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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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Ataluren for Duchenne: how politics and social pressure undermined evidence-based decisions

Last 28 March 2025, the European Commission decided not to renew the conditional marketing authorisation for Translarna (ataluren) in Duchenne’s disease due to lack of efficacy after 11 years in the ...
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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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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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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 assessing the certainty of evidence

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RRs) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...
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Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations

Correspondence to Dr Patricia Logullo, UK EQUATOR Network Centre, Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM), University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LD, UK; patricia.logullo{at}ndorms.ox.ac.uk Scientific ...
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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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Developing a core outcome set for dysphagia interventions in Parkinson’s disease: an international Delphi consensus study

Objectives To develop a core outcome set (COS) for oropharyngeal dysphagia (swallowing disorder) interventions in Parkinson’s disease by agreeing core outcomes and definitions, outcome measurement ...