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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Environmental Lessons Learned and Applied (ELLA): a new framework for identifying, prioritising and implementing decarbonisation interventions in clinical care pathways

A multidisciplinary framework for designing rapidly deployable, scalable and context-specific decarbonisation interventions for clinical care has been developed within the National Health Service, ...
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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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Less is more - but for whom? Evaluating patient reported outcomes in de-implementation

All over the world, patients receive healthcare that has little to no benefit, also called low-value care. There have been an increasing number of initiatives to reduce, or de-implement, low-value ...
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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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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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Coroners’ concerns to prevent harms: a series of coroners’ case reports to serve patient safety and educate the public, clinicians and policy-makers

Correspondence to Georgia C Richards, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK; ...
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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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Comparing data accuracy between structured abstracts and full-text journal articles: implications in their use for informing clinical decisions

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Raymond Francis Sarmiento Lister Hill National Center for ...
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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; ...