Objective This study evaluates whether Taiwan’s national oral cancer screening programme, implemented in 1999, has led to a ...

Xufei Luo, Yih Chung Tham, Mauro Giuffrè, Robert Ranisch, Mohammad Daher, Kyle Lam, Alexander Viktor Eriksen, Che-Wei Hsu, Akihiko Ozaki, Fabio Ynoe de Moraes, Sahil Khanna, Kuan-Pin Su, Emir Begagić, ...

What it is Overdetection refers to the identification of abnormalities that were never going to cause harm, abnormalities that do not progress, that progress too slowly to cause symptoms or harm ...

Definitions In the biomedical published literature, a case report is the description of the clinical course of one individual, which may include particular exposures, symptoms, signs, interventions or ...

Objectives Octopus is a new publishing platform designed to replace journals and papers as the means of sharing scientific knowledge and ideas. It is designed to serve the needs of science and ...

Dr Luijendijk1 has identified an elephant in the evidence-based medicine (EBM) classroom: patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO acronym) for the formulation of clinical questions, teaching ...

People often use infographics (also called visual or graphical abstracts) as a substitute for reading the full text of an article. This is a concern because most infographics do not present sufficient ...

Objectives To investigate the associations between device-measured and self-reported physical activity (PA) and incident common mental disorders in the general population. Design and setting ...

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 ...

Evidence-based clinical practice in evolution Traditionally, clinicians have been credited with clinical acumen according to their skills in making a diagnosis and prescribing or administering a ...

Shared decision-making (SDM) is increasingly recognised as fundamental to patient-centred care and enabling patients to make voluntary, informed decisions about their health.1 SDM is the process ...

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RRs) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...