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104 ‘Selling ADHD: how the pharmaceutical industry, schools, and parents helped medicalize childhood restlessness — and how we can unsell it’

Conclusions The ADHD epidemic is less about the discovery of a disease and more about the construction of one. Over the past two decades, we have witnessed the normalization of drugging children into ...
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HOSPITAL Score, LACE Index and LACE+ Index as predictors of 30-day readmission in patients with heart failure

Correspondence to Dr Abdisamad M Ibrahim, Internal Medicine, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62781, USA; aibrahim0912{at}gmail.com This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the HOSPITAL ...
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Evaluation of reported claims of sex-based differences in treatment effects across meta-analyses: a meta-research study (19 June, 2025) ...
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Are we ready for AI-augmented generalists?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping medical practice and education by unifying the knowledge of medical specialties and subspecialties into a single, intelligent system. This system functions ...
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Blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions: a retrospective study of published trial reports

Objectives To study the extent of blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions and the interpretative considerations if randomised clinical trials are not blinded. Design ...
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16 Adding capacity: getting EBP into the curriculum for all health professionals in ireland

Objectives Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is a cornerstone of delivering clinically effective care. An EBP capacity-building project commenced in Ireland in 2016, to build capability and leadership for ...
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Stopping smoking in the weeks prior to surgery has no effect on the risk of postoperative complications

Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Nancy A Rigotti Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, ...
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Dear doctor, please know that you do not know until I have told you

Correspondence to Dr Arwen H. Pieterse, Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands; a.h.pieterse{at}lumc.nl True patient involvement in treatment ...
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Review: stretching before or after exercise does not prevent muscle soreness or reduce risk of injury

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be ...
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011 Development and nation-wide implementation of a patient decision aid including real-world outcome information to support shared decision making about treatment for non ...

3 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht/Nieuwegein, The Netherlands 4 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical ...
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Understanding of research results, evidence summaries and their applicability—not critical appraisal—are core skills of medical curriculum

Correspondence to Professor Kari A O Tikkinen, Department of Urology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00290, Finland; kari.tikkinen{at}helsinki.fi To practice high quality healthcare, ...
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6 Global burden of disease 2017 estimates for major depressive disorder: a critical appraisal of the epidemiological evidence

Objectives To critically appraise the quality of the studies underpinning the GBD 2017 estimates for MDD with respect to i) the GBD 2017 inclusion criteria and ii) population coverage. Methods Of 431 ...