Dr Luijendijk1 has identified an elephant in the evidence-based medicine (EBM) classroom: patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO acronym) for the formulation of clinical questions, teaching ...

Correspondence to: Professor Pierre Pluye Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3S 1Z1; pierre.pluye{at}mcgill.ca The present letter is to thank Drs Shaw, Larkin ...

Correspondence to Dr Claudia Caroline Dobler, Evidence-Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN 55905, USA; dobler.claudia{at}mayo.edu The uptake of new evidence in healthcare relies on ...

Objectives To evaluate the performance of large language models (LLMs) in risk of bias assessment and to examine whether prompt engineering improves their accuracy and alignment with expert reasoning.

Background In people with mild asthma poor adherence to regular therapy is common and increases the risk of exacerbations, morbidity and mortality. The use of fixed-dose combination inhalers ...

Introduction The pivotal role played by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners (ATSIHW&P) in facilitating Shared Decision-Making (SDM) with patients, ...

Correspondence to Dr Abdisamad M Ibrahim, Internal Medicine, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62781, USA; aibrahim0912{at}gmail.com This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the HOSPITAL ...

Women’s health has been chronically under-funded and under-researched, meaning large knowledge gaps exist. In the absence of evidence, interpretations of what is ‘normal’ are often shaped by ...

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Introduction High-quality shared decision making(SDM) is a policy and patient priority for modern healthcare systems. Optimal ways to achieve organisation-wide, sustained improvements in SDM processes ...

Ethnicity data are essential in understanding how different groups are impacted by different treatments/healthcare interventions, but more work is needed in how these data should be collected, handled ...