Better evidence | BMJ impact report 2022
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Accelerating evidence into practice through trustworthy recommendations
The BMJ’s Rapid Recommendations are a form of clinical guidance that is updated when new practice- changing evidence becomes available. They are a collaboration between The BMJ and the MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation (MAGIC). 28 MAGIC and The BMJ also partnered with WHO during the covid-19 pandemic to quickly produce trustworthy guidance on the treatment and prevention of covid for a large international audience. The two living guidelines for drugs to prevent and treat covid-19 are live on bmj.com. 29
Our role in this is to not only apply our editorial expertise in developing educational content and evaluating science, but to also think through how we deliver the most reliable and best information that users need in an easily accessible format. Underpinning these guidelines is a new article type developed during the pandemic; a living systematic review and network meta- analysis 30 which tracks the latest trials evaluating drug therapies and is updated as new evidence emerges. 31
Enabling clinical readers to apply the latest information to their practice Since 2016, The BMJ’s Rapid Recommendations have accelerated getting research evidence into practice. This means new research is incorporated into treatment guidelines in months rather than years. The number of rapid recommendations published or updated by The BMJ doubled from 10 in 2020 to 20 in 2021.
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