Table 5. Example of the number of appraisals retrieved by the DianaHealth.com search engine in July 2015 (n = 2940), on three different health topics.
Initiative | Cancer* | Pregnancy# | Heart disease¥ |
---|---|---|---|
1. NICE Do not Do Recommendations (UK) | 92 | 60 | 20 |
2. Cochrane Quality and Productivity Topics (UK) | 3 | 4 | 0 |
3. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force A recommendations (USA) | 2 | 9 | 0 |
4. The Canadian Task Force for Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) Guidelines (Canada) | 7 | 0 | 0 |
5. JAMA Less is more collection (USA) | 21 | 1 | 7 |
6. MAPAC Initiative (Spain) | 2 | 0 | 0 |
7. Elshaug, et al. article (Australia) | 19 | 2 | 3 |
8. Choosing Wisely® (USA) | 53 | 3 | 23 |
9. Doing more does not mean doing better (Fare di più non significa fare meglio) (Italy) | 13 | 4 | 3 |
10. Essencial (Spain) | 4 | 1 | 1 |
11. Compromiso por la calidad de las Sociedades Científicas (Spain) | 9 | 1 | 4 |
12. Prasad, et al. article (USA) | 6 | 2 | 15 |
13. TheBMJ Too much medicine (UK) | 23 | 1 | 1 |
14. Choosing Wisely Canada (Canada) | 15 | 2 | 2 |
15. Choosing Wisely Netherlands Campaign (Netherlands) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
16. Prescrire Pour mieux soigner, des medicaments à écarter: bilan(France) | 4 | 0 | 0 |
17. Recomendaciones No Hacer semFYC (Spain) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
18. Morgan et al. article (USA) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
19. Smarter medicine (Switzerland) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
20. Recomendaciones No Hacer SERAM (Spain) | 2 | 0 | 0 |
21. Choosing wisely Australia (Australia) | 2 | 1 | 1 |
22. Choosing wisely Japan (Japan) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 282 | 91 | 82 |
* Using the search term cancer.
#Using pregnan as a root word to find pregnancy and pregnant.
¥Combining results of two searches (coronary, infarct).