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- PhD Medical Sciences University of Oxford
- Masters Evidence-Based Health Care University of Oxford
- Bachelors Biomedical Sciences University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jeremy Howick is a Canadian-born, British residing clinical epidemiologist and philosopher of science. He researches evidence-based medicine, clinical empathy and the philosophy of medicine, including the use of placebos in clinical practice and clinical trials. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers, as well as two books, The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine in 2011, and Doctor You in 2017. In 2016, he received the Dawkins & Strutt grant from the British Medical Association to study pain treatment. He publishes in Philosophy of Medicine and medical journals. He is a member of the Sigma Xi research honours society.
Jeremy Howick's Published Works
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- Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis? (2014) (1417)
- Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus (2018) (249)
- Understanding GRADE: an introduction (2013) (224)
- The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine: Howick/The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine (2011) (222)
- The Need for Randomization in Animal Trials: An Overview of Systematic Reviews (2014) (195)
- The evolution of evidence hierarchies: what can Bradford Hill's ‘guidelines for causation’ contribute? (2009) (194)
- Current and future use of point-of-care tests in primary care: an international survey in Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA (2014) (182)
- Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults and children. (2014) (170)
- Effects of empathic and positive communication in healthcare consultations: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018) (159)
- The importance of values in evidence-based medicine (2015) (157)
- How evidence-based medicine is failing due to biased trials and selective publication. (2014) (155)
- Effects of placebos without deception compared with no treatment: A systematic review and meta‐analysis (2017) (136)
- Placebo Use in the United Kingdom: Results from a National Survey of Primary Care Practitioners (2013) (133)
- Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine (2011) (133)
- Are Treatments More Effective than Placebos? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2013) (115)
- Oxford Centre for Evidence‐Based Medicine 2011 Levels of Evidence ‐ Traduction française (2012) (110)
- Primary care clinicians’ attitudes towards point-of-care blood testing: a systematic review of qualitative studies (2013) (92)
- How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys (2017) (87)
- Evidence-based mechanistic reasoning (2010) (85)
- Neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis of regulatory and mortality data. (2016) (81)
- Questioning the Methodologic Superiority of ‘Placebo’ Over ‘Active’ Controlled Trials (2009) (72)
- Exposing the Vanities—and a Qualified Defense—of Mechanistic Reasoning in Health Care Decision Making (2011) (69)
- The effect of patient–practitioner communication on pain: a systematic review (2016) (67)
- Placebos Without Deception: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Ethics. (2018) (63)
- Problems with using mechanisms to solve the problem of extrapolation (2013) (60)
- What's in Placebos: Who Knows? Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials (2010) (60)
- Call for Action to Address Equity and Justice Divide During COVID-19 (2020) (56)
- The relativity of ‘placebos’: defending a modified version of Grünbaum’s definition (2017) (54)
- The evidence underpinning sports performance products: a systematic assessment (2012) (45)
- Point-of-care testing in UK primary care: a survey to establish clinical needs (2016) (42)
- Evidence-based policy: Where is our theory of evidence? (2010) (42)
- Effects of theophylline on inhaled methacholine and histamine in asthmatic children. (1984) (41)
- Foundations for evidence-based intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (2016) (39)
- TIDieR-Placebo: A guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls (2020) (34)
- Rapid overview of systematic reviews of nocebo effects reported by patients taking placebos in clinical trials (2018) (32)
- What Should Clinicians Tell Patients about Placebo and Nocebo Effects? Practical Considerations Based on Expert Consensus (2020) (30)
- Establishing a causal link between social relationships and health using the Bradford Hill Guidelines (2019) (30)
- Therapeutic empathy: what it is and what it isn't (2018) (25)
- How Do Nocebo Phenomena Provide a Theoretical Framework for the COVID-19 Pandemic? (2020) (23)
- Assessing the effect of empathy-enhancing interventions in health education and training: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials (2020) (22)
- The evidence for cognitive behavioural therapy in any condition, population or context: a meta-review of systematic reviews and panoramic meta-analysis (2021) (20)
- Placebo use in the UK: a qualitative study exploring GPs' views on placebo effects in clinical practice. (2014) (20)
- Overthrowing barriers to empathy in healthcare: empathy in the age of the Internet (2017) (19)
- Can understanding mechanisms solve the problem of extrapolating from study to target populations (the problem of ‘external validity’)? (2013) (18)
- Homeopathy for Allergic Rhinitis: A Systematic Review. (2017) (18)
- European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology (2020) (16)
- Mythbusting sports and exercise products (2012) (16)
- How placebo characteristics can influence estimates of intervention effects in trials (2018) (15)
- Effects of placebos without deception compared with no treatment: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015) (15)
- Improving Empathy in Healthcare Consultations—a Secondary Analysis of Interventions (2020) (14)
- Problematic placebos in physical therapy trials. (2016) (14)
- Sustained-release theophylline. Pharmacokinetic and therapeutic comparison of two preparations. (1983) (14)
- Exploring the Asymmetrical Relationship Between the Power of Finance Bias and Evidence (2019) (12)
- Saying Things the “Right” Way: Avoiding “Nocebo” Effects and Providing Full Informed Consent (2012) (11)
- A price tag on clinical empathy? Factors influencing its cost-effectiveness (2020) (11)
- Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2022) (11)
- The quality of evidence for medical interventions does not improve or worsen: a Meta-Epidemiological Study of Cochrane Reviews. (2020) (10)
- Duration of Protection After Vaccination Against Yellow Fever: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2022) (10)
- Research gaps in the philosophy of evidence‐based medicine (2016) (10)
- A discursive exploration of public perspectives on placebos and their effects (2019) (10)
- The friendly relationship between therapeutic empathy and person-centered care (2019) (9)
- Point of care testing in family practice: common myths debunked. (2016) (9)
- Escaping from placebo prison (2009) (8)
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy for a variety of conditions: an overview of systematic reviews and panoramic meta-analysis. (2021) (8)
- Effectiveness of cognitive–behavioural therapy: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (2018) (8)
- Health and Gender Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adverse Impacts on Women's Health, Wealth and Social Welfare (2021) (7)
- Response to ’Position statement on ethics, equipoise and research on charged particle therapy‘ (2014) (7)
- In search of justification for the unpredictability paradox (2014) (7)
- Homeopathy for allergic rhinitis: protocol for a systematic review (2014) (7)
- Inadequate description of placebo and sham controls in a systematic review of recent trials (2019) (7)
- Exploring patient views of empathic optimistic communication for osteoarthritis in primary care: a qualitative interview study using vignettes (2021) (7)
- Empirical evidence against placebo controls (2017) (7)
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus and ‘empirical’ and ‘dogmatic’ medicine (2016) (7)
- Effectiveness of interventions to maintain physical activity behavior (device‐measured): Systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials (2021) (6)
- Unethical informed consent caused by overlooking poorly measured nocebo effects (2020) (6)
- Randomized trials and observational studies: The current philosophical controversy (2015) (5)
- What is Good Evidence for a Clinical Decision (2011) (5)
- Effects of changing practitioner empathy and patient expectations in healthcare consultations (2017) (5)
- Correction: Are Treatments More Effective than Placebos? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2016) (5)
- Mindfulness-based programmes to reduce stress and enhance well-being at work: a realist review (2021) (4)
- Experiences of empathy training in healthcare: A systematic review of qualitative studies. (2022) (4)
- An Empathy Imitation Game: Empathy Turing Test for Care- and Chat-bots (2021) (4)
- Measuring the success of blinding in placebo-controlled trials: should we be so quick to dismiss it? (2021) (4)
- Positive messages may reduce patient pain: A meta-analysis (2017) (4)
- 167 Absorption characteristics of a new sustained-release theophylline (SRT) sprinkle for infants and young children (1983) (4)
- Anatomy of positive messages in healthcare consultations: component analysis of messages within 22 randomised trials (2020) (4)
- Patient and practitioner priorities and concerns about primary healthcare interactions for osteoarthritis: A meta-ethnography. (2022) (4)
- If Children Understand Drawing Straws and Flipping Coins, Research Participants Can Understand Randomization (2009) (3)
- Reviewing the Unsubstantiated Claims for the Methodological Superiority of ‘Placebo’ over ‘Active’ Controlled Trials: Reply to Open Peer Commentaries (2009) (3)
- Philosophical essentials in evidence-based medicine: Evaluating the epistemological role of double blinding and placebo controls. (2008) (3)
- Tackling statin intolerance with n-of-1 trials (TaSINI) in primary care: protocol for a feasibility randomised trial to increase statin adherence (2019) (3)
- Do overly complex reporting guidelines remove the focus from good clinical trials? (2021) (3)
- Do medical schools teach medical humanities? Review of curricula in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. (2021) (3)
- Philosophy of too much medicine conference report. (2018) (3)
- Harnessing Placebo Effects in Primary Care: Using the Person-Based Approach to Develop an Online Intervention to Enhance Practitioners' Communication of Clinical Empathy and Realistic Optimism During Consultations (2021) (3)
- Technology: a help or hindrance to empathic healthcare? (2018) (3)
- Personalised healthcare and population healthcare (2018) (3)
- Comparison of the effects of intravenously administered aminophylline and inhaled isoproterenol on normal airways. (1986) (3)
- Stats.con: Book review (2011) (3)
- Did John Stuart Mill influence the design of controlled clinical trials? (2019) (3)
- Neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza complications (2014) (3)
- Against A Priori Judgements of Bad Methodology: Questioning Double-Blinding as a Universal Methodological Virtue of Clinical Trials (2008) (2)
- How do they add up? The interaction between the placebo and treatment effect: A systematic review (2021) (2)
- A Qualified Defence of the EBM Stance on Mechanistic Reasoning (2011) (2)
- An Empathy Imitation Game: Empathy Turing Test for Care- and Chat-bots (2021) (1)
- How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys (2017) (1)
- Empathy in patient-clinician interactions when using telecommunication: A rapid review of the evidence (2022) (1)
- Clinician views on optimism and empathy in primary care consultations: a qualitative interview study (2022) (1)
- Measuring Placebo Effects (2016) (1)
- Developing Core Principles for Sharing Information about Potential Intervention Benefits and Harms in Patient Information Leaflets Using a Modified Delphi Survey (2021) (1)
- Adding a dose of empathy to healthcare: What can healthcare systems do? (2022) (1)
- Knowledge that Versus Knowledge how: Situating the EBM Position on Expert Clinical Judgment (2011) (1)
- Why might medical student empathy change throughout medical school? a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies (2023) (1)
- Unblinded and Blinded N-of-1 Trials Versus Usual Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase Statin Uptake in Primary Care (2022) (1)
- Resolving the Paradox of Effectiveness: When do Observational Studies Offer the Same Degree of Evidential Support as Randomized Trials? (2011) (1)
- Ruling out Plausible Rival Hypotheses and Confounding Factors: A Method (2011) (1)
- How can empathy be conveyed in the absence of face-to-face contact? A rapid review of empathy experiences in telephone consultation (2022) (1)
- [Therapeutic efficacy. Between scientific medicine and healthcare medicine]. (2016) (1)
- 53 Empirical evidence against placebo controls (2018) (1)
- Why it can be ethical to use placebos in clinical practice (2017) (1)
- “Consensus on Placebo and Nocebo Effects Connects Science with Practice:” Reply to “Questioning the Consensus on Placebo and Nocebo Effects” (2021) (1)
- Why might medical student empathy change throughout medical school? Protocol for a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies (2022) (1)
- Most Healthcare Interventions Tested in Cochrane Reviews are Not Effective According to High Quality Evidence: A Meta-Epidemiological Study (2022) (1)
- Turning diversity from a barrier to a facilitator of empathy in health care. (2022) (1)
- Moving EBM Forward (2011) (1)
- Effect of oseltamivir on mortality in patients with 2009A/H1N1 influenza: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis of observational studies (2016) (0)
- BBC Horizon placebo back pain study: a public trial of the effectiveness of placebos (2020) (0)
- Example of contents of a Clinical Study Report (from p. 1 of WV15670 report) (2016) (0)
- Positive “framing” as a powerful medication for pain: A meta-analysis of randomized trials (2016) (0)
- Post-protocol hypotheses: methods and results (2016) (0)
- Searches for regulatory information (2016) (0)
- The first center for evidence‐based medicine in Lithuania: an opportunity to change culture and improve clinical practice (2015) (0)
- The story of A159 (2016) (0)
- Symptomatic influenza-like illness in prophylaxis trials (2016) (0)
- Template of letter sent to corresponding authors of included studies (2016) (0)
- Patient perspectives of positive messages from clinicians: a qualitative secondary analysis and conceptual model. (2023) (0)
- Comparative Effectiveness of Placebos and Treatments: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2013) (0)
- Oral Azacitidine for Maintenance Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia After Induction Therapy: An Evidence Review Group Perspective of a NICE Single Technology Appraisal. (2023) (0)
- Prevalence of Medical Humanities Teaching in Medical Schools: Review of Curricula in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom (2021) (0)
- Illustration of time-dependent bias using individual patient data from the Canadian study (2016) (0)
- Rethinking randomized controlled trials (2008) (0)
- Applying inclusion criteria for the A159 2012 review (2016) (0)
- Double Blinding: Methodological Risks of Being in the Dark (2009) (0)
- Pralsetinib for RET Fusion-Positive Advanced Non-small-Cell Lung Cancer: An Evidence Review Group Perspective of a NICE Single Technology Appraisal (2023) (0)
- Why include humanities in medical studies: comment (2019) (0)
- Authors’ reply to Betts, Stokes, and Kleiner (2012) (0)
- Patient perceptions of empathy in primary care telephone consultations: A mixed methods study. (2023) (0)
- bmjopen final article (2016) (0)
- Stage 1 of the 2012 A159 review (2016) (0)
- Inadequate description of placebo and sham controls in a review of recent trials (2020) (0)
- A multiple-dose, crossover comparison of two sustained-release theophylline tablets in asthmatic children (1982) (0)
- What is EBM (2011) (0)
- The Selfish Meme (Book Review) (2009) (0)
- The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine (forthcoming 2010) (2009) (0)
- Tamiflu (oseltamivir) clinical study reports (2014) (0)
- Reasons for exclusion of studies based on full manuscripts (2016) (0)
- Placebo Controls: Problematic and Misleading Baseline Measures of Effectiveness (2011) (0)
- Modified Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials statement-based extraction template for clinical study reports (2016) (0)
- Compliharms: events alternatively recorded as complications or harms (2016) (0)
- The moral role of clinical empathy in patient healthcare (2023) (0)
- Placebo use is common. Is it also ethical (2013) (0)
- Problems with using mechanisms to solve the problem of extrapolation (2013) (0)
- The relativity of ‘placebos’: defending a modified version of Grünbaum’s definition (2016) (0)
- PRESENTING EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTIONS AND MORE: THE EVIDENCE OF EFFECTS PAGE (2014) (0)
- Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine - Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies - (2015) (0)
- The importance of values in evidence-based medicine (2015) (0)
- A survey of clinical empathy training at UK medical schools (2023) (0)
- Clarification from EFSA reply (2012) (0)
- Airway pharmacology of theophylline in asthmatic children (1982) (0)
- Questioning Double Blinding as a Universal Methodological Virtue of Clinical Trials: Resolving the Philip's Paradox (2011) (0)
- Oseltamivir observational studies review search strategies (2016) (0)
- Transition to Part III (2011) (0)
- Searches of the electronic databases (2016) (0)
- The Use of Mindfulness and Acupuncture in the American Military (2017) (0)
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