Deborah J. Cook

TL;DR: Adjudication of whether an outcome can be attributed to an intervention in an open-label, uncontrolled observational study gives a potentially misleading impression of research oversight without methodological face validity.

TL;DR: Practice guidelines, like scientific overviews, economic evaluations and decision analyses, are part of an increasing body of the medical literature referred to as synthetic research, which provides short cuts for busy clinicians who want to practice medicine based on the best evidence available.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the influence of personalized paintings created to honor critically ill patients on family members' bereavement experience and found that the paintings validated that the patient was remembered, helped families feel less alone during a time of grief, honored the loved one's life, and enhanced connections between family members and clinicians.