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 ...

Rapid reviews are a type of evidence synthesis that summarise findings from different research studies by accelerating the ...

Correspondence to Professor J. David Spence, Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre, Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, ON, N6G 2V4, Canada; dspence{at}robarts.ca ...

Correspondence to Dr Elaine Lehane, Nursing & Midwifery, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland; e.lehane{at}ucc.ie Fostering a culture of clinical effectiveness in ...

Correspondence to Matt Oxman, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo NO-0130, Norway; matt{at}mattoxman.com Healthcare students and professionals, as well as patients and ...

This paper forms part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group and addresses rapid qualitative evidence syntheses (QESs), which use modified systematic, ...

Background Musculoskeletal knee pain is a large and costly problem, and meniscal tears make up a large proportion of diagnoses. ‘Special tests’ to diagnose torn menisci are often used in the physical ...

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Correspondence to Dr Claudia Caroline Dobler, Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN 55905, USA; dobler.claudia{at}mayo.edu The uptake of new evidence in healthcare relies on ...

Globally, drug regulators have approved statins for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), although their use in primary prevention has been controversial. A highly publicised debate has ...

Correspondence to Dr Thomas R Fanshawe, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK; thomas.fanshawe{at}phc.ox.ac.uk ...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM’s) traditional methods, especially randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses, along with risk-of-bias tools and checklists, have contributed significantly to ...