Ensuring scientific rigor: essential recommendations on how to identify prior evidence in medicine

• Israel Júnior Borges do Nascimento,
• Genevieve Deeken,
• Ana Beatriz Pizarro

Affiliations

Israel Júnior Borges do Nascimento

Division of Country Health Policies and Systems (CPS), World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark; Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques (CRESS), Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, INRAE, INSERM, Paris, 75004, France; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53226-3522, USA; Corresponding author. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Genevieve Deeken

Department of Global Public Health-Global Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; Epidémiologie des Cancers de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent (EPICEA), Hôpital Paul Brosse AP-HP, Villejuif, 94800, France

Ana Beatriz Pizarro

Clinical Research Center, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia; Department of Health Systems, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA