We are living through a health financing emergency, with persistent inflation, anaemic growth and record levels of debt servicing constraining especially poorer country governments’ ability to invest ...

Health technology assessment in India in the next decade: reflections on a vision for its path to maturity and impact ...

Correspondence to Dr Peiming Zhang, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Foshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China; 20202110151{at}stu.gzucm.edu.cn If you ...

Objectives To describe the development and initial evaluation of a brief e-learning course as a means of teaching shared decision making and risk communication skills to clinicians of all specialties.

2 The Spanish Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment and Services of the National Health System (RedETS), Tenerife, Spain 3 Network for Research on Chronicity, Primary Care, and Health ...

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Objective We aimed at providing a systematic overview of randomised trials assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to prevent COVID-19. Design Scoping review. Methods We included all ...

Outcome reporting bias in clinical trials contribute to research waste and threaten the credibility of published research, affecting clinical decisions. This is well documented in the literature, even ...

1 Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 2 Graduated School of Health Sciences (GHS), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 3 Swiss Pharmacists’ Association ...

Objectives While the definition and importance of the phenomenon of overdiagnosis have been increasingly debated, the definition of underdiagnosis has not. This is despite underdiagnosis being less ...

Background The market for directly purchased personal genomic tests (PGTs) has led to their widespread availability. Their ostensible purposes include ancestry testing; educational or career planning; ...

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth T Thomas, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HT, UK; ...