Objectives Evidence comparing the effectiveness of surgical and conservative treatment of symptomatic lumbar disc herniation is controversial. We sought to compare short-term and long-term ...

2 Pregnancy Loss Research Group, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Ireland 3 The Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), University College ...

Introduction Suicide is a major public health concern among youth in Canada and worldwide. The most rapid increases in suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts have been observed among ...

Objectives To estimate the prevalence of sickle cell trait, sickle cell disease, beta-thalassaemia minor and ...

1 Department of Health Sciences and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of ...

Objectives To survey UK doctors on their uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and of their views on the ethics and regulation of AI in healthcare. Design Anonymous cross-sectional e-survey. Setting An ...

Objective Communication failures between clinicians lead to poor patient outcomes. Critically injured patients have multiple injured organ systems and require complex multidisciplinary care from a ...

The objective of this commentary is to develop a framework for assessing the rigour of qualitative approaches that identifies and distinguishes between the diverse objectives of qualitative health ...

Objectives Assess the impact of text-based electronic notifications on improving clinic attendance, in relation to study quality (according to risk of bias), and to assess simple ways in which ...

Objective To assess the impact of adjunctive antibiotic therapy on uncomplicated skin abscesses. Design Systematic review and network meta-analysis. Data sources Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Central ...

Objectives This study aims to explore the history of prior abortions and the factors influencing them among young women seeking abortion services in Foshan, Guangdong, China. Design This is a ...

1 NIHR CLAHRC for North West London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK Setting A wide range ...