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Archivio > News 2001

  Page last update: 08/01/2008

• JAMA, 19 dicembre

  • When Is It Cost-effective to Change the Behavior of Health Professionals?

  • Biomedical Journals Ponder the Failures and Remedies of Peer Review

• BMJ, 15 dicembre

  • What are the effects of the fifth revision of the Declaration of Helsinki?

26 novembre - 9 dicembre

• BMJ, 8 dicembre

  • Infopoints: IER - an educational resource for health informatics in general practice

  • Quality improvement report: Effect on rates of breast feeding of training for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative

• Ann Intern Med, 4 dicembre 

  • Reported Methodologic Quality and Discrepancies between Large and Small Randomized Trials in Meta-Analyses

• Effective Health Care, Acupuncture

• Bandolier, dicembre 2001

• BMJ, 1 dicembre

  • Quality improvement report: Information given to patients before appointments and its effect on non-attendance rate

  • NICE: faster access to modern treatments? Analysis of guidance on health technologies

• Lancet 1 dicembre

  • Industry-sponsored clinical research: a double-edged sword 

• N Engl J Med, 29 novembre

  • Shattuck Lecture: Hidden Barriers to Improvement in the Quality of Care

• Report della Conferenza: L'Integrità della Ricerca Biomedica nell'Era dell'Evidence-based Health Care

  • Il Sole 24 Ore Sanità

  • Newsletter Va' Pensiero

• Arch Intern Med, 26 novembre

  • The Impact of Practice Guidelines in the Management of Barrett Esophagus. A National Prospective Cohort Study of Physicians

12 - 25 novembre 2001

• J Am Board Fam Pract

  • Evidence-Based Advertising? A Survey of Four Major Journals

• BMJ, 24 novembre 2001

  • Quality improvement report: A laboratory based intervention to improve appropriateness of lipid tests and audit cholesterol lowering in primary care

  • Evidence based paediatrics: Evidence based management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  • Are randomised controlled trials in the BMJ different?

• Lancet, 24 novembre 2001

  • How informed is consent?  

  • Quality of informed consent in cancer clinical trials: a cross-sectional survey

  • Examining informed consent to cancer clinical trials

• Therapeutics Letter 42

  • Serious Adverse Event Analysis: Lipid-Lowering Therapy Revisited

• Effective Health Care, 1-2001

  • Effectiveness of laxatives in adults

• Lancet, 21 novembre

  • Appropriateness ratings: overuse, underuse, or misuse?

• Ann Intern Med, 20 novembre

  • Identifying, Appraising, and Implementing Medical Education Curricula: A Guide for Medical Educators

• BMJ, 17 novembre

  • Evidence based paediatrics: Evidence based management of nocturnal enuresis

• CMAJ, 13 novembre

  • Intention-to-treat principle

5 - 11 novembre 2001

• Occhio Clinico, ottobre 2001

  • Morire per colpa della prevenzione

• BMJ, 10 novembre

  • The agonies of evidence

  • Impact of Effective Health Care bulletin on treatment of persistent glue ear in children: time series analysis

  • Why general practitioners do not implement evidence: qualitative study

  • Evidence based paediatrics: Evidence based management of seizures associated with fever

  • Quality improvement report: Effect of a formal education programme on safety of transfusions

  • Navigating across medicine's electronic landscape, stopping at places with Pub or Central in their names

  • Statistics Notes: Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements

29 ottobre - 4 novembre 2001

• Bandolier, novembre 2001

• Screening carcinoma mammario: Cochrane review vs Lancet review

• CMAJ, 30 ottobre

  • Why randomized controlled trials fail but needn't: 2. Failure to employ physiological statistics, or the only formula a clinician-trialist is ever likely to need (or understand!)

  • How well is the clinical importance of study results reported? An assessment of randomized controlled trials

22-28 ottobre 2001

• Arch Intern Med, 22 ottobre

  • Rigorous new approach to constructing a gold standard for validating new diagnostic criteria, as exemplified by the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome

• BMJ, 20 ottobre

  • Evidence based paediatrics. 2. Evidence based management of childhood obesity

  • Using high quality clinical databases to complement the results of randomised controlled trials: the case of recombinant human activated protein C

• Lancet, 20 ottobre

  • Cochrane review on screening for breast cancer with mammography

  • Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic tests

8-21 ottobre 2001

• CMAJ, 16 ottobre

  • The modern scientific physician: 5. The useful property of an intervention

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• Ann Intern Med, 16 ottobre

  • Disease prediction models aim to guide medical decision making

• BMJ, 13 ottobre

  • Revisiting the Cochrane Collaboration

  • Quality of Cochrane reviews: assessment of sample from 1998

  • Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Acute asthma

  • Evidence based paediatrics 1.Evidence based well child care

• Therapeutics Letter 41 

  • Direct Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Pregnancy: Rapid answers using the Cochrane Library

• Lancet, 13 ottobre

  • Economics of drug treatment: for which patients is it cost-effective to lower cholesterol?

• BMJ, 6 ottobre

  • Equity versus efficiency: a dilemma for the NHS

  • Qualitative research in systematic reviews

• Lancet, 6 ottobre

  • Importance of perspective in economic analyses of cancer screening decisions

24 settembre - 1 ottobre 2001

• JAMA, 3 ottobre 

  • The Rational Clinical Examination. Does This Patient Have a Torn Meniscus or Ligament of the Knee?

• Bandolier, ottobre 2001

• Ministero della Salute - Dipartimento per la Valutazione dei Medicinali e la Farmacovigilanza

  • Note CUF ed EBM

• BMJ, 29 settembre

  • Wrong SIGN, NICE mess: is national guidance distorting allocation of resources?

• JAMA, 26 settembre

  • Validity of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clinical Practice Guidelines How Quickly Do Guidelines Become Outdated?

  • Development and Aftercare of Clinical Guidelines. The Balance Between Rigor and Pragmatism

10 - 23 settembre 2001

• Lancet, 22 settembre

  • Introduction to health economics for physicians

• BMJ, 22 settembre

  • The need for caution in interpreting high quality systematic reviews

• N Engl J Med, 20 settembre

  • Withholding Proven Treatment in Clinical Research

  • The Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Trials -- A Middle Ground

• Lancet, 15 settembre

  • Recruitment of women to clinical trials  

• BMJ, 15 settembre

  • Quality Improvement Report: Linking guideline to regular feedback to increase appropriate requests for clinical tests: blood gas analysis in intensive care
    

• JAMA, 12 settembre

  • How Do Observational Studies Expand the Evidence Base for Therapy?
    

• N Engl J Med, 13 settembre

  • Sponsorship, Authorship, and Accountability

• Arch Intern Med, 10 settembre

  • Practice guidelines: useful and "participative" method? Survey of Italian physicians by professional setting

20 agosto - 9 settembre 2001

• Bandolier, settembre 2001

• BMJ, 25 agosto

  • Monitoring clinical trials - interim data should be publicly available

  • Statistic Notes. Concealing treatment allocation in randomised trials

• Ann Intern Med, 21 agosto

  • The Cochrane Collaboration

6-19 agosto 2001

• Lancet, 18 agosto

  • Decision analysis in patient care
    

• JAMA, 15 agosto

  • Comparison of Evidence of Treatment Effects in Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies
    

• BMJ, 11 agosto

  • The Campbell Collaboration

  • A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines
    

• Lancet, 11 agosto

  • Qualitative research series. 2. Qualitative Research: standards, challenges, and guidelines
    

• JAMA, 8 agosto

  • Representation of Elderly Persons and Women in Published Randomized Trials of Acute Coronary Syndromes

30 luglio, 5 agosto 2001

• Bandolier, agosto 2001

• BMJ, 4 agosto

  • Declaring financial competing interests: survey of five general medical journals

  • Evidence based policy: proceed with care • Commentary: research must be taken seriously

• Lancet, 4 agosto

  • Monitoring of large randomised clinical trials: a new approach with Bayesian methods

  • Qualitative Research Series. 1. The art and science of clinical knowledge: evidence beyond measures and numbers

23 - 29 luglio 2001

• BMJ, 28 luglio

  • Systematic reviews in health care. 4. Systematic reviews of evaluations of prognostic variables
    
    

• CMAJ, 24 luglio 2001

  • What is the quality of drug therapy clinical practice guidelines in Canada?

  • Further disquiet on the guidelines front

16 - 22 luglio 2001

• BMJ, 21 luglio

  • Evidence based case report: Assessing developmental delay

  • When should clinical guidelines be updated?

  • Systematic reviews in health care. 3  Systematic reviews of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests

  • Using clinical evidence (letters)
    
    

• JAMA, 18 luglio

  • Relationship Between Methodological Trial Quality and the Effects of Selective Digestive Decontamination on Pneumonia and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

  • The Rational of Clinical Examination. Does This Patient Have Clubbing?
    
    

• Ann Intern Med, 18 luglio

  • Adjustments for Center in Multicenter Studies: An Overview

9 - 15 luglio 2001

• ACP Journal Club, luglio-agosto 2001
  

• BMJ, 14 luglio

  • Primary care groups. 5.Can primary care groups and trusts improve health?

  • Systematic reviews in health care: 2. Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis

2 - 8 luglio 2001

• Bandolier, luglio 2001

• Ricerca e Pratica, marzo-aprile 2001

• Esperti di Evidenze?

• Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore

• Speciale EBM

• Santoro E. Guida alla medicina in rete

• BMJ, 7 luglio

• Systematic reviews in health care: 1. Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials

• Lancet, 7 luglio

• Adjusting Europe's drug regulation to public health needs

25 giugno - 1 luglio 2001

• Western Journal of Medicine

• Treating the patient or the population? Part 1. Judging benefit of treatment of individual patients

• BMJ, 30 giugno

• Improving the quality of care through clinical governance

• Summarising economic evaluations in systematic reviews: a new approach

• Is it time for evidence based medical registration?

• Therapeutics Letter 40, March / April 2001

• Direct To Consumer Advertising: Finasteride for male pattern hair loss

4 - 24 giugno 2001

• Bandolier, giugno 2001

• Med J Aust, 18 giugno

• EBM in healthcare: management and policy

• Truth in clinical research trials involving pharmaceutical sponsorship

• BMC Med Res Methodol

• Reporting of conflicts of interest in guidelines of preventive and therapeutic interventions

• BMJ, 9 giugno

• The new NHS information technology strategy

• A survey of validity and utility of electronic patient records in a general practice

• Implementing clinical governance: turning vision into reality

• Measuring quality of life 4: Who should measure quality of life?

• Lancet, 9 giugno

• Review of clinical protocols at The Lancet

28 maggio - 3 giugno 2001

• Lancet, 2 giugno

• How consumers can and should improve clinical trials

• Bringing it all together: Lancet-Cochrane collaborate on systematic reviews

• BMJ, 2 giugno

• Better standards for better reporting of RCTs

• Measuring quality of life. 3. Are quality of life measures patient centred?

• Am Fam Physician, 1 giugno

• Helping Physicians Make Evidence-Based Decisions

• CMAJ, 29 maggio

• Reviewing the reviewers: the quality of reporting in three secondary journals

• Reports of reports: How good are secondary publications in medicine?

• Arch Intern Med, 28 maggio

• The Effect of Explicit Financial Incentives on Physician Behavior

21 - 27  maggio 2001

• Lancet, 26 maggio

• World Health Report 2000: a step towards evidence-based health policy

• BMJ, 26 maggio

• Implementing national guidelines at local level

• Measuring quality of life. 2.Using quality of life measures in the clinical setting

• How policy informs the evidence (letters)

• N Engl J Med, 24 maggio

• Is the Placebo Powerless? An Analysis of Clinical Trials Comparing Placebo with No Treatment

• The Powerful Placebo and the Wizard of Oz

• JAMA, 23-30 maggio

• Health Information on the Internet Accessibility, Quality, and Readability in English and Spanish

7 - 20  maggio 2001

• BMJ, 19 maggio

• Measuring quality of life 1. Is quality of life determined by expectations or experience?

• Evidence based management of hypertension. 5. What to do when blood pressure is difficult to control

• An ethical dilemma: Medical errors and medical culture • An error of omission • Commentary: Learning to love mistakes • Commentary: Doctors are obliged to be honest with their patients • Commentary: A climate of secrecy undermines public trust

• ACP Journal Club, maggio-giugno 2001

• JAMA, 16 maggio 2001

• The Rational of Clinical Examination: Is This Patient Allergic to Penicillin?An Evidence-Based Analysis of the Likelihood of Penicillin Allergy

• Bandolier, May 2001

• Arch Intern Med, 14 maggio 2001

• An Evidence-Based Assessment of Federal Guidelines for Overweight and Obesity as They Apply to Elderly Persons




• BMJ, 12 maggio

• Spare a thought for editors

• Evidence based management of hypertension. 4. Using cardiovascular risk profiles to individualise hypertensive treatment

• Letters: Sifting the evidence

30 aprile - 6 maggio 2001

• Lancet, 5 maggio

• Effect of audit and feedback, and reminder messages on primary-care radiology referrals: a randomised trial

• BMJ, 5 maggio

• Evidence based management of hypertension. 3. What are the elements of good treatment for hypertension?

• Checklists for improving rigour in qualitative research: a case of the tail wagging the dog?

• CMAJ, 1 maggio

• PubMed: bridging the information gap

23 -29 aprile 2001

• NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

• CRD's Guidance for those Carrying Out or Commissioning Reviews. CRD Report Number 4 (2nd Edition). March 2001

• Lancet, 28 aprile

• Improving interpretation of clinical studies by use of confidence levels, clinical significance curves, and risk-benefit contours

• BMJ, 28 aprile

• Evidence based case report: Advice about mammography for a young woman with a family history of breast cancer

• Arch Intern Med, 23 aprile

• Drug-Related Adverse Events A Readers' Guide to Assessing Literature Reviews and Meta-analyses

16 - 22 aprile 2001

• BMJ, 21 aprile

• Effectiveness, efficiency, and NICE

• Evidence based management of hypertension. 2. Cardiovascular risk factors and their effects on the decision to treat hypertension: evidence based review

• Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Hip fracture

• Interpreting the results of secondary end points and subgroup analyses in clinical trials: should we lock the crazy aunt in the attic?

• BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20 aprile

• The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trials

• JAMA, 18 aprile

• The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials

• Use of the CONSORT statement and quality of reports of randomized trials: a comparative before-and-after evaluation

• Value of flow diagrams in reports of randomized controlled trials

• Physician Interpretations and Textbook Definitions of Blinding Terminology in Randomized Controlled Trials

• CONSORT revised--improving the reporting of randomized trials

• Ann Intern Med, 17 aprile

• The CONSORT Statement: Revised Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Reports of Parallel-Group Randomized Trials

• The Revised CONSORT Statement for Reporting Randomized Trials: Explanation and Elaboration

• Clinical Librarianship: Its Value in Medical Care

• CMAJ, 17 aprile

• The revised CONSORT statement: honing the cutting edge of the randomized controlled trial

• Problems for clinical judgement: 3. Thinking clearly in an emergency

• The Manitoba Cataract Waiting List Program

19 marzo - 15 aprile 2001

• Lancet, 14 aprile

• The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials

• Competition for academic promotion in Italy

• BMJ, 14 aprile

• Any casualties in the clash of randomised and observational evidence?

• Evidence based treatment of hypertension. 1.Measurement of blood presssure: an evidence based review

• Call for a new approach to the process of clinical trials and drug registration

• Arch Intern Med, 9 aprile

  • Moving from compliance to conscience: why we can and should improve on the ethics of clinical research

• Lancet, 7 aprile 2001

• Levels and kinds of evidence for public-health nutrition

• Bandolier, aprile 2001

• Lancet, 31 marzo

• Clinical reality of coronary prevention guidelines: a comparison of  EUROASPIRE I and II in nine countries

12 - 18 marzo 2001

• NHS Centre for Review and Dissemination

• Effective Health Care, numero 6-2001

• Informing, communicating and sharing decisions with people who have cancer

• Effectiveness Matters

• Accessing the Evidence on Clinical Effectiveness

• BMJ, 17 marzo

• Electronic publishing in science

• Patient choice modules for summaries of clinical effectiveness: a proposal

5 - 11 marzo 2001

• Ricerca e Sanità numero 4 - Il GIMBE collabora alla sezione Evidence-based Medicine

• La polmonite dell'ingegnere e i problemi del medico generalista

• BMJ, 10 marzo

• Societal responsibilities of clinical trial sponsors

• Premature discontinuation of clinical trial for reasons not related to efficacy, safety, or feasibility • Commentary: Early discontinuation violates Helsinki principles

• Recent advances: International perspectives on health inequalities and policy

• Lancet, 10 marzo

• Influence of context effects on health outcomes: a systematic review

• Examination of context of medicine

• Help by and for medical editors

• The World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) An Agenda for the Future

• Communication and information technology in medical education

• ACP Journal Club, marzo-aprile 2001

• Bandolier, marzo 2001

• JAMA, 7 marzo

• Monitoring and Ensuring Safety During Clinical Research

• Scientific and Ethical Issues in Equivalence Trials

• CMAJ, 6 marzo

• Double trouble: impact of inappropriate use of asthma medication on the use of health care resources

• Guidelines as rationing tools: a qualitative analysis of psychosocial patient selection criteria for cardiac procedures

• Guidelines do matter

• Psychosocial patient selection criteria in clinical practice guidelines: An ethical basis for rationing?

12 febbraio - 4 marzo 2001

• BMJ, 3 marzo

• Using clinical evidence

• Involving consumers in designing, conducting, and interpreting randomised controlled trials: questionnaire survey

• Just in time information for clinicians: a questionnaire evaluation of the ATTRACT project

• Tempo Medico - Zadig, lanciano un Forum sull'Evidence-based Medicine

• ACP Journal Club, gennaio-febbraio 2001

• Ann Intern Med, 20 febbraio

• In Defense of Case Reports and Case Series

• Task Force Readying First Wave of New Prevention Guidelines

• Praticaclinica.it, "per fornire a medici, dirigenti e operatori della Sanità, un'opportunità conoscitiva in più relativamente alle principali problematiche  mediche di ordine metodologico".

5 - 11 febbraio 2001

• Lancet 10 febbraio

• Reliable assessment of the effects of treatment on mortality and major morbidity. II: Observational studies

• BMJ, 10 febbraio

• Contamination in trials: is cluster randomisation the answer?

29 gennaio - 4 febbraio 2001

• Therapeutics Letter 39:

• Selective COX-2 inhibitors: Are they safer NSAIDs?

• Effective Health Care, 5-2000

• Acute and chronic low back pain

• Lancet, 3 febbraio

• Reliable assessment of the effects of treatment on mortality and major morbidity, I: clinical trials

15 - 28 gennaio 2001

• BMJ, 27 gennaio

• How policy informs the evidence

• Using evidence to inform health policy: case study

• Sifting the evidence - what's wrong with significance tests?

• CMAJ, 23 gennaio

• Evidence-based medicine in the Palm of your hand

• Ann Intern Med, 16 gennaio

• Breaking the Camel's Back: Multicenter Clinical Trials and Local Institutional Review Boards

• Institutional Review Boards: A Crisis in Confidence

• Reporting Standards and the Transparency of Trials

8 - 14 gennaio 2001

• BMJ, 13 gennaio

• Petticrew M. Systematic reviews from astronomy to zoology: myths and misconceptions

• Arch Intern Med, 8 gennaio

• Critical Appraisal of Clinical Practice Guidelines Targeting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [abstract]

1 - 7 gennaio 2001

• BMJ, 6 gennaio

• PubMed Central: creating an Aladdin's cave of ideas

• Computer assisted learning in undergraduate medical education

• Bandolier, gennaio 2001

• Ann Intern Med, 2 gennaio

• Authors, Editors, and Readers in the Brave New (Electronic) World