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 ...
Background Cancer screening programmes have the potential to reduce mortality, but screening programmes can also involve harms such as overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Significant rates of ...
Background Musculoskeletal knee pain is a large and costly problem, and meniscal tears make up a large proportion of diagnoses. ‘Special tests’ to diagnose torn menisci are often used in the physical ...
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With the social and economic development, governments and industries increasingly recognise service standards as essential tools for delivering efficient and consensus-based solutions.1 Service ...
Jay Pan and colleagues stress that reducing low-value medical services and enhancing healthcare quality must be an urgent priority in China; advancing the Choosing Wisely initiative represents a ...
As a public health practitioner, you are considering how public health interventions might encourage individuals and families to reduce their salt intake to improve blood pressure among local ...
Medical experts, health agencies and journalists reacted swiftly to President Trump’s remarks linking prenatal acetaminophen (commercial name Tylenol) use to autism, almost uniformly condemning his ...
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 ...
Dr Luijendijk1 has identified an elephant in the evidence-based medicine (EBM) classroom: patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO acronym) for the formulation of clinical questions, teaching ...
Correspondence to: Dr Brian S Alper, DynaMed, EBSCO Health, 10 Estes Street, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA; balper{at}ebsco.com Practising evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) is integrating the best research ...