The time to act is now: pseudo-systematic review

OBJECTIVE: To identify any medical or public health rationale for claims that the time to act is now. DESIGN: Pseudo-systematic review. DATA SOURCES: PubMed. STUDY SELECTION: Studies that included the claim “time is now” in the title, with or without exclamation marks. No language or date restrictio...

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Autores principales: Ford, Nathan, Brigden, Grania, Ellman, Tom, Mills, Edward J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7726705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33303482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4143
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description OBJECTIVE: To identify any medical or public health rationale for claims that the time to act is now. DESIGN: Pseudo-systematic review. DATA SOURCES: PubMed. STUDY SELECTION: Studies that included the claim “time is now” in the title, with or without exclamation marks. No language or date restriction was applied. RESULTS: 512 articles were included for review. No relationship was identified between time to act and disease burden, severity, or specialty. Claims that the time to act was Christmas were almost entirely without basis. A clustering of claims that it is time to act in the first quarter of the year suggested a possible association with New Year’s resolutions. CONCLUSIONS: Now is as good a time as any.
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spelling pubmed-77267052020-12-21 The time to act is now: pseudo-systematic review Ford, Nathan Brigden, Grania Ellman, Tom Mills, Edward J BMJ Research OBJECTIVE: To identify any medical or public health rationale for claims that the time to act is now. DESIGN: Pseudo-systematic review. DATA SOURCES: PubMed. STUDY SELECTION: Studies that included the claim “time is now” in the title, with or without exclamation marks. No language or date restriction was applied. RESULTS: 512 articles were included for review. No relationship was identified between time to act and disease burden, severity, or specialty. Claims that the time to act was Christmas were almost entirely without basis. A clustering of claims that it is time to act in the first quarter of the year suggested a possible association with New Year’s resolutions. CONCLUSIONS: Now is as good a time as any. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7726705/ /pubmed/33303482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4143 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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