Perceptions of complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine: Insights from a large-scale international cross-sectional survey of surgery researchers and clinicians by Jeremy Y. Ng, Brenda X. Lin, Holger Cramer

“…Methods: A survey was conducted among authors who published in surgery journals. 40 074 clinicians and researchers were invited to participate. …”
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Perceptions of ethical decision-making climate among clinicians working in European and US ICUs: differences between religious and non-religious healthcare professionals by Hanne Irene Jensen, Hans-Henrik Bülow, Lucas Dierickx, Stijn Vansteelandt, Rosanna Vaschetto, Gábor Élö, Ruth Piers, Dominique D. Benoit

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Identifying Preferred Features of Influenza Vaccination Programs Among Chinese Clinicians Practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine: Discrete Choice Experiment by Liuren Zhang, Linchen Chu, Maria E Sundaram, Yi Zhou, Xiu Sun, Zheng Wei, Chuanxi Fu

“… Abstract BackgroundAchieving high vaccine coverage among clinicians is crucial to curb the spread of influenza. …”
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‘It was like being hit with a brick’: a qualitative study on the effect of clinicians’ delivery of a diagnosis of eye disease for patients in primary and secondary care by Lucy Moore, Jasleen Kaur Jolly, Anne Ferrey

“…Participants felt the provision of a hospital liaison service and/or counselling could mitigate the impact on patients and families.Conclusions Interactions with clinicians can have a lasting impact on how a diagnosis is experienced and how well the patient is able to come to terms with their visual impairment. …”
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The effect of clinician-expressed empathy and nocebo-alleviating information on breast-cancer-patients' anxiety and side effects during active chemotherapy: A clinical feasibility study by Lara C. Gröschel, Fiona T. Brosig, Marcel Soesan, Katherina T. Vourtsis, Mirte van der Spek, Elise Sluiter, Liesbeth M. van Vliet

“…Objective: We set up a pilot-study to investigate main and interaction effects of nocebo-alleviating information and clinician-expressed empathy delivered via a standardized information-video on breast cancer patients' psychological and side effect outcomes during chemotherapy. …”
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Theory-informed refinement and tailored implementation of a quality improvement program in maternity care to reduce unwarranted clinical variation across a health service network by Kym Warhurst, Zephanie Tyack, Michael Beckmann, Bridget Abell

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Clinicians’ experience with infographic summaries from the BMJ Rapid Recommendations: a qualitative user-testing study among residents and interns at a large teaching hospital in Switzerland by Thomas Agoritsas, Per Vandvik, Tiffany Hirschel

“…Objective Clinicians need trustworthy clinical practice guidelines to succeed with evidence-based diagnosis and treatment at the bedside. …”
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Resolution of Symposium on scientific medical communication «The issue of GERD with discussion of potential of GerdQ questionnaire as additional tool for GERD diagnostics in clinician’s practice» of 26 June 2013 by article Editorial

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Clinical Utility of an Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Test Among Cognitively Impaired Patients: Results from the Quality Improvement PrecivityAD2 (QUIP II) Clinician Survey Study by Mark Monane, Demetrius M. Maraganore, Robert M. Carlile, Kim G. Johnson, David A. Merrill, Darren R. Gitelman, Kenneth S. Sharlin, Lawren A. VandeVrede, Kristi K. George, Jimin Wang, Tim West, Leslie Jacobs, Philip B. Verghese, Joel B. Braunstein

“…After receiving the BBM test results, clinicians completed surveys on management strategies for each patient. …”
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Supporting primary care clinicians in caring for patients with alcohol use disorder: study protocol for Records for Alcohol Care Enhancement (RACE), a factorial four-arm randomized trial by Kara M. Magane, Richard Saitz, Sarah Fielman, Marc R. LaRochelle, Christopher W. Shanahan, Christine A. Pace, Michael LaValley, Kaley Penington, Skylar Karzhevsky, Emily Hurstak

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“Gleaning a lot from the history and physical exam,” and “reasonably confident without imaging”: a qualitative study of primary care clinicians' management of patients with low back pain by Lynn Haslam-Larmer, Kathleen E. Norman, Andrea M. Patey, Isabella M. Thomas, Michael E. Green, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Jill A. Hayden, Jan Hartvigsen, Noah M. Ivers, Hazel Jenkins, Simon D. French

“…We investigated clinicians’ views about their use of imaging in the management of low back pain. …”
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Emergency medicine physician supervision and mortality among patients receiving care from non-physician clinicians in a task-sharing model of emergency care in rural Uganda: a retrospective analysis of a single-centre training programme by Rebecca Leff, Brian Rice, Bradley Dreifuss, Heather Hammerstedt, Mark Bisanzo, Stacey Chamberlain, Ashley Pickering, Colleen Laurence, Prisca Mary Kizito, Steven Jonathan Kisingiri, Charles Ndyamwijuka, Serena Nakato, Lema Felix Adriko

“…Objectives To assess the association between emergency medicine physician supervision and 3-day mortality for patients receiving care from non-physician clinicians in a task-sharing model of emergency care in rural Uganda.Design Retrospective cohort analysis with multivariable logistic regression.Setting Single rural Ugandan emergency unit.Participants All patients presenting for care from 2009 to 2019.Interventions Three cohorts of patients receiving care from non-physician clinicians had three different levels of physician supervision: ‘Direct Supervision’ (2009–2010) emergency medicine physicians directly supervised all care; ‘Indirect Supervision’ (2010–2015) emergency medicine physicians were consulted as needed; ‘Independent Care’ (2015–2019) no emergency medicine physician supervision.Primary outcome measure Three-day mortality.Results 38 033 ED visits met inclusion criteria. …”
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Qualitative methods: the missing link in orthopaedic research by Samantha Jones, Sarah Tyson

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Development of a family-centred core outcome set for infants with developmental dysplasia of the hip treated with a brace by Joanna Craven, Olivia O’Malley, Daniel C. Perry

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Describing randomization in trials included in systematic reviews in orthopaedic surgery by Matthew Tang, Kimberley K. Lun, Adriane M. Lewin, Ian A. Harris

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'Which treatment do you believe you received?' A randomised blinding feasibility trial of spinal manual therapy by Javier Muñoz Laguna, Astrid Kurmann, Léonie Hofstetter, Emanuela Nyantakyi, Julia Braun, Lauren Clack, Heejung Bang, Mazda Farshad, Nadine E. Foster, Milo A. Puhan, Cesar A. Hincapié, the SALuBRITY Blinding Clinician Group

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Safety and accuracy of digitally supported primary and secondary urgent care telephone triage in England: an observational study using routine data by Vanashree Sexton, Catherine Grimley, Jeremy Dale, Helen Atherton, Gary Abel

“…Abstract Background England’s urgent care telephone triage system comprises non-clinician-led primary triage (NHS111) assessment followed, for approximately 50% patients, by clinician-led secondary triage. …”
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Human versus Computer Controlled Selection of Ventilator Settings: An Evaluation of Adaptive Support Ventilation and Mid-Frequency Ventilation by Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, Enrique Diaz-Guzman, Alejandro C. Arroliga, Robert L. Chatburn

“…We studied how different clinician-chosen ventilator settings are from these computer algorithms under different scenarios. …”
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Googling Patients by Emily Beer

“…If the information clinicians seek is clinically relevant, patients expect that the clinician will ask for it. …”
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Skin in the game: epidemiology analysis of skin cancer in rural Western Victoria by Tori Dopheide, Jessica Feeney, Joshua Eaton, Jessica Beattie, Rizwan Jaipurwala, Lara Fuller, Leesa Walker

“…The diagnostic accuracy for all skin cancers improved with clinician experience and a lower overall NNT for both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers when compared to existing literature. …”
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