We are living through a health financing emergency, with persistent inflation, anaemic growth and record levels of debt servicing constraining especially poorer country governments’ ability to invest ...

Health technology assessment in India in the next decade: reflections on a vision for its path to maturity and impact ...

A network meta-analysis combines the evidence from existing randomised trials about the comparative efficacy of multiple treatments. It allows direct and indirect evidence about each comparison to be ...

5 Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) Correspondence to Professor Hong-Hee Won, SAIHST, Seoul 06351, Korea (the Republic of); wonhh{at}skku.edu; Professor ...

5 School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland 6 Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Education and Innovation in Health Systems (IRIS) ...

Objectives In our study of the accuracy of blood gas/electrolyte analyzers, we have re-discovered that the the anion gap calculation (Na – Cl – HCO3) is an excellent indicator of electrolyte ...

Correspondence to Dr Peiming Zhang, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Foshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, China; 20202110151{at}stu.gzucm.edu.cn If you ...

Objectives While the definition and importance of the phenomenon of overdiagnosis have been increasingly debated, the definition of underdiagnosis has not. This is despite underdiagnosis being less ...

2 The Spanish Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment and Services of the National Health System (RedETS), Tenerife, Spain 3 Network for Research on Chronicity, Primary Care, and Health ...

Objective We aimed at providing a systematic overview of randomised trials assessing non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to prevent COVID-19. Design Scoping review. Methods We included all ...