BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Reporting GUideline for Intervention DEscription in Rehabilitation (GUIDE-Rehab): a tool to open the ‘black box’ of rehabilitation complex interventions

In 2023, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to strengthen rehabilitation within health systems, calling for ...
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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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When to include clinical study reports and regulatory documents in systematic reviews

Correspondence to Dr Tom Jefferson, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Primary Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; ...
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Leading with options or issues to support purposeful shared decision-making in clinical practice

Shared decision-making (SDM) is the process by which patients and clinicians work together to cocreate care plans that respond to the patient’s problematic situation.1 2 In daily life, a familiar ...
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Blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions: a retrospective study of published trial reports

Objectives To study the extent of blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions and the interpretative considerations if randomised clinical trials are not blinded. Design ...
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Limited engagement with transparent and open science standards in the policies of pain journals: a cross-sectional evaluation

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 ...
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Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on literature search

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 ...
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Less is more - but for whom? Evaluating patient reported outcomes in de-implementation

All over the world, patients receive healthcare that has little to no benefit, also called low-value care. There have been an increasing number of initiatives to reduce, or de-implement, low-value ...
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Evidence based medicine manifesto for better healthcare

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Should clinical practice change to bedtime administration of antihypertensive?

Correspondence to Dr Jian-Yu E, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205-2103, USA; je1{at}jhu.edu If you wish to reuse any or all of ...
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Encouraging the use of the best available evidence in journal clubs for practising clinicians

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