Health literacy demands placed on patients and consumers are amplified in low-value care contexts and must be addressed as a system and organisational priority, argue Danielle Muscat and colleagues . ...

From promise to practice: challenges and pitfalls in the evaluation of large language models for data extraction in evidence synthesis ...

Objectives To compare the efficacy of influenza vaccines of any valency for adults 60 years and older. Design and setting Systematic review with network meta-analysis (NMA) of randomised controlled ...

Overdiagnosis has been described as ‘unwarranted diagnosis’ (Moynihan et al, 2018). It is the formulation and conveyance of a label –generally of a disease or condition - that can lead to patient harm ...

Qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based health care (EBHC), contributing to policy on patient safety and quality of care, supporting understanding of the impact of chronic ...

Changing disease or health risk definitions and labels where there is a case for no or little net benefit and significant harm, has the potential to affect millions of people worldwide. It appears, on ...

After conducting a database search, the subsequent phase in the execution of systematic reviews (SRs) involves title and abstract screening.1 This stage bears significant importance and necessitates ...

Living systematic reviews (LSRs) are systematic reviews that are continually updated, incorporating relevant new evidence as it becomes available. LSRs are critical for decision-making in topics where ...

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

Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of open-label placebos (OLP) in premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Switzerland, 2018–2020. Participants 150 women ...

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 ...

Choosing Wisely campaigns are clinician-led efforts to raise awareness and develop interventions to reduce low-value health care. At the core of Choosing Wisely campaigns are lists of recommendations, ...