Care happens in interaction between the patient and the clinician, in conversation where the patient and clinician uncover or develop a shared understanding of the problematic situation of the patient ...

New government legislation is necessary to ensure full transparency of industry payments in the UK’s healthcare. A first step should involve challenging the industry-driven discourse that allows ...

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC Assessing risk of bias in the results of included studies of a systematic review is a key step in ensuring our confidence in the review’s findings. A new tool for ...

Summary box Data transparency has become a well-established norm in biomedical research, and is especially important for broadly used public health interventions like COVID-19 vaccines. Tax payers ...

Journal clubs, typically involving a group of health professionals or trainees who discuss recent study findings, have long ...

Current convention One PICO for questions about medical tests has been advocated by many: Population, Index test, Comparator test and test accuracy as Outcome. 2–4 The index test is the new diagnostic ...

What it is Overdetection refers to the identification of abnormalities that were never going to cause harm, abnormalities that do not progress, that progress too slowly to cause symptoms or harm ...

This series includes two articles about health information on social media platforms. This is the first article in which we present a framework for clinicians to appraise and interpret data directly ...

Greenhalgh et al 1 argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered a need for a shift in the evidence-based medicine (EBM) paradigm in which mechanistic evidence is also used as a complementary source ...

Health inequities have long defined health and the healthcare system in the USA. The clinical and research capacity across the USA is unparalleled, yet compared to other high and even some ...

Expanding disease definitions are causing more and more previously healthy people to be labelled as diseased, contributing to the problem of overdiagnosis and related overtreatment. Often the ...

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RRs) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...