BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Building capacity in evidence-based healthcare: a mixed-methods evaluation of training activities in South Africa

Objectives Cochrane South Africa (CSA) is a Cochrane geographic group established in 1997, aiming to advance the skills and ...
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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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Less is more for patients, practitioners, public and planet: a taxonomy for the harms of too much medicine ...
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Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?

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Survey of instructions for authors on how to report an update of a systematic review: guidance is needed

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The complexity underlying treatment rankings: how to use them and what to look at

Correspondence to Virginia Chiocchia, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland; virginia.chiocchia{at}ispm.unibe.ch Treatment hierarchies obtained by ...
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7 How should we communicate about overdiagnosis? When we talk about overdiagnosis, what do people hear?

Overdiagnosis researchers and advocates care about the challenging and counterintuitive problem of overdiagnosis, and many are keen to inform others about the problem. Literature review suggests ...
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029 Assessment of shared decision-making levels with the option-5: a systematic review after 10 years of use

Introduction In 2013, the Observing Patient Involvement in Decision Making instrument (OPTION-5) was developed to measure levels of shared decision-making (SDM) in consultations. 1 Since then, it has ...
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075 Measuring healthcare provessionals’ perceptions of their ability to adopt shared decision making: translation and psychometric evaluation of the Danish version of the ...

1 Department of Renal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark 2 Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 3 Leeds Unit of Complex Intervention Development, ...
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Effectiveness and clinical relevance of kinesio taping in musculoskeletal disorders: an overview of systematic reviews and evidence mapping

Objectives To investigate the effectiveness and clinical relevance of kinesio taping (KT) in musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) at different follow-ups. Design Overview of systematic reviews (SRs) and ...
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Prediction models in clinical guidelines: a scoping review of clinical guideline guidance development documents

Objectives Probability or risk outcome estimates tailored to individual patient characteristics can facilitate more personalised care, for example, regarding treatment. Yet, the uptake of prediction ...
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Loss of an ideal: how politics and misinformed advocacy killed the Canadian Task Force

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