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Medical reversals in healthcare: factors, assessment, quantification

Guest Editors:

Fares Alahdab: Houston Methodist Academic Institute, USA
Wynne E. Norton: National Cancer Institute, USA 


BMC Medical Research Methodology was calling for submissions to our Collection on "Medical reversals in healthcare: factors, assessment, quantification". This collection welcomed methodological analyses of cases of medical reversal or other low-value medical practices in any medical domain and covers studies on factors leading to or contributing to, analytical methods used to assess and quantify it, and ways to mitigate and prevent it. Applied studies highlighting more general methodological implications are also welcome. The focus should be on the used methodology, answering the question of how a certain methodology has contributed to unveil a low-value medical practice.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Fares Alahdab: Houston Methodist Academic Institute, USA

Dr Fares Alahdab is an expert in the field of research methodology, cardiology, cardiovascular imaging, as well as biomedical informatics. His research interests include research methods, evidence synthesis and guideline development, machine learning, neural networks, decision analysis, meta-epidemiology, and bibliometric research. He currently serves as research faculty at Houston Methodist Academic Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College.

Wynne E. Norton: National Cancer Institute, USA

Wynne E. Norton, Ph.D., is a Program Director in Implementation Science in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute. Her scientific and programmatic interests include de-implementation of ineffective practices, pragmatic trials of implementation strategies, optimization of cancer care delivery, and methodological issues in implementation science. Dr Norton received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Connecticut (2009), and her B.A. in Psychology with honors from the College of William and Mary (2004). She was a Fellow in the Implementation Research Institute and in the Mixed Methods Research Training Program. She serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Implementation Science. 
 

About the collection

BMC Medical Research Methodology is calling for submissions to our Collection on "Medical reversals in healthcare: factors, assessment, quantification". Over the past decade, an increasing number of medical reversal have been reported. Medical reversal is the phenomenon whereby the use of a medical or public health innovation (e.g., medication, procedure, diagnostic tool, device, system intervention) is adopted without sufficiently robust evidence, and is later shown to be ineffective or even harmful by more recent randomized controlled trials.

This collection welcomes methodological analyses of cases of medical reversal or other low-value medical practices in any medical domain and covers studies on factors leading to or contributing to, analytical methods used to assess and quantify it, and ways to mitigate and prevent it. Applied studies highlighting more general methodological implications are also welcome. The focus should be on the used methodology, answering the question of how a certain methodology has contributed to unveil a low-value medical practice.


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  1. The Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET) working group proposed core outcome sets (COS) to address the heterogeneity in outcome measures in clinical studies. According to the recommendations o...

    Authors: Hong Cao, Yan Chen, Zhihao Yang, Junjie Lan, Joey Sum-wing Kwong, Rui Zhang, Huaye Zhao, Linfang Hu, Jiaxue Wang, Shuimei Sun, Songsong Tan, Jinyong Cao, Rui He, Wenyi Zheng and Jiaxing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2024 24:65
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Medical reversals in healthcare and public health: factors, assessment, quantification" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.