A Delphi and methodological workshop study

A Delphi and methodological workshop study

Evidence synthesis, such as the conduct of a systematic review or clinical guideline development, is time-consuming, laborious, and costly. This is largely due to the vast amounts of titles and abstra...

ALT: Balancing Rope GIF

Therapeutic options for people experiencing neuropathic pain from diabetic peripheral neuropathy are limited, and impact can be severe. Physical and psychological interventions remain under-explore...

To assess the adequacy of reporting of funder and authors’ financial conflicts of interest information in randomised trial publications of drugs or devices, and to assess to which degree the missing i...

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The study aimed to assess the design, reporting, and risk of bias in effectiveness trials in manual therapy, comparing pragmatic with non-pragmatic trials and trials with and without placebo controls.

The study aimed to assess the design, reporting, and risk of bias in effectiveness trials in manual therapy, comparing pragmatic with non-pragmatic trials and trials with and without placebo controls.

To systematically investigate trustworthiness (methodological rigor, transparency, good governance, research integrity, and absence of misconduct) in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of osteopathic...

An Elsevier journal is investigating a paper by a controversial author after a Retraction Watch inquiry about the article. The article concluded that “placebo effects have a significant impact on o…

We have funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Undergraduate Internship Programme to fund an exciting opportunity for three undergraduate students to undertake interns...

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

To support systematic reviewers new to network meta-analysis (NMA), we (i) identified and described published methods resources for conducting systematic reviews (SRs) with NMA of randomized controlle...

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PDF | On Feb 22, 2025, David Hohenschurz-Schmidt and others published From placebos and shams to high-quality control interventions in manual therapy trials to study efficacy and mechanisms | Find, re...

Published in Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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