The phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis, the diagnosis of a malignant tumour that, without detection, would never lead to adverse health effects, has been reported for several cancer types in different ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Carl Heneghan, Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK; carl.heneghan{at}phc.ox.ac.uk If you wish to reuse ...

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 ...