Breast density is one of a number of independent risk factors for breast cancer.1 Having dense breasts (heterogeneously dense or extremely dense) is prevalent in 40%–50% of women in the breast ...

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Existing reporting checklists lack the specificity and comprehensiveness required to effectively guide the documentation of acupuncture case reports. Therefore, we developed a reporting guideline ...

Healthcare delivery is being transformed by the rapid growth of data, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and other ...

Objective This study evaluates whether Taiwan’s national oral cancer screening programme, implemented in 1999, has led to a ...

In 20 years of researching and teaching health risk communication methods, the most common question we get is: how should I communicate this [adverse event risk, survival probability, etc.] so that ...

Journal clubs, typically involving a group of health professionals or trainees who discuss recent study findings, have long been considered a fundamental element of teaching evidence-based practice.

There is a balance when determining the sample size of a new study: with too few participants, the study may not detect an effect; with too many, some participants may undergo inferior treatments ...

Choosing Wisely campaigns are clinician-led efforts to raise awareness and develop interventions to reduce low-value health care. At the core of Choosing Wisely campaigns are lists of recommendations, ...

The phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis, the diagnosis of a malignant tumour that, without detection, would never lead to adverse health effects, has been reported for several cancer types in different ...