New government legislation is necessary to ensure full transparency of industry payments in the UK’s healthcare. A first step ...

Correspondence to Dr Kerry Dwan, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK; Kerry.dwan{at}york.ac.uk A systematic review identifies, appraises and synthesises all the ...

Correspondence to Dr Elaine Lehane, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland; e.lehane{at}ucc.ie To highlight and advance clinical ...

Correspondence to Dr David Nunan, Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; david.nunan{at}phc.ox.ac.uk Shaping the who, what, when and how for the teaching of ...

Correspondence to Dr Veronika Williams, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; veronika.williams{at}phc.ox.ac.uk Given its scope and its place ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Preeti Malik, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; pmalik.ma{at}gmail.com Objective To evaluate association between biomarkers and outcomes in ...

Correspondence to Dr Jian-peng Huang, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; hopis{at}sina.com Objectives To assess the relative ...

Objectives To quantify the proportion of melanoma diagnoses (invasive and in situ) in the USA that might be overdiagnosed. Design In this ecological study, incidence and mortality data were collected ...

Objective To determine, for people seeking a date online, what activities and behaviours have an effect on the chances of converting electronic communication into a face-to-face meeting. Methods ...