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2 days ago · Impact Factor: 9.8Citescore: 8.9All metrics >>. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine (BMJ EBM) publishes original evidence-based research, insights and opinions on what matters for health care. We focus on the tools, methods, and concepts that are basic and central to practising evidence-based medicine and deliver relevant, trustworthy and impactful ...
New evidence pyramid - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
The proposed new evidence-based medicine pyramid. (A) The traditional pyramid. (B) Revising the pyramid: (1) lines separating the study designs become wavy (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation), (2) systematic reviews are ‘chopped off’ the pyramid. (C) The revised pyramid: systematic reviews are a lens through ...
Summarising good practice guidelines for data extraction for …
Organisation. Guidelines recommend that the process of extracting data should be well organised. This involves having a clear plan, which should feature in the protocol, stating who will extract the data, the actual data that will be extracted, details about the use, development, piloting of a standardised data extraction form1 6–9 and having good data …
Shared decision-making as a method of care - BMJ Evidence …
Clinical Decision-Making; Delivery of Health Care; Evidence-Based Practice; Patient Care; Care happens in interaction between the patient and the clinician, in conversation where the patient and clinician uncover or develop a shared understanding of the problematic situation of the patient and identify, discover, or invent ways to make that …
EBM Guidelines: Evidence-Based Medicine
EBM Guidelines: Evidence-Based Medicine This electronic resource aims to provide physicians with fast and easy access to practical guidelines linked to the best available research evidence. It covers a wide range of medical conditions and is aimed at general practitioners and outpatient departments. The first electronic version was published in 1989 as a …
Critical appraisal of qualitative research: necessity, partialities and ...
Qualitative evidence allows researchers to analyse human experience and provides useful exploratory insights into experiential matters and meaning, often explaining the ‘how’ and ‘why’. As we have argued previously1, qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based healthcare, contributing to among other things policy on patient safety,2 prescribing,3 4 …
Updated 2018 NICE guideline on pharmacological treatments for …
In March 2018, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) updated its guideline (NG87) on diagnosing and managing attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),1 and its in-house systematic reviews on the efficacy and adverse events of pharmacological treatments for ADHD.2 3 The guideline recommends methylphenidate as the …
fi. on its own as a surrogate for risk of bias. Certain meth-odological limitations of a study, imprecision, inconsist-ency and indirectness, were factors independent from study design and can affect the quality of evidence derived from any study design. For example, a meta-analysis of RCTs evaluating intensive glycaemic control in non ...
What does expert opinion in guidelines mean? a meta …
Introduction. Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements that intend to assist clinicians and patients in making decisions about appropriate healthcare in specific circumstances.1 2 Empirical evidence shows that adherence to guidelines improves patient outcomes.3–5 One of the essential requirements of a trustworthy guideline2 is that it should be based on systematic ...
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BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine aims to: Publish research, insights and opinions on what matters for health care. Focus on the tools, methods, and concepts that are basic and central to teaching and practising evidence-based medicine (EBM). We deliver relevant, trustworthy and impactful evidence by: Publishing relevant research from primary studies ...