Objective This study evaluates whether Taiwan’s national oral cancer screening programme, implemented in 1999, has led to a ...

Healthcare delivery is being transformed by the rapid growth of data, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies. In healthcare, obtaining real-world data can be ...

In 20 years of researching and teaching health risk communication methods, the most common question we get is: how should I communicate this [adverse event risk, survival probability, etc.] so that ...

Changing disease or health risk definitions and labels where there is a case for no or little net benefit and significant harm, has the potential to affect millions of people worldwide. It appears, on ...

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC Assessing risk of bias in the results of included studies of a systematic review is a key step in ensuring our confidence in the review’s findings. A new tool for ...

Objectives To investigate which imaging procedures that are identified as low-value imaging and to provide an overview of how large proportion of these procedures that are considered to be of low ...

Qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based health care (EBHC), contributing to policy on patient safety and quality of care, supporting understanding of the impact of chronic ...

Understanding the causes of deaths and how they can be prevented is critical for improving healthcare outcomes. At a population level, over-reporting or under-reporting of deaths can have a profound ...

Registration of health and medical research is an effective way of improving the transparency and credibility of evidence. Registration involves pre-specifying the research objectives, design, methods ...

In addition to reducing patient harms and wasted resources, efforts to reduce low-value care produce significant climate and population health benefits, but these benefits are typically not elucidated ...

Objectives Over the last two decades, the incidence of endometrial cancer has risen by 55% whilst its mortality has been stable.1 These trends have raised concerns that the increase in the incidence ...