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Thomas Agoritsas

Professor of Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva
Verified email at unige.ch
Cited by 22595

Interventions for enhancing medication adherence

R Nieuwlaat, N Wilczynski, T Navarro… - Cochrane database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background People who are prescribed self administered medications typically take only
about half their prescribed doses. Efforts to assist patients with adherence to medications …

Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis

RAC Siemieniuk, JJ Bartoszko, D Zeraatkar, E Kum… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To compare the effects of treatments for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19).
Design Living systematic review and network meta-analysis. Data sources WHO covid-19 …

Living systematic review: 1. Introduction—the why, what, when, and how

JH Elliott, A Synnot, T Turner, M Simmonds… - Journal of clinical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Systematic reviews are difficult to keep up to date, but failure to do so leads to a decay in
review currency, accuracy, and utility. We are developing a novel approach to systematic …

Discrimination and calibration of clinical prediction models: users' guides to the medical literature

AC Alba, T Agoritsas, M Walsh, S Hanna, A Iorio… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Accurate information regarding prognosis is fundamental to optimal clinical care. The best
approach to assess patient prognosis relies on prediction models that simultaneously …

A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19

A Agarwal, B Rochwerg, F Lamontagne… - 2022 - scholar.sun.ac.za
This living guideline by Arnav Agarwal and colleagues (BMJ 2020; 370: m3379, doi:
10.1136/bmj. m3379) was last updated on 22 April 2022, but the infographic contained two …

[HTML][HTML] Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain

JW Busse, S Craigie, DN Juurlink, DN Buckley, L Wang… - Cmaj, 2017 - Can Med Assoc
Methods In developing this guideline, the steering committee followed standards for
trustworthy guidelines. 15 We included innovative approaches for key standards such as …

A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19

A Agarwal, BJ Hunt, M Stegemann, B Rochwerg… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Updates This is the fourteenth version (thirteenth update) of the living guideline, replacing
earlier versions (available as data supplements). New recommendations will be published …

Adjusted analyses in studies addressing therapy and harm: users' guides to the medical literature

T Agoritsas, A Merglen, ND Shah, M O'Donnell… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Observational studies almost always have bias because prognostic factors are unequally
distributed between patients exposed or not exposed to an intervention. The standard …

Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Ilic, M Djulbegovic, JH Jung, EC Hwang, Q Zhou… - bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to
screen for prostate cancer. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources …

How to read a systematic review and meta-analysis and apply the results to patient care: users' guides to the medical literature

MH Murad, VM Montori, JPA Ioannidis, R Jaeschke… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Clinical decisions should be based on the totality of the best evidence and not the results of
individual studies. When clinicians apply the results of a systematic review or meta-analysis …