David Hohenschurz-Schmidt

2026 World Congress on pain Topical Workshops

The submission period for 2026 #WorldCongressOnPain Topical Workshops is only open through 15 Oct 2025.

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Write Your Abstracts Carefully - The Impact of Abstract Reporting Quality on Findability by Semi-Automated Title-Abstract Screening Tools - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Congrats, Harrison! Great job.

September is Pain Awareness Month. We’ll be highlighting content from #PAIN related to weekly themes—stay tuned as we share more throughout the month.

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Deliberately adding a few unusual twists to my application cover letters. Just making sure a well-written document doesn't create suspicions of AI use. 🤓

Serious question: What’s the point of making the reference list part of the word / page limit?

Did you have a chance to catch @davidhosch.bsky.social, @neiloconnell.bsky.social, @jdwilko.bsky.social, @nadiasoliman.bsky.social, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social discuss “trustworthiness” in clinical trial data? Watch the recording here bit.ly/4luQVMS

The fact that even the most recent #CONSORT reporting guideline still uses grandad’s self designed MS Word flow diagram as official template is beyond me.

Happy box-juggling with anything that's not a 2-armed, single time point study! 🤡

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Have you wanted to understand what is meant by “trustworthy” research? Attend this #webinar where @davidhosch.bsky.social, @neiloconnell.bsky.social, @jdwilko.bsky.social, @nadiasoliman.bsky.social, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, and more outline how to produce reliable evidence bit.ly/44GBtGP

21 July PRF Webinar

Have you wanted to understand what is meant by “trustworthy” research? Attend this #webinar where @davidhosch.bsky.social, @neiloconnell.bsky.social, @jdwilko.bsky.social, @nadiasoliman.bsky.social, @lesleyuttley.bsky.social, and more outline how to produce reliable evidence bit.ly/44GBtGP

…but means for editors that one inevitably ends up with manuscripts one barely understands- making finding reviewers even harder than normal. I try to pre-select carefully what I handle, but suspect this partially explains your observation of mixed quality.

Well observed! As one of their editors, I rarely use the automated reviewer suggestions as I found them not useful.
Still, methods are such a broad field and BMC MRM does not triage based on suspected impact - ie they also send out quite niche stuff for review. That’s great about the journal…

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In this week’s #PAIN Featured Image, @laurasirucek.bsky.social‬ et al. present clinical evidence for altered amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)-PAG connectivity patterns in chronic pain and potential consequences for PAG-driven descending pain inhibition bit.ly/4l2P2H1

Lovely to see our recent trustworthiness paper included here! ☺️

With @neiloconnell.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @nadiasoliman.bsky.social @lesleyuttley.bsky.social and more!

Curious about trust in trials?

FREE webinar: 21 July, 3pm UK, exploring what makes research trustworthy.

Hosted by @iasp.bsky.social PRF & supported by the @jclinepi.bsky.social

👥 Speakers are leading trust and integrity researchers and journal editors.

💬 Plus live Q&A!

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On a course on complex intervention development:

⚠️☠️ Serious risk of Death By Guidelines!

Lay project summary: ✅

You enter academia, worried if you can master the intellectual challenges, the pressure, the funding limitations. A few years in and your principal foe is the Word Limit!

A multimodal intervention of manual therapy, exercise, and psychological management for painful diabetic neuropathy: intervention development and feasibility trial protocol Therapeutic options for people experiencing neuropathic pain from diabetic peripheral neuropathy are limited, and impact can be severe. Physical and psychological interventions remain under-explore...

Delighted to share our first paper on the NeuOst intervention 😊

I’ve grown very passionate about this integrated physical and psychological approach for people w/ painful diabetic neuropathy.
...Results are coming soon!

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Funder and authors’ financial conflicts of interest information in trial publications: adequacy of reporting and obtaining missing information - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

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Just got a manuscript back from a journal: 3 very manageable comments from reviewers - and 28 (!) from the editor about formatting and gimmicks like highlights etc…

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Alignment between the research question, design and terminology is required in manual therapy trials - a methodological study. - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

New Publication 📣: Alignment between the research question, design and terminology is required in manual therapy trials - a methodological study by Roura, Alvarex, @davidhosch.bsky.social et al in
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Investigating the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials in osteopathic research: a systematic review with meta-analysis To systematically investigate trustworthiness (methodological rigor, transparency, good governance, research integrity, and absence of misconduct) in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of osteopathic...

New Publication 🔊: Investigating the trustworthiness of randomized controlled trials in osteopathic research: a systematic review with meta-analysis by @davidhosch.bsky.social et al in
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Journal investigating placebo effect study following Retraction Watch inquiry An Elsevier journal is investigating a paper by a controversial author after a Retraction Watch inquiry about the article. The article concluded that “placebo effects have a significant impact on o…

Journal investigating placebo effect study following Retraction Watch inquiry into work @gidmk.bsky.social called "bizarre"

Interesting article suggesting the influence of predatory journal publications on back pain clinical practice guidelines isn’t huge:

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Huge congratulations! Fantastic news!