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

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care’s (CTFPHC) mandate was to develop and disseminate evidence-based clinical ...
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Perspectives on the definition of ‘evidence’: a qualitative interview study among interest-holders

Design and setting This qualitative study employed purposeful sampling to select respondents from various disciplines and ...
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Paracetamol as first line for treatment of knee and hip osteoarthritis

Correspondence to Dr Igho J Onakpoya, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; igho.onakpoya{at}phc.ox.ac.uk Although several clinical guidelines ...
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Evidence based medicine manifesto for better healthcare

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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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Using Risk of Bias 2 to assess results from randomised controlled trials: guidance from Cochrane

Correspondence to Dr Kerry Dwan, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK; Kerry.dwan{at}york.ac.uk A systematic review identifies, appraises and synthesises all the ...
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The limits of shared decision making

Correspondence to Professor Glyn Elwyn, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA; glynelwyn{at}gmail.com Nevertheless we ...
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Harms of CT scanning prior to surgery for suspected appendicitis

Correspondence to: Dr William Rogers, Department of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 3800 Reservoir Rd, NW CCC Building, Room CG146, Washington DC, USA; ...
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Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?

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A topical cream containing glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate reduced joint pain in osteoarthritis of the knee

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EBHC pyramid 5.0 for accessing preappraised evidence and guidance

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 ...
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Patients with coronary heart disease and very low blood pressure are at increased risk of cardiovascular events

The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Professor Kazem Rahimi, The George Institute for Global Health, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, ...