Policy Points: Currently, there is massive production of unnecessary, misleading, and
conflicted systematic reviews and meta‐analyses. Instead of promoting evidence‐based …

Background Meta‐analyses based on individual participant data (IPD‐MAs) allow more
powerful and uniformly consistent analyses as well as better characterisation of subgroups …

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes
changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the rise of biomedicine in the …

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Recently, multiple imputation has been proposed as a tool for individual patient data meta‐
analysis with sporadically missing observations, and it has been suggested that within‐study …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by
persistent inflammation of synovial joints with pain, often leading to joint destruction and …

Objectives To evaluate how data from n-of-1 trials may be used in systematic reviews and
meta-analyses by examining the effects of amphetamine and methylphenidate for attention …

The topic of advocacy by scientists has been debated for decades, yet there is little
agreement about whether scientists can or should be advocates. The fear of crossing a line …

Background Evidence-based policy (EBP), a concept modelled on the principles of evidence-
based medicine (EBM), is widely used in different areas of policymaking. Systematic reviews …

Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis is the gold standard of meta-analyses. This
paper points out several advantages of IPD meta-analysis over classical meta-analysis …