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Update in Hospital Medicine: Practical Lessons from Current Literature

17 Apr, 2019 | 06:24h | UTC

Update in Hospital Medicine: Practical Lessons from Current Literature – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free)

 


Alex Nowbar’s Research Reviews – 15 April 2019

16 Apr, 2019 | 02:31h | UTC

Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 15 April 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

 


Top Studies Relevant to Primary Care from 2018

15 Apr, 2019 | 00:43h | UTC

Top studies relevant to primary care from 2018 – Canadian Family Physician (free)

 


Reforming Disease Definitions: A New Primary Care Led, People-centered Approach

11 Apr, 2019 | 00:42h | UTC

Proposal: Reforming disease definitions: a new primary care led, people-centred approach – BMJ Evidence Based Medicine (free)

Commentary: We need new rules for defining who is sick. Step 1: remove vested interests – The Conversation (free)

 

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Ann Robinson’s research reviews – 9 April 2019

10 Apr, 2019 | 06:05h | UTC

Ann Robinson’s research reviews, 9 April 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 


The Importance of Predefined Rules and Prespecified Statistical Analyses: Do Not Abandon Significance

4 Apr, 2019 | 22:17h | UTC

Viewpoint: The Importance of Predefined Rules and Prespecified Statistical Analyses: Do Not Abandon Significance – JAMA (free)

Original Article: Scientists Rise Up Against Statistical Significance (free)

Related: Retire Statistical Significance? Really? – Unboxing Evidence Based Medicine (free)

 


Opinion – “Highly Profitable Medical Journal Says Open Access Publishing Has Failed. Right.”

3 Apr, 2019 | 00:55h | UTC

Highly Profitable Medical Journal Says Open Access Publishing Has Failed. Right. – Forbes (free)

Original Article: No Free Lunch — What Price Plan S for Scientific Publishing? – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Related: Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? – Science (free) AND The costs of academic publishing are absurd. The University of California is fighting back – VOX (free) AND Ten myths around open scholarly publishing – PeerJ Preprints (free PDF) AND The world debates open-access mandates (free) AND China Backs Bold Plan to Tear Down Journal Paywalls (free) AND Europe’s Bold Open-Access Plan Detailed (free) Groundbreaking deal makes large number of German studies free to public – Science (free) AND Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand – Absolutely Maybe Blog (free)

 


Ann Robinson’s Weekly Research Reviews – 2 April 2019

3 Apr, 2019 | 00:50h | UTC

Ann Robinson’s weekly research reviews, 2 April 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 


Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 26 March 2019

27 Mar, 2019 | 05:53h | UTC

Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 26 March 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 


Perspective: Why You Should Be a “Medical Conservative”

25 Mar, 2019 | 00:43h | UTC

Why you should be a “medical conservative” – Lown Institute (free)

Original Article: Perspective: The Case for Being a Medical Conservative (free article and twitter thread)

“being a medical conservative means being skeptical about new medical advances until unbiased and high-quality evidence shows a clear benefit”

 


Practical Guidance for Patient-Centered Health Research

23 Mar, 2019 | 14:59h | UTC

Practical guidance for patient-centred health research – The Lancet (free)

 


Scientists Rise Up Against Statistical Significance

21 Mar, 2019 | 06:52h | UTC

Scientists rise up against statistical significance – Nature (free)

Editorial: It’s time to talk about ditching statistical significance – Nature (free)

Related: What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science — and how to fix it – VOX (free) AND Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value – Nature News (free) AND ‘One-size-fits-all’ threshold for P values under fire – Nature News (free) AND Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values – Nature News (free) AND Understanding common misconceptions about p-values – The 20% Statistician (free) AND PulmCrit- .050 shades of grey in p-value cutoffs (free) AND Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations – European Journal of Epidemiology(free)

 

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Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Overuse of Health Care Services: Need for Reform

21 Mar, 2019 | 06:57h | UTC

Clinical practice guidelines and the overuse of health care services: need for reform – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free for a limited period)

 

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Study: Levels of Evidence Supporting American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association and European Society of Cardiology Guidelines

20 Mar, 2019 | 02:55h | UTC

Levels of Evidence Supporting American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association and European Society of Cardiology Guidelines, 2008-2018 – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Many Guidelines For Heart Care Rely On Weak Evidence – NPR (free) AND Few heart care recommendations are based on rigorous study – News Medical (free)

 


Christopher Martyn’s research reviews – 18 March 2019

19 Mar, 2019 | 03:02h | UTC

Christopher Martyn’s research reviews, 18 March 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

 


Perspective: The Case for Being a Medical Conservative

15 Mar, 2019 | 02:46h | UTC

The Case for Being a Medical Conservative – The American Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

 

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Ten Myths Around Open Scholarly Publishing

14 Mar, 2019 | 00:38h | UTC

Ten myths around open scholarly publishing – PeerJ Preprints (free PDF)

Related: UC Terminates Subscriptions with World’s Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access (several commentaries on the subject)

 


Guide to Statistics and Methods: Overview of Cost-effectiveness Analysis

12 Mar, 2019 | 02:45h | UTC

Overview of Cost-effectiveness Analysis – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 


Christopher Martyn’s Research Reviews, 11 March 2019

12 Mar, 2019 | 02:42h | UTC

Christopher Martyn’s research reviews, 11 March 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Christopher Martyn reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 


Guidelines and Recommendations for Ensuring Good Epidemiological Practice

6 Mar, 2019 | 20:10h | UTC

Guidelines and recommendations for ensuring Good Epidemiological Practice (GEP): a guideline developed by the German Society for Epidemiology – European Journal of Epidemiology (free)

 


Statistics and Methods: Treatment Effects in Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trials

6 Mar, 2019 | 20:08h | UTC

Guide to Statistics and Methods: Treatment Effects in Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 


Big Pharma is Embracing Open-access Publishing Like Never Before

6 Mar, 2019 | 20:05h | UTC

Big pharma is embracing open-access publishing like never before – Nature News (free)

See also: UC Terminates Subscriptions with World’s Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access (resources and commentaries on the subject)

 


Ann Robinson’s research reviews – 5 March 2019

6 Mar, 2019 | 01:22h | UTC

Ann Robinson’s research reviews, 5 March 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 


UC Terminates Subscriptions with World’s Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access

4 Mar, 2019 | 00:23h | UTC

UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research – University of California (free)

Commentaries: The costs of academic publishing are absurd. The University of California is fighting back – VOX (free) AND University of California breaks up with major publisher over research access dispute – STAT (free)

Related: Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? – Science (free) AND The world debates open-access mandates (free) AND China Backs Bold Plan to Tear Down Journal Paywalls (free) AND Europe’s Bold Open-Access Plan Detailed (free) Groundbreaking deal makes large number of German studies free to public – Science (free) AND Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand – Absolutely Maybe Blog (free)

 


Guidance on Conducting Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses of Observational Studies of Etiology

27 Feb, 2019 | 13:01h | UTC

COSMOS-E: Guidance on conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies of etiology – PLOS Medicine (free)

 


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