In today’s Lancet, the INTERHEART study investigators report a well-coordinated study of
risk factors for myocardial infarction in multiple populations. They present hazard ratios and …

Comment of 20 items (table). The WHO-mandated items collectively address every key
requirement that we established in our September, 2004, editorial. The ICMJE supports the WHO …

Background: UpToDate and PubMed are popular sources for medical information. Data
regarding the efficiency of PubMed and UpToDate in daily medical care are lacking. Objective: …

Background Academic biomedical journals use peer review and editing to help to select
and improve the quality of articles. We have investigated whether articles accepted by the …

Background: Translating a question into a query using patient characteristics, type of
intervention, control, and outcome (PICO) should help answer therapeutic questions in PubMed …

Background The use of PubMed to answer daily medical care questions is limited because it
is challenging to retrieve a small set of relevant articles and time is restricted. Knowing what …

Objectives: The research sought to determine the value of PubMed filters and combinations
of filters in literature selected for systematic reviews on therapy-related clinical questions. …

OBJECTIVE: To validate and test a simple instrument for assessing the quality of a review.
METHODS: In this prospective observational study, the quality of 247 reviews of 119 original …

Two cellulose-based chiral stationary phases were compared on their feasibility to resolve a
representative number of 2-arylpropionic acids : a new experimental phase (Tolylcellulose, …

Objective To determine the number of undisclosed/disclosed duplicate publications of
original articles (OA) in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (NTvG). Design