Qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based health care (EBHC), contributing to policy on patient safety and quality of care, supporting understanding of the impact of chronic ...

Objective This study evaluates whether Taiwan’s national oral cancer screening programme, implemented in 1999, has led to a ...

Defining goals of number communications This is a more nuanced and complicated question than most people think it is. ‘Accurate understanding’ is usually defined in the research literature as good ...

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 ...

Evidence-based medicine and coroners’ concerns Evidence-based medicine incorporates clinical expertise, patient values and the best external evidence. 8 Although systematic reviews and randomised ...

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 ...

Journal clubs, typically involving a group of health professionals or trainees who discuss recent study findings, have long been considered a fundamental element of teaching evidence-based practice.

Definitions In the biomedical published literature, a case report is the description of the clinical course of one individual, which may include particular exposures, symptoms, signs, interventions or ...

Alcohol-based hand sanitisers, if ingested, can have toxic effects and may even be lethal. Preventable deaths from ingesting hand sanitisers have been identified. This article describes two Prevent ...

Recent proposals to change the p value threshold from 0.05 to 0.005 or to retire statistical significance altogether have garnered much criticism and debate.1 2 As of the writing of our manuscript, ...

Some countries have recently introduced a new series of restrictions, including military-enforced lockdowns, to reduce the surge of new cases attributable to the spread of the delta variant.1 ...