Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) refers to the systematic and transparent process of identifying, appraising and mobilising the best available evidence to inform the development of safe and ...

1 Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 2 Knowledge and Evaluation Research ...

Network meta-analysis (NMA) is an increasingly popular statistical method of synthesising evidence to assess the comparative benefits and harms of multiple treatments in a single analysis. Several ...

Correspondence to Sir Iain Chalmers, James Lind Initiative, Summertown Pavilion, Middle Way, Oxford OX2 7LG, UK; ichalmers{at}jameslind.net We are surrounded by maelstroms of claims about the effects ...

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Health technology assessment in India in the next decade: reflections on a vision for its path to maturity and impact ...

1 Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 2 Graduated School of Health Sciences (GHS), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 3 Swiss Pharmacists’ Association ...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents the largest public health crisis of the past century. Faced with a global threat, public health officials, professional societies, clinicians and patients have ...

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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Objectives Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are the foundation of modern evidence-based medicine and their use is becoming more prolific than randomised trials. However, systematic reviews are ...

In a formerly widespread approach to medical decision making, physicians made a diagnosis, considered the management alternatives, and informed patients what would be done to help them. Decision ...