A wide range of support is available to help smokers to quit and to aid attempts at harm
reduction, including three first-line smoking cessation medications: nicotine replacement …

Objectives: Medicine must keep current with the research literature, and keeping current
requires continuously updating the clinical knowledgebase (ie, references that provide …

BACKGROUND Fertility problems are accompanied by a lot of emotional distress, resulting
in a considerable proportion of female patients showing severe maladjustment after assisted …

Evidence-based management (EBMgt) is an evolution in the practice of management. It is a
knowledge-intensive, capacity-building way to think, act, organize, and lead. Its practice …

BACKGROUND Many physicians rely on the abstracts of research articles to guide their
clinical decision making. This need for expediency is one basis for many journals to reformat …

The biochemical definition of dental caries is reasonably understood and generally agreed
upon, but there is no consensus on a clinical definition among dentists. There are many …

Background We conducted this analysis to determine i) which journals publish high-quality,
clinically relevant studies in internal medicine, general/family practice, general practice …

Hierarchies of evidence are an important and influential tool for appraising evidence in
medicine. In recent years, hierarchies have been formally adopted by organizations …

Traditional continuing medical education (CME) has been disconnected from the actual
practice of medicine and has not focused on providing the most useful information in the …

Physiotherapy emerged as a profession only a century ago and has a fragile, but evolving
research evidence base. Physiotherapy has been subject to decades of criticism for its lack …