Correspondence to: Professor Murray Skeaff, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; murray.skeaff{at}otago.ac.nz If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

Background low back pain (LBP) is often over-diagnosed and over-treated, leading to unnecessary healthcare costs and patient harm. Major international clinical guidelines recognize that most people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clinical examination—encompassing both patient interview and physical inspection—has long served as one of the most essential ...

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 ...