Rafael Perera

TL;DR: The TIDieR checklist and guide should improve the reporting of interventions and make it easier for authors to structure accounts of their interventions, reviewers and editors to assess the descriptions, and readers to use the information.

TL;DR: A range of clinical factors associated with COVID-19-related death is quantified in one of the largest cohort studies on this topic so far and includes people of white ethnicity, Black and South Asian people were at higher risk, even after adjustment for other factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of different forms of nicotine replacement therapy (chewing gum, transdermal patches, nasal spray, inhalers and tablets) in achieving abstinence from cigarettes, or a sustained reduction in amount smoked; to determine whether the effect is influenced by the clinical setting in which the smoker is recruited and treated, the dosage and form of the NRT used, or the intensity of additional advice and support offered to the smoker.

TL;DR: The TIDieR checklist and guide as mentioned in this paper is an extension of the CONSORT 2010 statement (item 5) and the SPIRIT 2013 statement, and is intended to improve the reporting of interventions and make it easier for authors to structure accounts of their interventions.

TL;DR: The outcome for benefit is continuous or prolonged abstinence at least six months from the start of treatment, and the outcome for harms is the incidence of serious adverse events associated with each of the treatments.