Objectives Our objective was to develop and test prompts designed to generate balanced, evidence-based information from ...

Gram et al ’s taxonomy of the harms of ‘too much medicine’ offers a valuable and timely framework for understanding how medical excess affects patients, practitioners, the public and the planet.1 ...

Correspondence to Dr Kerry Dwan, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK; Kerry.dwan{at}york.ac.uk A systematic review identifies, appraises and synthesises all the ...

Correspondence to: Professor Murray Skeaff, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; murray.skeaff{at}otago.ac.nz If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeremy Puthumana, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; jeremy.puthumana{at}yale.edu Contributors JP and JR drafted the manuscript. JP and ACE acquired ...

This electronic resource aims to provide physicians with fast and easy access to practical guidelines linked to the best available research evidence. It covers a wide range of medical conditions and ...

The efficacy of antidepressants in the acute treatment of moderate-to-severe depression remains a controversial issue. The minimal important difference (MID) is relevant to judge the clinical ...

Objectives The provision of orthodontic (dental) care is part of the German Public Health sector comprising 90% of German population. The current regulations for the provision of orthodontic care in ...

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 ...

Background The global health sector is responsible for approximately 5% of global net carbon emissions and is therefore a major contributor to climate change. Reducing unnecessary tests and treatments ...

Objective To inform the development of an evidence synthesis taxonomy, we aimed to identify and examine all classification systems, typologies or taxonomies that have been proposed for evidence ...