Professionals
Learn more about how the content for professionals is selected, evaluated and presented for clinicians, public health professionals, health-system policymakers, and social-system policymakers.
Clinician
A physician caring for an 80-year-old healthy man can use her mobile device to check whether there’s any strong evidence that vitamins can improve longevity (knowing that she needed the best available, synthesized research evidence in the world, and not just the latest study that had appeared on the evening news and attracted her patient’s attention).
Public health professional
Public health nurses who are part of an injury prevention team within a city health department have noted a high rate of falls in their community. They can easily search for pre-appraised evidence on the effectiveness of various strategies to find out which ones work best to reduce falls.
Health-system Policymaker
A policymaker tasked with identifying what types of home visits increase the chance that elderly citizens can remain living in their homes for longer can ask an assistant to quickly retrieve the best available research evidence on the topic.
Social-system Policymaker
A policymaker tasked with identifying how to support civic engagement among elderly citizens can ask an assistant to quickly retrieve the best available research evidence on the topic.
Popular articles
Here is a list of the Portal's articles that were most read by professionals during the past 30 days. You must be logged in to read the articles.
Clinicians
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Mirtazapine for chronic insomnia in older adults: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial-the MIRAGE study.
Age Ageing (2025) -
Effect of invitation to colonoscopy versus faecal immunochemical test screening on colorectal cancer mortality (COLONPREV): a pragmatic, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial.
Lancet (2025)
Public health professionals
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Liquid based cytology and human papillomavirus testing in cervical cancer screening
Canadian Coordinating Office For Health Technology Assessment (2003) -
Effects of guaranteed basic income interventions on poverty-related outcomes in high-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Campbell Systematic Reviews (2024)
Health-systems policymakers
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Social-systems policymakers
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