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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 …
Data extraction is the process of a systematic review that occurs between identifying eligible studies and analysing the data, whether it can be a qualitative synthesis or a quantitative synthesis involving the pooling of data in a meta-analysis. The aims of data extraction are to obtain information about the included studies in terms of the characteristics of each study and its population and ...
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 …
Responsible dissemination of health and medical research: some …
Dissemination has been defined as ‘the targeted distribution of information and intervention materials to a specific public health or clinical practice audience’,1 and as being ‘simply about getting the findings of your research to the people who can make use of them, to maximise the benefit of the research without delay’.2 Ethics guidelines concur that …
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 …
Global considerations for informed consent with shared decision …
Shared decision-making (SDM) is increasingly recognised as fundamental to patient-centred care and enabling patients to make voluntary, informed decisions about their health.1 SDM is the process whereby patients and clinicians come together to share their expertise. The patient acts as an expert of themselves, understanding their own preferences and their attitudes to risk. The clinician is an ...
Evidence-based practice education for healthcare professions: an …
Introduction. To highlight and advance clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice (EBP) agendas, the Institute of Medicine set a goal that by 2020, 90% of clinical decisions will be supported by accurate, timely and up-to-date clinical information and will reflect the best available evidence to achieve the best patient outcomes.1 To ensure that …
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 ...