Ethnicity data are essential in understanding how different groups are impacted by different treatments/healthcare ...

Publishes original research, insights and opinions on evidence-based research. Focuses on the tools, methods, and concepts that are central to practising evidence-based medicine.

Care happens in interaction between the patient and the clinician, in conversation where the patient and clinician uncover or develop a shared understanding of the problematic situation of the patient ...

Background Misleading information about medical products on social media may cause overuse. Objectives Explore interventions targeting the problem of misleading medical information and marketing on ...

A multidisciplinary framework for designing rapidly deployable, scalable and context-specific decarbonisation interventions for clinical care has been developed within the National Health Service, ...

In 2023, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to strengthen rehabilitation within health systems, calling for rehabilitation research. Within health, the term rehabilitation has multiple ...

Participants All adults (≥18 years) examined with dipsticks at emergency departments in North Denmark Region from September 20 through 23 October 2021. Main outcome measures UTI was defined as ≥1 ...

Globally, drug regulators have approved statins for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), although their use in primary prevention has been controversial. A highly publicised debate has ...

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RR) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...

Objectives To assess the efficacy of smartphone apps for smoking cessation (SC) used alone or combined with traditional interventions, and to determine whether apps based on psychological-behavioural ...

As a heart surgeon, you regularly perform aortic valve replacement, using a median sternotomy technique. However, you are aware that less-invasive options are available, and you wonder whether these ...

An increasing number of rapid scoping, mapping reviews and evidence gap maps (‘Big Picture Reviews’ (BPRs)) are being undertaken to address broad research questions and provide an overview of a topic.