All Stories

  1. TIDieR-Placebo: A guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls

    Article • PLoS Medicine, September 2020, PLOS

    Jeremy Howick

  2. Negative words can harm patients, and this needs to influence the ethics of informed consent

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2020, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick

  3. Why include humanities in medical studies: comment

    Article • Internal and Emergency Medicine, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeremy Howick

  4. Inadequate description of placebo and sham controls in a systematic review of recent trials

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Investigation, September 2019, Wiley

    Jeremy Howick

  5. Effectiveness of cognitive–behavioural therapy: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2018, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick, Prof Roshan das Nair

  6. Rapid overview of systematic reviews of nocebo effects reported by patients taking placebos in clinical trials

    Article • Trials, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeremy Howick

  7. Technology: a help or hindrance to empathic healthcare?

    Article • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Jeremy Howick

  8. Philosophy of too much medicine conference report

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, July 2018, Wiley

    Jeremy Howick

  9. Therapeutic empathy: what it is and what it isn't

    Article • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, July 2018, SAGE Publications

    Jeremy Howick

  10. How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys

    Article • BMC Medical Education, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeremy Howick

  11. Effects of placebos without deception compared with no treatment: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis: Table 1

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2015, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick

  12. In search of justification for the unpredictability paradox

    Article • Trials, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander Mebius, Jeremy Howick

  13. Neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza complications

    Article • The Lancet, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Chris B Del Mar, Jeremy Howick

  14. Current and future use of point-of-care tests in primary care: an international survey in Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA

    Article • BMJ Open, August 2014, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick

  15. Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?

    Article • BMJ, June 2014, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick

  16. Homeopathy for allergic rhinitis: protocol for a systematic review

    Article • Systematic Reviews, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeremy Howick

  17. The Need for Randomization in Animal Trials: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

    Article • PLOS One, June 2014, PLOS

    Jeremy Howick

  18. Response to ’Position statement on ethics, equipoise and research on charged particle therapy‘

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, May 2014, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick

  19. Placebo use in the UK: a qualitative study exploring GPs’ views on placebo effects in clinical practice

    Article • Family Practice, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jeremy Howick

  20. Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in adults and children

    Article • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor Chris B Del Mar, Jeremy Howick

  21. Primary care clinicians’ attitudes towards point-of-care blood testing: a systematic review of qualitative studies

    Article • BMC Family Practice, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeremy Howick

  22. Problems with using mechanisms to solve the problem of extrapolation

    Article • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeremy Howick

  23. Are Treatments More Effective than Placebos? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • PLOS One, May 2013, PLOS

    Jeremy Howick

  24. Placebo Use in the United Kingdom: Results from a National Survey of Primary Care Practitioners

    Article • PLOS One, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Harri Hemila, Jeremy Howick

  25. Can understanding mechanisms solve the problem of extrapolating from study to target populations (the problem of ‘external validity’)?

    Article • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Jeremy Howick

  26. Understanding GRADE: an introduction

    Article • Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, February 2013, Wiley

    Jeremy Howick

  27. Saying Things the “Right” Way: Avoiding “Nocebo” Effects and Providing Full Informed Consent

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Jeremy Howick

  28. The evidence underpinning sports performance products: a systematic assessment

    Article • BMJ Open, January 2012, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick

  29. Stats.con

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, September 2011, Wiley

    Jeremy Howick

  30. The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine

    Article • April 2011, Wiley

    Jeremy Howick

  31. Evidence-based mechanistic reasoning

    Article • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 2010, SAGE Publications

    Jeremy Howick

  32. What's in Placebos: Who Knows? Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, October 2010, American College of Physicians

    Jeremy Howick

  33. Questioning the Methodologic Superiority of ‘Placebo’ Over ‘Active’ Controlled Trials

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Jeremy Howick

  34. Reviewing the Unsubstantiated Claims for the Methodological Superiority of ‘Placebo’ over ‘Active’ Controlled Trials: Reply to Open Peer Commentaries

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Jeremy Howick

  35. Escaping from placebo prison

    Article • BMJ, May 2009, BMJ

    Jeremy Howick

  36. The evolution of evidence hierarchies: what can Bradford Hill's ‘guidelines for causation’ contribute?

    Article • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, May 2009, SAGE Publications

    Jeremy Howick

  37. If Children Understand Drawing Straws and Flipping Coins, Research Participants Can Understand Randomization

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Jeremy Howick