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Evaluation of reported claims of sex-based differences in treatment effects across meta-analyses: a meta-research study (19 June, 2025) ...
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Developing a core outcome set for dysphagia interventions in Parkinson’s disease: an international Delphi consensus study

Objectives To develop a core outcome set (COS) for oropharyngeal dysphagia (swallowing disorder) interventions in Parkinson’s disease by agreeing core outcomes and definitions, outcome measurement ...
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MetaImpact: a novel tool to enable evidence-based sample sizes for future trials

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Are we ready for AI-augmented generalists?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping medical practice and education by unifying the knowledge of medical specialties and subspecialties into a single, intelligent system. This system functions ...
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Exploring the diverse definitions of ‘evidence’: a scoping review

Objectives To systematically collect and analyse diverse definitions of ‘evidence’ in both health and social sciences, and help users to correctly use the term ‘evidence’ and rethink what is the ...
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60 Focusing on the mother/baby dyad: let’s aim for healthy mothers as well as healthy babies

More than 300,000 babies are born each year in Australia and the average age of first time mothers has been increasing over recent decades (the average now being 28 years). The average weight of ...
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Blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions: a retrospective study of published trial reports

Objectives To study the extent of blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions and the interpretative considerations if randomised clinical trials are not blinded. Design ...
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BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine in 2018

We started the year with a rebrand of our name and the look of the journal and instigated some new policies: mandating ORCID ID for all submitting authors, a data sharing policy, and offering language ...
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Stopping smoking in the weeks prior to surgery has no effect on the risk of postoperative complications

Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Nancy A Rigotti Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, ...
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Review: stretching before or after exercise does not prevent muscle soreness or reduce risk of injury

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011 Development and nation-wide implementation of a patient decision aid including real-world outcome information to support shared decision making about treatment for non ...

3 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht/Nieuwegein, The Netherlands 4 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical ...
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6 Global burden of disease 2017 estimates for major depressive disorder: a critical appraisal of the epidemiological evidence

Objectives To critically appraise the quality of the studies underpinning the GBD 2017 estimates for MDD with respect to i) the GBD 2017 inclusion criteria and ii) population coverage. Methods Of 431 ...