BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine: 23 (1)

Editorial

Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t (24 January, 2018) Free
John Brodersen, Lisa M Schwartz, Carl Heneghan, Jack William O’Sullivan, Jeffrey K Aronson, Steven Woloshin

Analysis of conference abstract-to-publication rate in UK orthopaedic research (24 January, 2018)
Thomas Collier, Michelle Roadley-Battin, Chloe Darlow, Philip Chant, Caroline B Hing, Toby O Smith

Interactive visualisation for interpreting diagnostic test accuracy study results (24 January, 2018)
Thomas R Fanshawe, Michael Power, Sara Graziadio, José M Ordóñez-Mena, John Simpson, Joy Allen
External validity, generalisability, applicability and directness: a brief primer (24 January, 2018)
Mohammad H Murad, Abdulrahman Katabi, Raed Benkhadra, Victor M Montori
Catalogue of bias: allocation bias (24 January, 2018)
David Nunan, Carl Heneghan, Elizabeth A Spencer
Catalogue of bias: attrition bias (24 January, 2018)
David Nunan, Jeffrey Aronson, Clare Bankhead
Catalogue of bias: observer bias (24 January, 2018)
Kamal Mahtani, Elizabeth A Spencer, Jon Brassey, Carl Heneghan

Key Concepts for Informed Health Choices: a framework for helping people learn how to assess treatment claims and make informed choices (24 January, 2018) Free
Iain Chalmers, Andrew D Oxman, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Selena Ryan-Vig, Sarah Pannell, Nelson Sewankambo, Daniel Semakula, Allen Nsangi, Loai Albarqouni, Paul Glasziou, Kamal Mahtani, David Nunan, Carl Heneghan, Douglas Badenoch
When is a guideline not a guideline? The devil is in the details (24 January, 2018)
Lisa Cosgrove, Allen F Shaughnessy, Terrence Shaneyfelt

General medicine: High incidence of cervical cancer in women over 60 is likely due to less intensive cervical screening in this generation of women (24 January, 2018)
John Brodersen
General medicine: Trial supports targeted radiotherapy for early breast cancer but protocol still requires 3 weeks of daily therapy (24 January, 2018)
Jayant S Vaidya, Frederik Wenz, Jeffrey S Tobias
General medicine: Low-dose levothyroxine did not improve symptoms in asymptomatic older people with subclinical hypothyroidism (24 January, 2018) Free
Simon H S Pearce, Earn H Gan
General medicine: NSAIDs are superior to paracetamol for osteoarthritic pain and function in a network meta-analysis (24 January, 2018)
Sten Rasmussen
Emergency care: Angiotensin II increases blood pressure in patients with refractory vasodilatory shock (24 January, 2018)
Giovanni Landoni, Alessandro Belletti

Effect size in CANTOS trial (24 January, 2018)
Nanda Gamad, Nusrat Shafiq, Samir Malhotra