BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine (BMJ EBM) publishes original evidence-based research, insights and opinions on what matters for health care. We focus on the tools, methods, and concepts that are basic and ...

Correspondence to Dr Kerry Dwan, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK; Kerry.dwan{at}york.ac.uk A systematic review identifies, appraises and synthesises all the ...

Correspondence to: Dr Brian S Alper, DynaMed, EBSCO Health, 10 Estes Street, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA; balper{at}ebsco.com Practising evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) is integrating the best research ...

Several organisations, such as the WHO, have endorsed network meta-analysis (NMA) as a powerful tool in clinical decision making. NMA is a statistical method, which simultaneously compares multiple ...

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 ...

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, ...

Objectives To map the risk profile of drug classes at the population level by identifying associations between newly prescribed reimbursed drugs and sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), thereby providing a ...

Objectives To systematically review the utilisation of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) framework within the context of WHO public health guidelines (PHGs ...

Objectives To assess the efficacy of smartphone apps for smoking cessation (SC) used alone or combined with traditional interventions, and to determine whether apps based on psychological-behavioural ...

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Objectives To compare the effectiveness of different exercise interventions in improving sleep quality and alleviating insomnia severity among patients with insomnia. Design Our study design was a ...

Objective To systematically consolidate the most consistently applicable risk factors and assess their predictive performance for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) prediction. Design Systematic ...