Clinical examination—encompassing both patient interview and physical inspection—has long served as one of the most essential ...

The phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis, the diagnosis of a malignant tumour that, without detection, would never lead to ...

A network meta-analysis combines the evidence from existing randomised trials about the comparative efficacy of multiple treatments. It allows direct and indirect evidence about each comparison to be ...

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Correspondence to Dr Igho J Onakpoya, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; igho.onakpoya{at}phc.ox.ac.uk ...

The existing epidemiological research on long COVID has suffered from overly broad case definitions and a striking absence of control groups, which have led to distortion of risk. The unintended ...

Since WHO declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic,1 2 healthcare systems all over the world have focused their efforts on limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and despite the ceaseless development of ...

Correspondence to Professor Johan Sundström, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala 751 85, Sweden; johan.sundstrom{at}medsci.uu.se When a high-risk person is ...

Correspondence to Cole Wayant, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK 74107, USA; cole.wayant{at}okstate.edu Recent proposals to change the p value threshold from 0.05 to ...

Correspondence to: Professor Murray Skeaff, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; murray.skeaff{at}otago.ac.nz If you wish to reuse any or all of ...