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

Existing reporting checklists lack the specificity and comprehensiveness required to effectively guide the documentation of acupuncture case reports. Therefore, we developed a reporting guideline ...

MetaImpact To design a new trial based on the prospective updated meta-analysis, Sutton et al 5 propose a hybrid frequentist–Bayesian approach using simulations. New studies of a user-defined size are ...

Xufei Luo, Yih Chung Tham, Mauro Giuffrè, Robert Ranisch, Mohammad Daher, Kyle Lam, Alexander Viktor Eriksen, Che-Wei Hsu, Akihiko Ozaki, Fabio Ynoe de Moraes, Sahil Khanna, Kuan-Pin Su, Emir Begagić, ...

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 ...

Introduction: High-quality randomised controlled trials (RCTs) provide the most reliable evidence on the comparative efficacy of new medicines. However, non-randomised studies (NRS) are increasingly ...

Understanding the causes of deaths and how they can be prevented is critical for improving healthcare outcomes. At a population level, over-reporting or under-reporting of deaths can have a profound ...

Registration of health and medical research is an effective way of improving the transparency and credibility of evidence. Registration involves pre-specifying the research objectives, design, methods ...

Objective The objectives of this scoping review were to provide an overview of existing guidelines for the development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), review them for ...

In addition to reducing patient harms and wasted resources, efforts to reduce low-value care produce significant climate and population health benefits, but these benefits are typically not elucidated ...

Objectives To describe the proportion of transvaginal ultrasounds performed in a University Hospital of Buenos Aires (Argentina), requested upon a health check. Method Cross-sectional study of a ...