BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

Article	Citations
Biomarkers and outcomes of COVID-19 hospitalisations: systematic review and meta-analysis	374
COVID-19 and the US response: accelerating health inequities	126
Is there a smoker’s paradox in COVID-19?	85
Inactivated trivalent influenza vaccination is associated with lower mortality among patients with COVID-19 in Brazil	83
Effectiveness of tests to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus, and antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, to inform COVID-19 diagnosis: a rapid systematic review	58
Framework for the synthesis of non-randomised studies and randomised controlled trials: a guidance on conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis for healthcare decision making	48
Effectiveness of honey for symptomatic relief in upper respiratory tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis	47
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) as proof of treatment efficacy	42
Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent	41
Asthma and COVID-19: review of evidence on risks and management considerations	37
Maternal caffeine consumption and pregnancy outcomes: a narrative review with implications for advice to mothers and mothers-to-be	36
Summarising good practice guidelines for data extraction for systematic reviews and meta-analysis	33
Blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions: a retrospective study of published trial reports	33
Transparency of COVID-19 vaccine trials: decisions without data	31
Misleading clinical evidence and systematic reviews on ivermectin for COVID-19	31
Characteristics, quality and volume of the first 5 months of the COVID-19 evidence synthesis infodemic: a meta-research study	29
Estimates of the minimal important difference to evaluate the clinical significance of antidepressants in the acute treatment of moderate-to-severe depression	27
Thrombolysis with alteplase 3–4.5 hours after acute ischaemic stroke: trial reanalysis adjusted for baseline imbalances	21
Postmarketing studies: can they provide a safety net for COVID-19 vaccines in the UK?	21
Making care fit manifesto	21
Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a scoping review	20
Sacubitril, valsartan and SARS-CoV-2	20
Factors influencing estimated effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in non-randomised studies	20
Understanding of research results, evidence summaries and their applicability—not critical appraisal—are core skills of medical curriculum	20
Diagnostic accuracy of rapid point-of-care tests for diagnosis of current SARS-CoV-2 infections in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19

Dietary Recommendations for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: an Evidence-Free Zone	19
COVID-19 and metabolic syndrome: could diet be the key?	19
Teaching clinicians shared decision making and risk communication online: an evaluation study	19
How to create PICO questions about diagnostic tests	19
The limits of shared decision making	18
Deaths attributed to the use of medications purchased online	18
Shared decision-making as a method of care	18
Good or best practice statements: proposal for the operationalisation and implementation of GRADE guidance	17
Building capacity: getting evidence-based practice into healthcare professional curricula	17
Alcohol-based hand sanitisers: a warning to mitigate future poisonings and deaths	16
Theory and practice of Bayesian and frequentist frameworks for network meta-analysis	15
Evidence-based medicine and machine learning: a partnership with a common purpose	14
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on literature search	14
Using Risk of Bias 2 to assess results from randomised controlled trials: guidance from Cochrane	14
Using individual participant data to improve network meta-analysis projects	13
Combination fixed-dose β agonist and steroid inhaler as required for adults or children with mild asthma: a Cochrane systematic review	13
Ten years later: a review of the US 2009 institute of medicine report on conflicts of interest and solutions for further reform	12
Diclofenac in adolescents: diagnosing and treating gastrointestinal adverse drug reactions can prevent future deaths	12
Risperidone and aripiprazole for autism spectrum disorder in children: an overview of systematic reviews	12
Intervention reporting of clinical trials published in high-impact cardiology journals: effect of the TIDieR checklist and guide	12
Coroners’ concerns to prevent harms: a series of coroners’ case reports to serve patient safety and educate the public, clinicians and policy-makers	12
Breast density notification: evidence on whether benefit outweighs harm is required to inform future screening practice	11
Data-dredging bias	11
How to humanise the COVID-19 intensive care units	10
'Is there racism in academic medical publishing?’	10
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on team considerations, study selection, data extraction and risk of bias assessment	10
Economic evaluation of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) versus vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Using claims in the media to teach essential concepts for evidence-based healthcare	9
Analysis of reports of unintended pregnancies associated with the combined use of non-enzyme-inducing antibiotics and hormonal contraceptives	9
How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID	9
Rapid access to innovative medicinal products while ensuring relevant health technology assessment. Position of the French National Authority for Health	9
Quality of early evidence on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of COVID-19	9
Can shared decision making address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?	9
Catalogue of bias: selective outcome reporting bias	8
Optimising the process for conducting scoping reviews	8
Replacing PICO in non-interventional studies	8
Emollients and smoking: a fire hazard that could be prevented to reduce future deaths	8
Should COVID-19 vaccination be mandatory?	8
Delays in publishing systematic review registrations in PROSPERO are hindering transparency and may lead to research waste	8
Methylphenidate for ADHD rejected from the WHO Essential Medicines List due to uncertainties in benefit-harm profile	8
Assessing the magnitude of reporting bias in trials of homeopathy: a cross-sectional study and meta-analysis	8
Hit or miss: the new cholesterol targets	8
Interventions for Menière’s disease: an umbrella systematic review	8
Tramadol: repeated prescriptions and repeated warnings	8
Component network meta-analysis in a nutshell	8
Rapid Reviews Methods Series: Involving patient and public partners, healthcare providers and policymakers as knowledge users	8
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on assessing the certainty of evidence	7
School closures during COVID-19: an overview of systematic reviews	7
Correlation between the use of statins and COVID-19: what do we know?	7
Preventable deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in England and Wales: a systematic case series of coroners’ reports during the COVID-19 pandemic	7

Registration of health and medical research	7
Adjuvant-containing control arms in pivotal quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine trials: restoration of previously unpublished methodology	7
Items for consideration in a reporting guideline for mediation analyses: a Delphi study	7
Information and rational decision-making: explanations to patients and citizens about personal risk of COVID-19	6
Temperature and COVID-19: India	6
Evaluation of the completeness of intervention reporting in Cochrane surgical systematic reviews using the TIDieR-SR checklist: a cross-sectional study	6
How should we manage hip fracture patients on direct oral anticoagulants?	6
Barriers to reporting guideline adherence in point-of-care ultrasound research: a cross-sectional survey of authors and journal editors	6
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series on social media (part 1): how to interpret healthcare information available on platforms	6
Risks of infection, hospital and ICU admission, and death from COVID-19 in people with asthma: systematic review and meta-analyses	6
Which actionable statements qualify as good practice statements In Covid-19 guidelines? A systematic appraisal	6
Blinding practices during acute point-of-care ultrasound research: the BLIND-US meta-research study	6
Publication by association: how the COVID-19 pandemic has shown relationships between authors and editorial board members in the field of infectious diseases	5
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series on social media (part 2): how to appraise studies using data from platforms	5
Development of literature search strategies for evidence syntheses: pros and cons of incorporating text mining tools and objective approaches	5
Association of study design features and treatment effects in trials of chronic medical conditions: a meta-epidemiological study	5
Guest authorship as research misconduct: definitions and possible solutions	5
Consistency between trials presented at conferences, their subsequent publications and press releases	5
Problem with patient decision aids	5
Thresholds for interpreting the fragility index derived from sample of randomised controlled trials in cardiology: a meta-epidemiologic study	5
Evidence synthesis workshops: moving from face-to-face to online learning	5
Controlled comparison of a flipped classroom evidence-based practice course delivered online or on-campus	4
Effect of spin in the abstract of a randomised controlled trial on physiotherapists’ perception of treatment benefit: a randomised controlled trial	4
Swallowing outcomes in dysphagia interventions in Parkinson’s disease: a scoping review	4
Combining and converting groups when extracting data for meta-analysis	4
Consensus on evidence-based medicine curriculum contents for healthcare schools in Brazil	4
An evidence map of randomised controlled trials evaluating genetic therapies	4
‘Diagnostic downshift’: clinical and system consequences of extrapolating secondary care testing tactics to primary care	4
Pragmatic and open science-based solution to a current problem in the reporting of living systematic reviews	4
Investigation into financial conflicts of interest and screening for atrial fibrillation in the UK: a cross-sectional study	4
Accreditation drives teaching: evidence-based medicine and medical education standards	4
Big data registries in spine surgery research: the lurking dangers	4
GRADEing quality of evidence and its importance in evidence-based practice	4
Face-to-face versus online clinically integrated EBM teaching in an undergraduate medical school: a pilot study	4
Transparency of results reporting for depression treatment studies in ClinicalTrials.gov: a cross-sectional study	3
Evidence-based medicine has already adapted and is very much alive	3
Efficacy of reminders for increasing volunteer engagement in translating Cochrane plain language summaries: a pilot randomised controlled trial	3
Metro Mapping: development of an innovative methodology to co-design care paths to support shared decision making in oncology	3
Proposed triggers for retiring a living systematic review	3
Quality of reporting among systematic reviews underpinning the ESC/ACC guidelines on ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death	3
The Six Steps of SDM: linking theory to practice, measurement and implementation	3
Education in evidence-based health care: never a greater need	3
Ten papers for teachers of evidence-based medicine and health care: Sicily workshop 2019	3
Living health technology assessments: how close to living reality?	3
Efficacy and effectiveness studies of depression are not well-differentiated in the literature: a systematic review	3
Problem-based shared decision-making in diabetes care: a secondary analysis of video-recorded encounters	3
First academic league of EBM in Brazil: experience report	3
Knowledge user survey and Delphi process to inform development of a new risk of bias tool to assess systematic reviews with network meta-analysis (RoB NMA tool)	3
Context matters! What is really tested in an RCT?	3
Reducing the residue of retractions in evidence synthesis: ways to minimise inappropriate citation and use of retracted data	3
Short and long-term psychosocial consequences of participating in a colorectal cancer screening programme: a matched longitudinal study	3
Dealing with categorical risk data when extracting data for meta-analysis	3
NICE rapid guidelines: exploring political influence on guidelines	3
The complexity underlying treatment rankings: how to use them and what to look at	3
Retrieval barriers in individual participant data reviews with network meta-analysis	3
Effect size reporting among prominent health journals: a case study of odds ratios	3
Ivabradine added to usual care in patients with heart failure: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis	3
EMA’s mishandling of an investigation into suspected serious neurological harms of HPV vaccines	3
In-person schooling is essential even during periods of high transmission of COVID-19	3
Likelihood ratio interpretation of the relative risk	3
Integrating evidence-based medicine skills into a medical school curriculum: a quantitative outcomes assessment	3
Online supplementation for teaching evidence-based medicine: feasibility of a randomised-controlled trial	3
Heterogeneity of outcomes for intraoperative music interventions: a scoping review and evidence map	3
Responsible dissemination of health and medical research: some guidance points	2
The ‘double whammy’ of low prevalence in clinical risk prediction	2
Expanding the measurement of overdiagnosis in the context of disease precursors and risk factors	2
Improving the transparency of meta-analyses with interactive web applications	2
Partnering with patients in the production of evidence	2
Distance practical course on systematic reviews to support decisions of Brazilian regulatory agency for supplementary healthcare system	2
The Pandora’s Box of Evidence Synthesis and the case for a living Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy	2
Patient-reported effects of hospital-wide implementation of shared decision-making at a university medical centre in Germany: a pre–post trial	2
How to interpret studies using Mendelian randomisation	2
Methylphenidate denied access to the WHO List of Essential Medicines for the second time	2
Innovating in healthcare: perspective from a dual role	2
All health is not equal: the use of modifiers in NICE technology appraisal	2
Using absolute risk reduction to guide the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines	2
Extracting data from diagnostic test accuracy studies for meta-analysis	2
Successes, lessons and opportunities: 15-year follow-up of an integrated evidence-based medicine curriculum	2
Correlation between chest CT and RT-PCR testing in India’s second COVID-19 wave: a retrospective cohort study	2
FDA’s dilemma with the aducanumab approval: public pressure and hope, surrogate markers and efficacy, and possible next steps	2

Quality of systematic reviews supporting the 2017 ACC/AHA and 2018 ESC/ESH guidelines for the management of hypertension	2
Completeness of reporting for systematic reviews of point-of-care ultrasound: a meta-research study	2
Sharing study materials in health and medical research	2
Translation of Oxford’s CEBM catalogue of bias into Portuguese: contributing to the dissemination of conscientious thinking on health research	2
Advocating for evidence-informed decisions to make healthcare fit for each person	2
When does the placebo effect have an impact on network meta-analysis results?	2
Decision Analysis in SHared decision making for Thromboprophylaxis during Pregnancy (DASH-TOP): a sequential explanatory mixed-methods pilot study	2
Catalogue of bias: novelty bias	2
Non-pharmacological interventions for autism spectrum disorder in children: an overview of systematic reviews	2
Reporting and methodological quality of studies that use Mendelian randomisation in UK Biobank: a meta-epidemiological study	2
SARS-CoV-2 myocarditis: what physicians need to know	2
Perspectives on the production, and use, of rapid evidence in decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study	2
Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease: expediting approval and delaying science	2
From publication bias to lost in information: why we need a central public portal for clinical trial data	2
Digitally enabled decentralised research: opportunities to improve the efficiency of clinical trials and observational studies	2
Development of five online modules for teaching evidence-informed healthcare: the West coast Interprofessional Clinical Knowledge Evidence Disseminator (WICKED) Project	2
Caring without boundaries: delimiting shared decision-making	2
Getting the COVID-19 vaccine as a transplant patient	2
Was amorphous aluminium hydroxyphosphate sulfate adequately evaluated before authorisation in Europe?	2
Curcumin and proton pump inhibitors for functional dyspepsia: a randomised, double blind controlled trial	2
Towards transparency: adoption of WHO best practices in clinical trial registration and reporting among top medical research funders in the USA	2
Is a one-size-fits-all ‘12-month rule’ appropriate when it comes to the last search date in systematic reviews?	2
Students 4 Best Evidence as a digital Problem-Based Learning method to improve Evidence-Based Practice competencies in undergraduate physiotherapy students: an observational study	2