Discover the breadth of PHSM interventions and outcomes covered in our Evidence & Gap Map! Our overview encapsulates insights from 94 reviews, providing a comprehensive look at #COVID_19 #PHSM response strategies. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

Our overview of reviews looked at the evidence from 94 systematic reviews to understand the impact of public health and social measures implemented during #COVID_19 pandemic. Here are the implications for research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

Our Evidence and Gap Map visually presents the types of public health & social measures (#PHSM) and outcomes covered by 94 reviews in the context of #COVID_19 pandemic. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

Public Health & Social measures may be effective in #COVID19-related epidemiological outcomes but they have unintended health & socioeconomic consequences. What is the right balance between effectiveness & unintended consequences? Read more: dx.doi.org/10.1002/cesm.1… #PHSM

We launched the #HTAi2024 conference with an exciting workshop on the integration of the LE model into HTA led by the LE-IHD team with the collaboration of researchers from IACS (Salud-Aragón) and bioef 🤝A big thank you to all the fantastic participants. Stay tuned!

Superficial engagement with generative AI masks its potential contribution as an academic interlocuter #AcademicChatter wp.me/p4m9em-cvh

Still digesting the whirlwind that was #GES2024…. But one thing is certain, it stayed true to its mission of bringing the evidence community together, I worked closely with colleagues from Cochrane The Campbell Collaboration eBASE Africa & others and it brought so much joy! #EBHC

Congratulations to the Mexican Society of Nutrition and Endocrinology on their new #obesity clinical practice guidelines! No doubt this guideline will become a new benchmark for obesity care in Mexico! Epistemonikos Obesidades México link.springer.com/article/10.100…

new evidence based, patient centred Mexican Clinical Practice Guideline for the management of Obesity in Adults link.springer.com/article/10.100… Sociedad Mexicana de Nutrición y Endocrinología INCMNSZ CINyS - INSP Obesidades México World Obesity EASO The Obesity Society Obesity Canada Epistemonikos Replica Communications

#AireFresco | Gabriel Rada: "Si a una persona un experto le dice A y otro Z, dice que hay controversia y se olvida (...) Es vital que el mundo científico actúe como bloque y que tenga la información clara y a tiempo" ▶️En vivo duna.cl/tv App, YouTube, Instagram y

🆕Health #equity extension of the GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist Omar Dewidar Elie Akl Andrea J. Darzi MD, MPH, PhD Tamara Lotfi (she/her) Jana Khawandi Holger Schünemann thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

Big news for #EBM! Just out in #BMJ, ROBUST-RCT, pristinely developed, innovative, simple, user-friendly instrument for risk of bias assessment in #RCTs far superior to anything before, will become standard outside of Cochrane and in #Cochrane if they let folks use it.

Systematic review of VTE treatment: Shorter anticoagulation (3-6 m) better for all types of VTE. For secondary prevention of unprovoked VTE or VTE provoked by chronic risk factors, indefinite treatment is more beneficial. ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/… congratas to Madison Y. Zhang et al

Breakthrough for #EBM! #GRADE, leading resource for certainty of evidence and evidence to recommendations now too complex, disorganized. Solution in 7 papers on GRADE essentials “Core GRADE” in #BMJ. This week, introduction to series summarizes content. bmj.com/content/389/bm…

Delivering up-to-date, high-quality evidence is feasible during emergencies: PAHO living SR of 305 COVID-19 therapeutics pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12… Collaboration PAHO/WHO + Epistemonikos led by Izcovich Ariel Repository app.iloveevidence.com/covid19 Result's website covid-therapy.bvsalud.org

I would like to express my deep gratitude to three reviewers of the #BMJ Core #GRADE papers, Sheri Keitz, Ariel Izcovich, and Mark Helfand whose careful, meticulous, and insightful reviews had a huge positive impact on the series.

Health-related SDGs in the national science agendas of Latin America and the Caribbean: a scoping review equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

The #GRADE evidence to decision (EtD) framework provides invaluable guidance in moving from evidence to recommendations. There are a number of variations for specific areas. This article explains EtD frameworks for #HealthSystem and policy decisions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29843743/

En salud sobran papeles y faltan certezas. Con @Epistemonikos, Gabriel Rada acerca conocimiento confiable a quienes deciden. 🎧 #Biodots youtube.com/@biodots1 medium.com/@fedelosco/epi… Marco.Care

👋 Farewell to the Number Needed to Treat after 35 years of service. 🙏🕊️🎖️ Murad et al. argue it’s time to retire the NNT and embrace the Risk Difference. The NNT is dead, long live the RD! jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…