BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine: 25 (5)

EBM opinion and debate

Emergency care: Contemporary communication in a clinical trial (12 April, 2019)
Mark M Mikhail, Rebecca Shirley, Abhilash Jain, Justin Conrad Rosen Wormald
General Medicine: Should oral iron be dismissed in patients with heart failure? (10 July, 2019)
Miguel Angel De Las Nieves
What to do with a clinical trial with conflicts of interest (10 July, 2019) Free
Andreas Lundh, Isabelle Boutron, Lesley Stewart, Asbjorn Hróbjartsson

Primary care: HOSPITAL Score, LACE Index and LACE+ Index as predictors of 30-day readmission in patients with heart failure (26 November, 2019)
Abdisamad M Ibrahim, Cameron Koester, Mohammad Al-Akchar, Nitin Tandan, Manjari Regmi, Mukul Bhattarai, Basma Al-Bast, Abhishek Kulkarni, Robert Robinson
Emergency care: Thrombolysis with alteplase 3–4.5 hours after acute ischaemic stroke: trial reanalysis adjusted for baseline imbalances (19 May, 2020)
Brian Scott Alper, Gary Foster, Lehana Thabane, Alex Rae-Grant, Meghan Malone-Moses, Eric Manheimer

Mental health: Evaluation of spin in abstracts of papers in psychiatry and psychology journals (5 August, 2019)
Samuel Jellison, Will Roberts, Aaron Bowers, Tyler Combs, Jason Beaman, Cole Wayant, Matt Vassar

Primary care: C reactive protein testing to guide antibiotic therapy for COPD exacerbations (19 November, 2019)
Annette Pluddemann
Performing baseline testing in cluster randomised controlled trials (3 December, 2019)
Ushma Galal, Thomas R Fanshawe
General Medicine: Extending anticoagulation treatment for unprovoked venous thromboembolism (26 November, 2019)
Carl Heneghan, Jeffrey Aronson
Emergency care: Age is the most important clinical feature to help rule out cardiac syncope (5 November, 2019)
Jack O'Sullivan
General Medicine: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in dialysis patients (5 November, 2019)
Mark T Mills