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"We Won't Retire Without Skeletons in the Closet": Healthcare-Related Regrets Among Physicians and Nurses in German-Speaking Swiss Hospitals

scientific article published on 26 June 2018

A Mobile Health Platform to Disseminate Validated Institutional Measurements During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Utilization-Focused Evaluation Study

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

A conceptual framework for patient-directed knowledge tools to support patient-centred care: Results from an evidence-informed consensus meeting

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A framework for practical issues was developed to inform shared decision-making tools and clinical guidelines

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

A guidance was developed to identify participants with missing outcome data in randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 9 July 2019

A guide for health professionals to interpret and use recommendations in guidelines developed with the GRADE approach

scientific article

A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: How to search for evidence to inform clinical decisions

scientific article

A student-initiated, undergraduate, peer teaching skills programme

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Activity-based funding of hospitals and its impact on mortality, readmission, discharge destination, severity of illness, and volume of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Adaptation of trustworthy guidelines developed using the GRADE methodology: a novel five-step process

scientific article published on September 2014

Adherence measurement and patient recruitment methods are poor in intervention trials to improve patient adherence

scientific article published on 30 July 2014

Adjusted Analyses in Studies Addressing Therapy and Harm: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

scientific article

Adjustment Strategies in Studies of Therapy-Reply

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

Adverse effects of remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir when used for COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

publication published on 02 March 2022

Antibiotics after incision and drainage for uncomplicated skin abscesses: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Anticoagulant therapy for acute venous thrombo-embolism in cancer patients: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Antiretroviral therapy in pregnant women living with HIV: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Applying new strategies for the national adaptation, updating, and dissemination of trustworthy guidelines: results from the Norwegian adaptation of the Antithrombotic Therapy and the Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th Ed: American College of Chest Physi

scientific article published in September 2014

Arthroscopic surgery for degenerative knee arthritis and meniscal tears: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article

Arthroscopic surgery for degenerative knee arthritis and meniscal tears: a clinical practice guideline

Atraumatic (pencil-point) versus conventional needles for lumbar puncture: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Authors' reply to Farrar

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Barriers to participation in a patient satisfaction survey: who are we missing?

scientific article

Citation bias favoring statistically significant studies was present in medical research.

scientific article

Collaborative quality improvement to manage pain in acute care hospitals

scientific article

Colorectal cancer screening with faecal immunochemical testing, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 2 October 2019

Consistency of triage scores by presenting complaint pre- and post-implementation of a real-time electronic triage decision support tool

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Corticosteroid therapy for sepsis: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Corticosteroids for sore throat: a clinical practice guideline.

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Corticosteroids for treatment of sore throat: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Corticosteroids in Sepsis: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

scientific article

Corticosteroids in sepsis: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (protocol).

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Creating clinical practice guidelines we can trust, use, and share: a new era is imminent

scientific article published on August 2013

Decision Aids for Prostate Cancer Screening Choice: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Decision aids for localized prostate cancer treatment choice: Systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

Decision aids that really promote shared decision making: the pace quickens

scientific article

Des approches génériques pour l’implication des patients dans les soins

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Development of a Novel, Multilayered Presentation Format for Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Diagnostic accuracy of Augurix COVID-19 IgG serology rapid test

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Discrimination and Calibration of Clinical Prediction Models: Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

scientific article published in October 2017

Do clinicians want recommendations? A multicenter study comparing evidence summaries with and without GRADE recommendations

scientific article published on 09 March 2018

Doctors and patients' susceptibility to framing bias: a randomized trial

scientific article

Does prevalence matter to physicians in estimating post-test probability of disease? A randomized trial

scientific article

Does the patient's inherent rating tendency influence reported satisfaction scores and affect division ranking?

scientific article published on 31 January 2016

Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel for acute high risk transient ischaemic attack and minor ischaemic stroke: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Early experimental COVID-19 therapies: associations with length of hospital stay, mortality and related costs

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Effect of numbering of return envelopes on participation, explicit refusals, and bias: experiment and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Efficacy and safety of gastrointestinal bleeding prophylaxis in critically ill patients: systematic review and network meta-analysis

scientific article published on 6 January 2020

Efficacy of pragmatic same-day ring prophylaxis for adult individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland (COPEP): protocol of an open-label cluster randomised trial

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Establishing thresholds for important benefits considering the harms of screening interventions

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Evidence-based medicine 20 years on: a view from the inside

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

Experiencing regrets in clinical practice

scientific article published in November 2013

GRADE Equity Guidelines 2: Considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: Equity extension of the Guideline Development Checklist

scientific article published on 9 May 2017

GRADE approach to rate the certainty from a network meta-analysis: addressing incoherence

scientific article published on 05 December 2018

Gastrointestinal bleeding prophylaxis for critically ill patients: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 6 January 2020

Guideline conflict of interest management and methodology heavily impacts on the strength of recommendations: comparison between two iterations of the American College of Chest Physicians Antithrombotic Guidelines

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain

scientific article

Handling trial participants with missing outcome data when conducting a meta-analysis: a systematic survey of proposed approaches

scientific article

Head-to-Head Accuracy Comparison of Three Commercial COVID-19 IgM/IgG Serology Rapid Tests

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

HeadToToe: A Mobile Medical Knowledge dissemination platform: strengths, limitations and preliminary usage assessment

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Healthcare-Related Regret among Nurses and Physicians Is Associated with Self-Rated Insomnia Severity: A Cross-Sectional Study

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How do researchers determine the difference to be detected in superiority trials? Results of a survey from a panel of researchers

scientific article

How to read a systematic review and meta-analysis and apply the results to patient care: users' guides to the medical literature

scientific article published on July 2014

How to use a subgroup analysis: users' guide to the medical literature

scientific article published on January 2014

Implantable cardiac defibrillator and mortality in non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy: an updated meta-analysis

scientific article published on 05 August 2017

Including practical issues and patient perspectives in Rapid Recommendations

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Increasing the quantity and quality of searching for current best evidence to answer clinical questions: protocol and intervention design of the MacPLUS FS Factorial Randomized Controlled Trials

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Interventions for enhancing medication adherence

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Interventions for enhancing medication adherence

scientific article (published 2008-04-16)

Introduction to BMJ Rapid Recommendations

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Iron Deficiency in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) for bone healing: a clinical practice guideline

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Low intensity pulsed ultrasound for bone healing: systematic review of randomized controlled trials

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Low-dose computed tomography for the diagnosis of pneumonia in elderly patients: a prospective, interventional cohort study.

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 04 October 2020

Minimal important differences for improvement in shoulder condition patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review to inform a Rapid Recommendation

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Oxygen therapy for acutely ill medical patients: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Pain as an important predictor of psychosocial health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article

Patent foramen ovale closure, antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulation in patients with patent foramen ovale and cryptogenic stroke: a systematic review and network meta-analysis incorporating complementary external evidence

scholarly article by Hassan Mir et al published 25 July 2018 in BMJ Open

Patent foramen ovale closure, antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulation therapy alone for management of cryptogenic stroke? A clinical practice guideline

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Patient enrollment and logistical problems top the list of difficulties in clinical research: a cross-sectional survey

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Patient reports of undesirable events during hospitalization

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Patient values and preferences on transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement therapy for aortic stenosis: a systematic review

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Patient-reported conformity of informed consent procedures and participation in clinical research ⬇️

scientific article published on September 22, 2010

Patients' values and preferences of the expected efficacy of hip arthroscopy for osteoarthritis: a protocol for a multinational structured interview-based study combined with a randomised survey on the optimal amount of information to elicit prefere

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Performance of logistic regression modeling: beyond the number of events per variable, the role of data structure

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Post-test Probability According to Prevalence

scientific article published on 6 July 2011

Prevention of thrombosis among medical inpatients : should we adapt enoxaparin doses to the patient's weight ?

scientific article published in October 2017

Prognosis after surgical replacement with a bioprosthetic aortic valve in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis: systematic review of observational studies

scientific article

Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Raison et sentiments

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Reciprocal relations between care-related emotional burden and sleep problems in healthcare professionals: a multicentre international cohort study

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Regrets associated with providing healthcare: qualitative study of experiences of hospital-based physicians and nurses

scientific article

Remdesivir for severe covid-19: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Reporting missing participant data in randomised trials: systematic survey of the methodological literature and a proposed guide

scientific article

Risk prediction models for mortality in ambulatory patients with heart failure: a systematic review

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

Role of patient preferences in clinical practice guidelines: a multiple methods study using guidelines from oncology as a case

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Self-Rated Health and Sick Leave among Nurses and Physicians: The Role of Regret and Coping Strategies in Difficult Care-Related Situations

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Self-rated health: analysis of distances and transitions between response options.

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Sensitivity and predictive value of 15 PubMed search strategies to answer clinical questions rated against full systematic reviews

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Structural valve deterioration after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

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Study design attributes influenced patients' willingness to participate in clinical research: a randomized vignette-based study

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Subacromial decompression surgery for adults with shoulder pain: a clinical practice guideline

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

The choice of the noninferiority margin in clinical trials was driven by baseline risk, type of primary outcome, and benefits of new treatment

scientific article published on 28 January 2015

The future of colorectal cancer screening: Parentalism or shared decision-making?

scientific article published on 1 May 2020

Thinker, Soldier, Scribe: cross-sectional study of researchers' roles and author order in the Annals of Internal Medicine

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Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis at low and intermediate risk: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Translating Clinical Questions by Physicians Into Searchable Queries: Analytical Survey Study

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Trustworthy guidelines - excellent; customized care tools - even better

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UpToDate adherence to GRADE criteria for strong recommendations: an analytical survey

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Use of brain natriuretic peptide to detect previously unknown left ventricular dysfunction in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 November 2011

Using mHealth to increase the reach of local guidance to health professionals as part of institutional response plan to COVID-19 Outbreak: Usage Analysis Study

scientific article published on 02 August 2020

Validation of a 10-item care-related regret intensity scale (RIS-10) for health care professionals

scientific article published in March 2013

Validation of a 15-item care-related regret coping scale for health-care professionals (RCS-HCP).

scientific article published on 11 September 2014

Validation of a commercially available SARS-CoV-2 serological Immunoassay

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Validation of a commercially available SARS-CoV-2 serological immunoassay

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Values and preferences of men for undergoing prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer: a systematic review

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

What differences are detected by superiority trials or ruled out by noninferiority trials? A cross-sectional study on a random sample of two-hundred two-arms parallel group randomized clinical trials

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What doctors think about the impact of managed care tools on quality of care, costs, autonomy, and relations with patients

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[Contemporary novelties in internal medicine]

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

[Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factors as adjunctive therapy in patients with neutropenic fever]

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

[The BMJ Rapid Recommendations: towards a new model for the production of clinical practice guidelines]

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

[Treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism : an update of the evidence and the new Rapid Recommendations]

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

[« More time for patients » : a reorganization of medical wards at the University Hospitals of Geneva]

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

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