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140 Understanding the use the national early warning score 2 (NEWS2) in acute care settings: a realist review
Objectives Failure to recognise and respond to patient deterioration in an appropriate and timely manner has been highlighted as a global patient safety concern. Early Warning Scores (EWSs) using ...
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Are we ready for AI-augmented generalists?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping medical practice and education by unifying the knowledge of medical specialties and subspecialties into a single, intelligent system. This system functions ...
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On reporting and interpreting statistical significance and p values in medical research
Correspondence to Cole Wayant, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK 74107, USA; cole.wayant{at}okstate.edu Recent proposals to change the p value threshold from 0.05 to ...
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14 Understanding patients’ perspectives of spirituality to inform care at the end of life: a qualitative systematic review
1 Health Research Board – Collaboration in Ireland for Clinical Effectiveness Reviews (HRB-CICER), Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), Dublin, Ireland 2 Health Research Board Centre for ...
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Synergistic effects of blood pressure-lowering drugs and statins: systematic review and meta-analysis
Correspondence to Professor Johan Sundström, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala 751 85, Sweden; johan.sundstrom{at}medsci.uu.se When a high-risk person is ...
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Understanding of research results, evidence summaries and their applicability—not critical appraisal—are core skills of medical curriculum
Correspondence to Professor Kari A O Tikkinen, Department of Urology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00290, Finland; kari.tikkinen{at}helsinki.fi To practice high quality healthcare, ...
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How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID
The existing epidemiological research on long COVID has suffered from overly broad case definitions and a striking absence of control groups, which have led to distortion of risk. The unintended ...
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Of studies, syntheses, synopses, and systems: the “4S” evolution of services for finding current best evidence
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Methodological quality and synthesis of case series and case reports
Correspondence to Dr Mohammad Hassan Murad, Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; murad.mohammad{at}mayo.edu In 1904, Dr James Herrick evaluated a 20-year-old patient ...
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Integrating evidence-based medicine skills into a medical school curriculum: a quantitative outcomes assessment
Objectives This research project aims to determine the potential differential impact of two curricular approaches to teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) on student performance on an EBM assignment ...
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Wrong guidelines: why and how often they occur
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Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis sheds doubt on protective associations between ‘moderate’ alcohol consumption and coronary heart disease
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