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

Drug treatment to reduce cholesterol to new target levels is now recommended in four moderate- to high-risk patient populations: patients who have already sustained a cardiovascular event, adult ...

The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Professor Kazem Rahimi, The George Institute for Global Health, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, ...

Objectives To empirically evaluate five commonly used meta-analysis methods and their impact on imprecision judgements about effect estimates. The two fixed-effect model methods were the inverse ...

Data-dredging bias encompasses a number of more specific questionable practices (eg, fishing, p-hacking) all of which involve probing data using unplanned analyses and then reporting salient results ...

Correspondence to Professor John Brodersen, Centre of Research & Education in General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen 1014, ...

Correspondence to Dr Elaine Lehane, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland; e.lehane{at}ucc.ie To highlight and advance clinical ...

1 NIHR ARC South West Peninsula, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK 2 University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK Correspondence to Dr ...

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 ...

Objective To determine, for people seeking a date online, what activities and behaviours have an effect on the chances of converting electronic communication into a face-to-face meeting. Methods ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Veronika Williams, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; veronika.williams{at}phc.ox.ac.uk Given its scope and its place ...