Thamer Ba Dhafari, Alexander Pate, Glen P. Martin, James Rafferty, Farideh Jalali-najafabadi, Marlous Hall, Niels Peek
{"title":"Author reply to Holm et al., “On the importance of multiple aspects of cluster validation in multimorbidity research”","authors":"Thamer Ba Dhafari, Alexander Pate, Glen P. Martin, James Rafferty, Farideh Jalali-najafabadi, Marlous Hall, Niels Peek","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 112378"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESIC Series: Paper 6 Advancing methods and process innovation for evidence synthesis: recommendations from the evidence synthesis infrastructure collaborative working group 4.","authors":"Solange Durao, Fiona Campbell, Tari Turner, Luciane Cruz Lopes","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112475","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>To identify and prioritize opportunities to strengthen methodological and process innovation in global evidence synthesis, ensuring timely, equitable, and high-quality syntheses that can inform decision-making across sectors.The Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative (ESIC) was established to optimize global capacity for producing and using living evidence syntheses. Working Group 4 (WG4) focused on developing scalable, equitable, and context-sensitive methods to make evidence synthesis \"radically more timely, relevant, and affordable.\"</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>WG4 applied the UK Design Council's Double Diamond framework for Innovation through a 6-month, multiphase process involving 19 members from 12 countries. Methods included virtual workshops, surveys, interviews, and public consultations to map and assess the maturity level of capabilities across the evidence synthesis lifecycle. Solutions were prioritized using benefit-impact-effort criteria.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Nine key capability gaps were identified, including limited coordination, inconsistent quality assurance, inequitable access to data, and insufficient cross-sector integration. Seventy-six potential solutions were generated, of which eleven were prioritized under the AACC framework: Access, Agility, Context, and Connections, such as establishing evidence support units, shared quality and certainty-of-evidence standards, mechanisms to improve equitable access to data and synthesis capacity in low-resource settings, and a global academy for evidence synthesis. The process highlighted strong alignment between WG4's recommendations and other ESIC working groups, underscoring a shared global vision. Challenges included limited consultation time and linguistic and contextual diversity across regions, though overall engagement was broad and constructive.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A coordinated, equitable infrastructure for evidence synthesis, grounded in methodological rigor, inclusivity, explicit assessment of certainty and applicability of evidence, and responsiveness is essential to ensure evidence remains credible, accessible, and actionable for global policy and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":" ","pages":"112475"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors’ Choice August 2026","authors":"David Tovey, Andrea C. Tricco","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 112403"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148609903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to: Swieczkowski D, Kwaśny A, Cubała WJ. Regulatory context for protocol amendments and public reporting in psychedelic trials","authors":"Marija Franka Žuljević, Antonija Mijatović, Renata Orhanović, Glenn Goasdoué, Diana Gujinović","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112312","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 112312"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Damian Swieczkowski, Aleksander Kwaśny, Wiesław Jerzy Cubała
{"title":"Regulatory context for protocol amendments and public reporting in psychedelic trials","authors":"Damian Swieczkowski, Aleksander Kwaśny, Wiesław Jerzy Cubała","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112311","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 112311"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Javier Amaya-Nieto, Andrés Felipe Patiño-Benavidez, Daniela Sánchez-Santiesteban, Giancarlo Buitrago
{"title":"Expanding the debate on real-world evidence: toward an approach focused on complementarity and methodological rigor","authors":"Javier Amaya-Nieto, Andrés Felipe Patiño-Benavidez, Daniela Sánchez-Santiesteban, Giancarlo Buitrago","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112299","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 112299"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-world evidence terminology should not be abandoned","authors":"Rafael Dal-Ré","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112300","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 112300"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the association between potentially inappropriate prescribing and mortality in older adults.","authors":"Jiayuan Yang, Kexin Ye, Jun Ma, Wei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Epidemiology","volume":" ","pages":"112433"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148594146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}