BMJ

Do the associations of daily steps with mortality and incident cardiovascular disease differ by sedentary time levels? A device-based cohort study

4 Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Providencia, Chile 5 Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Escuela de Ciencias de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y la Salud, ...
BMJ

Clinical examination of athletes with groin pain: an intraobserver and interobserver reliability study

Background: Groin pain is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to sports medicine. The literature provides no consensus on definitions of or diagnostic criteria for groin pain in athletes. To ...
BMJ

Health costs of the UK-US trade deal on pharmaceuticals

Samuel Cross, Karl Claxton, and Andrew Hill argue that diversion of billions of NHS funding to pay more for new drugs under the UK-US trade deal will harm public health and result in thousands of ...
BMJ

Australia’s social media ban has not yet disrupted the status quo

As a growing number of countries follow the herd to introduce an Australian-style social media ban, new research published in The BMJ suggests that this may not be the best course.1 The findings ...
ebm.bmj

Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent

Evidence-based medicine (EBM’s) traditional methods, especially randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses, along with risk-of-bias tools and checklists, have contributed significantly to ...
qualitysafety.bmj

Overuse of diagnostic testing in healthcare: a systematic review

Background Overuse of diagnostic testing substantially contributes to healthcare expenses and potentially exposes patients to unnecessary harm. Our objective was to systematically identify and examine ...
BMJ

Psychological factors for the onset of depression: a meta-analysis of prospective studies

Objectives A comprehensive overview of the evidence for factors derived from leading psychological theories of the onset of major depressive disorder (MDD) that underpin psychological interventions is ...
BMJ

Effectiveness of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists for reduction of body mass index and blood glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity: A ...

Objective This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) in reducing body mass index (BMI) and blood glucose levels in individuals with type 2 ...
qualitysafety.bmj

Polypharmacy and continuity of care: medicines optimisation in the era of multidisciplinary teams

Correspondence to Professor Carolyn Tarrant, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK; ccp3{at}le.ac.uk The paper by Swinglehurst and colleagues in this issue of ...
BMJ

Efficacy and safety of upadacitinib for active ankylosing spondylitis refractory to biological therapy: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy and safety of upadacitinib, a Janus kinase inhibitor, in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with an inadequate response (IR) to biological ...
BMJ

Evaluation of the impact of artificial intelligence-assisted image interpretation on the diagnostic performance of clinicians in identifying pneumothoraces on plain chest X-ray ...

Background Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted image interpretation is a fast-developing area of clinical innovation. Most research to date has focused on the performance of AI-assisted algorithms ...
bjo.bmj

METAVISION: a novel system for quantifying metamorphopsia in patients with myopic traction maculopathy

Purpose To develop a novel system for quantifying metamorphopsia in patients with myopic traction maculopathy (MTM) and to explore the metamorphopsia pattern of MTM. Design Observational, ...