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

Journal clubs, typically involving a group of health professionals or trainees who discuss recent study findings, have long been considered a fundamental element of teaching evidence-based practice.

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 ...

What it is Overdetection refers to the identification of abnormalities that were never going to cause harm, abnormalities that do not progress, that progress too slowly to cause symptoms or harm ...

A systematic review identifies, appraises and synthesises all the empirical evidence from studies that meet prespecified eligibility criteria to answer a specific research question. As part of the ...

Understanding the causes of deaths and how they can be prevented is critical for improving healthcare outcomes. At a population level, over-reporting or under-reporting of deaths can have a profound ...

Registration of health and medical research is an effective way of improving the transparency and credibility of evidence. Registration involves pre-specifying the research objectives, design, methods ...

Fagan's nomogram In 1975, Dr Terrence J. Fagan 3 integrated Bayes’ theorem into a nomogram for practitioners to quantify the post-test probability that an individual is affected by a condition given ...

Objectives Over the last two decades, the incidence of endometrial cancer has risen by 55% whilst its mortality has been stable.1 These trends have raised concerns that the increase in the incidence ...

Commentary on: Callen JL, Westbrook JI, Georgiou A, et al. Failure to follow-up test results for ambulatory patients: a systematic review. J Gen Intern Med 2012; 27: 1334– 48.[OpenUrl][1][CrossRef][2] ...

In addition to reducing patient harms and wasted resources, efforts to reduce low-value care produce significant climate and population health benefits, but these benefits are typically not elucidated ...