk-of-bias tools and checklists, have contributed significantly to ...
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The Cochrane HPV vaccine review was incomplete and ignored important evidence of bias

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Environmental Lessons Learned and Applied (ELLA): a new framework for identifying, prioritising and implementing decarbonisation interventions in clinical care pathways

A multidisciplinary framework for designing rapidly deployable, scalable and context-specific decarbonisation interventions for clinical care has been developed within the National Health Service, ...
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How good is the evidence to support primary care practice?

Correspondence to Dr Mark H Ebell, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, 125 Miller Hall, UGA Health Sciences Campus, Athens, GA 30602, USA; ...
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Current knowledge on the adaptation of clinical practice guidelines: a scoping review

Background The adaptation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is increasingly used to efficiently develop contextualised recommendations for local, regional and national settings. However, ...