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 ...

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Gram et al ’s taxonomy of the harms of ‘too much medicine’ offers a valuable and timely framework for understanding how medical excess affects patients, practitioners, the public and the planet.1 ...

Objectives Our objective was to develop and test prompts designed to generate balanced, evidence-based information from ...

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Objective To inform the development of an evidence synthesis taxonomy, we aimed to identify and examine all classification systems, typologies or taxonomies that have been proposed for evidence ...

The practice of medicine is often evaluated by its ability to improve health outcomes. For example, the value of a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) might be assessed by the percentage of patients who ...

Objective To assess evidence of overall survival (OS) benefits of cancer drugs listed in China’s National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL), the guiding standard for public insurance coverage of drugs ...

Objective This study aims to comprehensively review the literature on the use of speech biomarkers in disease diagnosis and monitoring, focusing on recording protocols, speech tasks, speech features ...

Background Misleading information about medical products on social media may cause overuse. Objectives Explore interventions targeting the problem of misleading medical information and marketing on ...

Objectives To investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia. Design Prospective cohort and case–control analyses combined with linear and non-linear Mendelian randomisation.

Correspondence to Dr Hendrika J Luijendijk, General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, The Netherlands; h.j.luijendijk{at}umcg.nl PICOs are ...