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.

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 ...

Choosing Wisely campaigns are clinician-led efforts to raise awareness and develop interventions to reduce low-value health care. At the core of Choosing Wisely campaigns are lists of recommendations, ...

Informed decision-making requires clinicians and patients to identify and integrate relevant evidence. But with the questionable integrity of much of today's evidence, the lack of research answering ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Acupuncture is a widely used complementary and alternative therapy around the world.1 The number of acupuncture research studies has grown markedly over the past two decades, with >10 000 publications ...

Medicine reintegrated: the rise of AI-augmented generalists AI offers unprecedented opportunities to bridge knowledge gaps in fragmented specialties—integrating disparate knowledge into unified AI ...

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 ...

Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process that employs explicit methods to evaluate the value of a health technology. This evaluation encompasses various dimensions of value, ...

Høeg et al have written an opinion piece about what they consider to be the methodological limitations of some epidemiological studies into long COVID.1 Some of these points, such as the need for a ...

Background Evaluation of the quality of evidence in systematic reviews (SRs) is essential for assertive decision-making. Although Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation ...