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WEB98.9. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine (BMJ EBM) publishes original evidence-based research, insights and opinions on what matters for health care. We focus on the tools, methods, and concepts that are basic and central to practising evidence-based medicine and deliver relevant, trustworthy and impactful evidence.
New evidence pyramid - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
WEBThe proposed new evidence-based medicine pyramid. (A) The traditional pyramid. (B) Revising the pyramid: (1) lines separating the study designs become wavy (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation), (2) systematic reviews are ‘chopped off’ the pyramid. (C) The revised pyramid: systematic reviews …
Summarising good practice guidelines for data extraction for …
WEBData extraction is the process of a systematic review that occurs between identifying eligible studies and analysing the data, whether it can be a qualitative synthesis or a quantitative synthesis involving the pooling of data in a meta-analysis. The aims of data extraction are to obtain information about the included studies in terms of the characteristics of each study and its population and ...
About - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
WEBBMJ Evidence-Based Medicine aims to: Publish research, insights and opinions on what matters for health care. Focus on the tools, methods, and concepts that are basic and central to teaching and practising evidence-based medicine (EBM). We deliver relevant, trustworthy and impactful evidence by: Publishing relevant research from primary studies ...
Critical appraisal of qualitative research: necessity, partialities and ...
WEBQualitative evidence allows researchers to analyse human experience and provides useful exploratory insights into experiential matters and meaning, often explaining the ‘how’ and ‘why’. As we have argued previously1, qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based healthcare, contributing to among other things policy on patient safety,2 prescribing,3 4 and ...
Authors - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
WEBWhen publishing in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, authors choose between three licence types – exclusive licence granted to BMJ, CC-BY-NC and CC-BY (Creative Commons open access licences require payment of an article processing charge).As an author you may wish to post your article in an institutional or subject repository, or on a scientific social sharing network.
Effectiveness of tests to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus, …
WEBConclusions Evidence is rapidly emerging on the effectiveness of tests for COVID-19 diagnosis and management, but important uncertainties about their effectiveness and most appropriate application remain. Estimates of diagnostic accuracy should be interpreted bearing in mind the absence of a definitive reference standard to diagnose or rule out COVID-19 infection.
WEBfi. on its own as a surrogate for risk of bias. Certain meth-odological limitations of a study, imprecision, inconsist-ency and indirectness, were factors independent from study design and can affect the quality of evidence derived from any study design. For example, a meta-analysis of RCTs evaluating intensive glycaemic control in non ...
Up To Date - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
WEBUpToDate has 2 main goals: “to become the first place that clinicians, including students, will go when they need an answer to a specific clinical question”, and to make the information comprehensive, accurate, verifiable (well referenced), easy to access, and updated regularly. Its contents include all areas of internal medicine, but the dermatology, oncology, and neurology sections are ...
Methodological quality and synthesis of case series and case reports
WEBIn 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 outcomes. A case report is the smallest publishable unit in the literature, whereas case series report aggregates individual cases in one publication. 4.
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