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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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Defining and interpreting the clinical relevance of intervention effects for patient-reported outcomes: the smallest worthwhile effect construct

In clinical research, statistically significant effects do not necessarily indicate that an intervention provides benefits that are meaningful to patients. This is particularly important for ...
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065 Overdiagnosis of child abuse in infants with the triad

Infants who present with the triad are often diagnosed as victims of child abuse with specific diagnoses of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), now called Abusive Head Trauma (AHT). The triad is: 1.) Subdural ...
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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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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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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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Principles for high-quality, high-value testing

Correspondence to: Michael Power Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK; Michael.Power{at}NUTH.NHS.UK ‘Training is required to ensure testing practices ...
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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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Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?

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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 ...