The history and fate of the gold standard

Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine

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Double Standards, Scientific Methods, and Epidemiologic Research

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Critical analysis of coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a 30-year journey.

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Are Randomized Trials Appropriate for Evaluating New Operations?

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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care

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Time to abolish "gold standard"

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What Is Specific to Biomedicine?

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The development of fair tests of treatments

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Evidence for Health Decision Making — Beyond Randomized, Controlled Trials

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Assessing the Gold Standard — Lessons from the History of RCTs

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Design characteristics, risk of bias, and reporting of randomised controlled trials supporting approvals of cancer drugs by European Medicines Agency, 2014-16: cross sectional analysis

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Series: Pragmatic trials and real world evidence: Paper 1. Introduction

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Prescription Opioid Use and Risk for Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety and Stress-Related Disorders: A Multivariable Mendelian Randomization Analysis

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Exercise Interventions in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Decolonising global health: transnational research partnerships under the spotlight

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Generating comparative evidence on new drugs and devices after approval

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Psychological Interventions for Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Psychosis: A Systematic Review of Outcomes

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Generating comparative evidence on new drugs and devices before approval

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The effectiveness of smart home technologies to support the health outcomes of community-dwelling older adults living with dementia: A scoping review

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Effects and Components of Placebos with a Psychological Treatment Rationale – Three Randomized-Controlled Studies

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Undoing Racism and Mitigating Bias Among Healthcare Professionals: Lessons Learned During a Systematic Review

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Fool’s gold? Why blinded trials are not always best

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Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy

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Translating economic evaluations into financing strategies for implementing evidence-based practices

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Digital Shade Matching in Dentistry: A Systematic Review

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Mindfulness programs for problematic usage of the internet: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Evidence-based policy analysis? The strange case of the randomized controlled trials of community-led total sanitation

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A clinical decision model based on machine learning for ptosis

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‘Gold standard care’ is an unhelpful term

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The need for establishing best practices and gold standards in psychedelic medicine

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Social Media, Endometriosis, and Evidence-Based Information: An Analysis of Instagram Content

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Digitale Interventionen in Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung: Welche Form der Evidenz haben wir und welche wird benötigt?

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Randomized Controlled Immunotherapy Clinical Trials for GBM Challenged

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Comparing CABG and PCI across the globe based on current regional registry evidence

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Evaluation of randomized controlled trials: a primer and tutorial for mental health researchers

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Randomized trials and evidence in medicine: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright

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Misspecification and unreliable interpretations in psychology and social science.

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Moderators of Sexual Recidivism as Indicator of Treatment Effectiveness in Persons With Sexual Offense Histories: An Updated Meta-analysis

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Using Mendelian Randomization to Decipher Mechanisms of Bone Disease

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Improved quality of care and reduced healthcare costs at the end-of-life among older people with dementia who received palliative home care: A nationwide propensity score-matched decedent cohort study

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Supporting translation of research evidence into practice—the use of Normalisation Process Theory to assess and inform implementation within randomised controlled trials: a systematic review

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Translational biomarkers in the era of precision medicine

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Mendelian Randomization Highlights the Causal Role of Normal Thyroid Function on Blood Lipid Profiles

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Integrative Field-Based Health and Performance Research: A Narrative Review on Experimental Methods and Logistics to Conduct Competition and Training Camp Studies in Athletes

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Development of a Core Outcome Set for Real-world Data in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation [ECCO] Position Paper

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An eyelid parameters auto-measuring method based on 3D scanning

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Recent Methodological Trends in Epidemiology: No Need for Data-Driven Variable Selection?

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Association between intake of the n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (n-3 PUFA DHA) and reduced risk of ovarian cancer: A systematic Mendelian Randomization study

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The Associations Between Music Training, Musical Working Memory, and Visuospatial Working Memory

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Social and Scientific History of Randomized Controlled Trials

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The Importance of the Hawthorne Effect on Psychological Outcomes Unveiled in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Diabetes Technology

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A Glass Half Full and Half Empty: The State of the Science in Early Childhood Prevention and Intervention Research

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The role of Real-World Data and evidence in oncology medicines approved in EU in 2018–2019

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Recasting the gold standard – part I of II: delineating healthcare options across a continuum of care

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Randomized controlled trials—a critical re-appraisal

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Single-arm trials supporting the approval of anticancer medicinal products in the European Union: contextualization of trial results and observed clinical benefit

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Employing open/hidden administration in psychotherapy research: A randomized-controlled trial of expressive writing

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Infliximab Biosimilar CT-P13 Observational Studies for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and Ankylosing Spondylitis: Pooled Analysis of Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness

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The Impact of Diet on the Colonization of Beneficial Microbes from an Ecological Perspective

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Challenges in oral health research for older adults

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Causal Relationship Between Basal Metabolic Rate and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Bidirectional Two-sample Mendelian Randomization Study

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Identifying the mediating role of socioeconomic status on the relationship between schizophrenia and major depressive disorder: a Mendelian randomisation analysis

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A pragmatic randomized clinical trial of insulin glargine 300 U/ mL vs first‐generation basal insulin analogues in insulin‐naïve adults with type 2 diabetes: 6‐month outcomes of the ACHIEVE Control study

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Family nurture intervention increases term age forebrain EEG activity: A multicenter replication trial

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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an intervention to improve Initial Medication Adherence to treatments for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in primary care: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial and economic model (the IMA-cRCT study)

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Coaching interventions among healthcare students in tertiary education to improve mental well-being: A mixed studies review

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The Application of Evidence-Based Medicine in Individualized Medicine

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Clustered randomized controlled trial protocol of a Mobility-as-a-Service app for College campuses

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Real-World Evidence in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Enhanced Influenza Vaccines in Adults ≥ 65 Years of Age: Literature Review and Expert Opinion

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Quality of reporting and risk of bias: a review of randomised trials in occupational health

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Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes

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Full-endoscopic foraminotomy in low-grade degenerative and isthmic spondylolisthesis: a patient-specific tailored approach

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Randomized controlled trials in the West African Ebola virus outbreak

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Rapid and Accurate Pressure Sensing Device for Direct Measurement of Intraocular Pressure

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Defining the role of pragmatic clinical trials in cancer clinical research: outcomes of a collaborative workshop hosted by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer

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Interventions to improve executive functions in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis

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Assessing the use of observational methods and real-world data to emulate ongoing randomized controlled trials

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Effects of mindfulness-based interventions on cognitive impairment in patients with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Integrative oncology from a bibliometric point of view

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A Narrative Systematic Review and Categorisation of Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease to Inform a Core Outcome Set for Real-world Evidence

Wong, C., van Oostrom, J. M., Bossuyt, P. J., Pittet, V. E. H., Hanžel, J., Samaan, M., Tripathi, M., Czuber‐Dochan, W., Burisch, J. M., Leone, S., et al. (2022) · Journal of Crohn s and Colitis · doi:10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjac057 · Cited by 12

Economic Evaluation of an Intervention Designed to Reduce Bullying in Australian Schools

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Assessing the barriers and enablers to the implementation of the diagnostic radiographer musculoskeletal X-ray reporting service within the NHS in England: a systematic literature review

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A novel preference-informed complementary trial (PICT) design for clinical trial research influenced by strong patient preferences

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Associations between Serum Mineral Nutrients, Gut Microbiota, and Risk of Neurological, Psychiatric, and Metabolic Diseases: A Comprehensive Mendelian Randomization Study

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Are Cannabis-Based Medicines a Useful Treatment for Neuropathic Pain? A Systematic Review

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Insight into the causality between basal metabolic rate and endometrial and ovarian cancers: Analysis utilizing systematic Mendelian randomization and genetic association data from over 331,000 UK biobank participants

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Leadership moments: Understanding nurse clinician‐scientists' leadership as embedded sociohistorical practices

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Doctor–scientist–patients who barketh not: the quantified self‐movement and crowd‐sourcing research

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Surgical management of endometriosis-associated pain

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Street-Level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-Based Practice for PolicingPreprint

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Assessment of outcomes in Crohn's disease: A systematic review of randomized clinical trials to inform a multiple outcome framework

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Human Capital and Productivity in Surgery Research Across the Globe: A Big Data Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence

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Genre and Metagenre in Biomedical Research Writing

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