Objectives To describe the proportion of transvaginal ultrasounds performed in a University Hospital of Buenos Aires (Argentina), requested upon a health check. Method Cross-sectional study of a ...

Correspondence to Georgia C Richards, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; georgia.richards{at}kellogg.ox.ac.uk ...

Measuring progress in institutionalising evidence-informed priority-setting in the Indian healthcare system: an application using the iProSE scale ...

Correspondence to Professor Torstein Vik, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim 7491, Norway; torstein.vik{at}ntnu.no All ...

Correspondence to Dr E H Morreim, Internal Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Memphis, Memphis, TN 38103, USA; hmorreim{at}uthsc.edu To advance healthcare ...

Introduction Current forms of peer review are characterized by scrutinization of research evidence and grant applications by experts within the same field. Despite the homogeneity in reviewers' fields ...

Introduction Decisions about the management of Antithrombotic Therapy (ATT) for patients with advanced cancer towards the end-of-life are complex with a lack of evidence about optimal management.

Objectives Most breast screening programs worldwide have replaced screen-film mammography (SFM) with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) in expectation of technical, clinical and economic advantages ...

The phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis, the diagnosis of a malignant tumour that, without detection, would never lead to adverse health effects, has been reported for several cancer types in different ...

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Background Health technology assessment (HTA) is a valuable tool for informing the efficient allocation of resources in healthcare. However, the resource-intensive nature of HTA can limit its ...

The increasing use of statistical modelling and lower certainty evidence to expand screening and the aggressive marketing of multicancer early detection tests raises questions about evidence ...