Precision public health is an emerging and evolving field. Academic communities are divided regarding terminology and definitions, and what the scope, parameters and goals of precision public health should include. This protocol summarises the procedure for a scoping review which aims to identify and describe [...]
Worldwide there has been an increase in the use of diagnostic labels for both physical and psychological diagnoses. Diagnoses reflects the process of classifying an individual who presents with certain signs and symptoms as having, or not having, a particular disease. The diagnostic process can [...]
Small changes in practice, when implemented throughout healthcare systems around the world, can have sizable positive impacts on the environment and on healthcare costs. It is important for the medical profession to review legacy practices and reconsider interventions with no or low benefit to patients.
Although digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) improves breast cancer screen-detection compared to digital mammography (DM), there is less evidence on comparative screening outcomes by age and breast density, and inconsistent evidence on its effect on recall rate.
Arthroscopic knee surgery remains a common treatment for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, including for degenerative meniscal tears, despite guidelines strongly recommending against its use. This Cochrane Review is an update of a non‐Cochrane systematic review published in 2017.
Clinical quality registries (CQRs) monitor compliance against optimal practice and provide feedback to the clinical community and wider stakeholder groups. Despite a number of CQRs having incorporated the patient perspective to support the evaluation of healthcare delivery, no recommendations for inclusion of patient-reported outcome measures [...]
Hip fractures are devastating for older people. The incidence of hip fracture declined in Australia by 9.5% between 2006–07 and 2015–16. However, the number of older people with hip fractures is expected to increase as the population ages, particularly among the oldest old (aged 80 years [...]
While in the past paracetamol was almost uniformly recommended in guidelines for low back pain, the evidence that has emerged over the last decade has forced guideline committees to rethink their earlier endorsement. Paracetamol is not an evidence-based treatment for low back pain and should [...]
Verkerk and colleagues explored the key drivers of low-value care from the perspective of 18 policy-makers and researchers who had led and evaluated at least one initiative to reduce low-value care or had been responsible for reducing low-value care in an organisation. They identified several [...]
Previous randomized studies have suggested that there is no short-term difference between the risk of revision following total hip arthroplasty (THA) and hemiarthroplasty (HA) for hip fracture in elderly patients. The aim of the present study was to compare the long-term revision rates of primary [...]