BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Reporting GUideline for Intervention DEscription in Rehabilitation (GUIDE-Rehab): a tool to open the ‘black box’ of rehabilitation complex interventions

In 2023, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to strengthen rehabilitation within health systems, calling for ...
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Current knowledge on the adaptation of clinical practice guidelines: a scoping review

Background The adaptation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is increasingly used to efficiently develop contextualised recommendations for local, regional and national settings. However, ...
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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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Regression to the mean: a primer for evidence-based medicine practitioners

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Methodological quality and synthesis of case series and case reports

Correspondence to Dr Mohammad Hassan Murad, Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; murad.mohammad{at}mayo.edu In 1904, Dr James Herrick evaluated a 20-year-old patient ...
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Evaluation of spin in abstracts of papers in psychiatry and psychology journals

We have identified ‘spin’ in abstracts of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with nonsignificant primary endpoints in psychiatry and psychology journals. This is a cross-sectional review of clinical ...
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Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations

Correspondence to Dr Patricia Logullo, UK EQUATOR Network Centre, Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM), University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LD, UK; patricia.logullo{at}ndorms.ox.ac.uk Scientific ...
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NICE rapid guidelines: exploring political influence on guidelines

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has been presented as politically independent, asserting it is free from industry influence and conflicts of interest so that its decisions ...
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Alcohol-based hand sanitisers: a warning to mitigate future poisonings and deaths

Correspondence to Georgia C Richards, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; georgia.richards{at}kellogg.ox.ac.uk ...
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Comparing data accuracy between structured abstracts and full-text journal articles: implications in their use for informing clinical decisions

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Raymond Francis Sarmiento Lister Hill National Center for ...
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16 Adding capacity: getting EBP into the curriculum for all health professionals in ireland

Objectives Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is a cornerstone of delivering clinically effective care. An EBP capacity-building project commenced in Ireland in 2016, to build capability and leadership for ...