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

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 ...

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 ...

A Collaboration for Evidence Based Healthcare in Africa (CEBHA) has been established with partners from eight sub-Saharan African countries, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New government legislation is necessary to ensure full transparency of industry payments in the UK’s healthcare. A first step should involve challenging the industry-driven discourse that allows ...

Context Most people who stop smoking gain some weight, generally 3–6 kg. Cohort studies show that weight gain does not disappear with time. Theoretical calculations show that a gain of about 16 kg/m 2 ...

In 2003, the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) statement was published in 13 biomedical journals.1 ,2 Diagnostic accuracy studies provide estimates of a test's ability to ...

External validity is a construct that attempts to answer the question of whether we can use the results of a study in patients other than those enrolled in the study. External validity consists of two ...