No excuse for ignoring methodologically sound studies

EMBASE search strategies for identifying methodologically sound diagnostic studies for use by clinicians and researchers

BACKGROUND Accurate diagnosis by clinicians is the cornerstone of decision making for recommending clinical interventions. The current best evidence from research concerning diagnostic tests changes unpredictably as science advances. Both clinicians and researchers need dependable access to published evidence concerning diagnostic accuracy. Bibliographic databases such as EMBASE provide the mos...

HIV: low prevalence is no excuse for not testing.

Misused honorary authorship is no excuse for quantifying the unquantifiable.

Kovacs argues that honorary authorship and regarding each co-author of multi-authored papers as if they were sole authors when the performance of researchers is being evaluated by their publications mean that we should require authors to identify what proportion of each publication should be attributed to each co-author. Even if such attributions could be made reliably, such a change should not...

There is no excuse for domestic abuse--reflections on violence.

I could comment for hours about victims I’ve seen over my 25 years in the Emergency Room (ER) who were battered by those they trusted, about swollen, pulpy, fractured faces; about broken limbs, multiple bruises, stab wounds and gunshot wounds that were meant to maim; about panic, fear, hopelessness and about the deaths of some of the victims. I could comment about the horrific effects on childr...

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature search strategies for identifying methodologically sound causation and prognosis studies.

We developed search strategies for detecting sound articles on causation and prognosis in Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) in the year 2000. An analytic survey was conducted, comparing hand searches of 75 journals with retrievals from CINAHL for 5,020 search terms and 11,784 combinations for causation and 9,946 combinations for prognosis. For detecting sound cau...