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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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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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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Loss of an ideal: how politics and misinformed advocacy killed the Canadian Task Force

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Applying the estimand framework to safety: aligning estimators with treatment effects in the presence of intercurrent events

Understanding the risks associated with healthcare interventions is essential for clinical decision-making and for the regulatory evaluation of new drugs. Yet, safety analyses in randomised controlled ...
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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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Educating health professionals in evidence-based practice in 2026

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Improving inclusivity in UK clinical trials through good practice in the collection and use of ethnicity data: recommendations from the INCLUDED study

Ethnicity data are essential in understanding how different groups are impacted by different treatments/healthcare interventions, but more work is needed in how these data should be collected, handled ...