BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Reporting GUideline for Intervention DEscription in Rehabilitation (GUIDE-Rehab): a tool to open the ‘black box’ of rehabilitation complex interventions

In 2023, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to strengthen rehabilitation within health systems, calling for ...
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Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on literature search

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RR) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...
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Current knowledge on the adaptation of clinical practice guidelines: a scoping review

Background The adaptation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is increasingly used to efficiently develop contextualised recommendations for local, regional and national settings. However, ...
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Ataluren for Duchenne: how politics and social pressure undermined evidence-based decisions

Last 28 March 2025, the European Commission decided not to renew the conditional marketing authorisation for Translarna (ataluren) in Duchenne’s disease due to lack of efficacy after 11 years in the ...
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Regression to the mean: a primer for evidence-based medicine practitioners

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Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations

Correspondence to Dr Patricia Logullo, UK EQUATOR Network Centre, Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM), University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LD, UK; patricia.logullo{at}ndorms.ox.ac.uk Scientific ...
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Online First

Toward automating GRADE classification: a proof-of-concept evaluation of an artificial intelligence-based tool for semiautomated evidence quality rating in systematic reviews ...
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How good is the evidence to support primary care practice?

Correspondence to Dr Mark H Ebell, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, 125 Miller Hall, UGA Health Sciences Campus, Athens, GA 30602, USA; ...
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When to include clinical study reports and regulatory documents in systematic reviews

Correspondence to Dr Tom Jefferson, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Primary Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; ...
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Trivalent and quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in adults aged 60 and older: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Objectives To compare the efficacy of influenza vaccines of any valency for adults 60 years and older. Design and setting Systematic review with network meta-analysis (NMA) of randomised controlled ...
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Deaths attributed to the use of medications purchased online

Correspondence to Dr Jeffrey K Aronson, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK; ...