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3 days ago · 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 evidence.
New evidence pyramid - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
Rationale for modification 1. In the early 2000s, the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group developed a framework in which the certainty in evidence was based on numerous factors and not solely on study design which challenges the pyramid concept.8 Study design alone appears to be insufficient on its own as a surrogate for risk of bias.
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 ...
Enhancing clinical practice guidelines with STAR
Oct 8, 2024 · Clinical practice guidelines, commonly referred to as ‘guidelines’, play an important role in guiding physicians in their clinical practice by bridging the gap between research evidence and healthcare decisions.1 However, the current guidelines face challenges such as varying quality levels, poor clinical applicability and difficulties in implementation.2 3 To solve the these problems, the ...
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 …
External validity, generalisability, applicability and directness: a ...
External validity is a construct that attempts to answer the question of whether we can use the results of a study in patients other than those enrolled in the study. External validity consists of two unique underlying concepts, generalisability and …
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 …
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 …
Authors - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
When publishing in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, authors choose between three licence types – exclusive licence granted to BMJ, CC-BY-NC and CC-BY (Creative Commons open access licences require payment of an article processing charge).As an author you may wish to post your article in an institutional or subject repository, or on a scientific social sharing network.
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 …