Health care-associated native valve endocarditis: importance of non-nosocomial acquisition by Benito, N., Miro, J.M., de Lazzari, E., Cabell, C.H., del Rio, A., Altclas, J., Commerford, P., Delahaye, F., Dragulescu, S., Giamarellou, H., Habib, G., Kamarulzaman, A., Kumar, A.S., Nacinovich, F.M., Suter, F., Tribouilloy, C., Venugopal, K., Moreno, A., Fowler, V.G.

How COVID-19 Affected the Journal Impact Factor of High Impact Medical Journals: Bibliometric Analysis by Orestis Delardas, Panagiotis Giannos

“…MethodsWe took as an example 6 high-impact medical journals (Annals of Internal Medicine [Annals], The British Medical Journal [The BMJ], Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], The Lancet, Nature Medicine [NatMed], and The New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM]) and searched the literature using the Web of Science database for manuscripts published between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2021. …”
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Methodological Rigor and Temporal Trends of Cardiovascular Medicine Meta‐Analyses in Highest‐Impact Journals by Dhruv Mahtta, Ahmed Altibi, Mohamed M. Gad, Amjad Samara, Amr F. Barakat, Rodrigo Bagur, Hend Mansoor, Hani Jneid, Salim S. Virani, Mamas A. Mamas, Ahmad Masri, Islam Y. Elgendy

“…Methods and Results Using the Medline database, we retrieved cardiovascular medicine‐related systematic reviews and meta‐analyses published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, The British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation, European Heart Journal, and Journal of American College of Cardiology between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2018. …”
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COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time by Goldacre, B, Drysdale, H, Dale, A, Milosevic, I, Slade, E, Hartley, P, Marston, C, Powell-Smith, A, Heneghan, C, Mahtani, KR

“…<br/><strong>Methods: </strong>We identified five high-impact journals endorsing Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) (New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, and Annals of Internal Medicine) and assessed all trials over a six-week period to identify every correctly and incorrectly reported outcome, comparing published reports against published protocols or registry entries, using CONSORT as the gold standard. …”

Protocol for the development of guidance for collaborator and partner engagement in health care evidence syntheses by Peter Tugwell, Vivian Welch, Olivia Magwood, Alex Todhunter-Brown, Elie A. Akl, Thomas W. Concannon, Joanne Khabsa, Richard Morley, Holger Schunemann, Lyubov Lytvyn, Arnav Agarwal, Alba Antequera, Marc T. Avey, Pauline Campbell, Christine Chang, Stephanie Chang, Leonila Dans, Omar Dewidar, Davina Ghersi, Ian D. Graham, Glen Hazlewood, Jennifer Hilgart, Tanya Horsley, Denny John, Janet Jull, Lara J. Maxwell, Chris McCutcheon, Zachary Munn, Francesco Nonino, Jordi Pardo Pardo, Roses Parker, Kevin Pottie, Gabriel Rada, Alison Riddle, Anneliese Synnot, Elizabeth Tanjong Ghogomu, Eve Tomlinson, Karine Toupin-April, Jennifer Petkovic

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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…“Nonabandonment: A Central Obligation for Physicians.” Annals of Internal Medicine, 368–74. …”
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