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Thomas Agoritsas
@thomasagoritsas.bsky.social

⚕️Physician & Prof🇨🇭🇬🇷🇫🇷 Geneva University Hospitals • McMasterU 🇨🇦 • Chair of MagicEvidence.org 🌍 • https://www.unige.ch/medecine/demed/recherche/thomas-agoritsas • Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uoVzMm4AAAAJ&hl=en
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Public Health 35%
Economics 20%

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They founded MAGIC over ten years ago to improve how evidence is generated, translated, and used in clinical decisions. The goal was clear: more transparency, more trust, better patient care. Inspiring to see what it has become.
📸: Per Vandvik & @thomasagoritsas.bsky.social

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A #MAGICal conversation between @guyattgh.bsky.social , MAGIC's lead methodologist, and @thomasagoritsas.bsky.social , MAGIC's Board Chair, featured in JAMA Network learning podcast 💥 on #CPG and decision analyses

Don't miss that out!
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15 minute #JAMA podcast in which I interview world authority @thomasagoritsas.bsky.social on how to Use a Patient Management #Recommendations: #ClinicalPracticeGuidelines and #DecisionAnalyses

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Still using Word and PDFs for guidelines 💥 ? In 2025, there’s a better way 🤩
#MAGICapp helps teams move from clunky documents to structured, collaborative guidelines:

Curious if it’s right for you?
👉 Book a demo to learn more: forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...

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Are you developing clinical practice guidelines?

At MAGIC, we’re building tools and collaborations to make evidence-based guidelines more trustworthy and dynamic.

If your team is working on guidelines, we invite you to get to know MAGIC & MAGICapp
Get in touch:
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WHO @who.int · 27d
1 in 3 people is living with neurological condition, such as stroke, epilepsy, migraine, autism.

Despite the number of people with these conditions, those in low- and middle- income countries face the greatest challenges http://bit.ly/4oj81yH

🚨⚕️Enhancing clinical encounters: our new systematic review on how hospitals’ institutional programs could protect or increase the time dedicated to interactions.
It included 117 unique studies comprising 298,517 patients 👇

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations ! Is it available online ?
The BMJ @bmj.com · Oct 9
"Moving beyond the uncomfortable apathy of medical neutrality is the duty of professionals and their organisations."

Where genocide, healthocide, and atrocities start, medical neutrality ends, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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A must-read. So much in there about what matters, and how to preserve it. 🙏

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At MAGIC, we turn the best evidence into trustworthy guidance to improve patient care.

💡 #MAGICapp powers this process — a digital platform to build, publish, and update clinical practice #guidelines.

😎 Backed by a global network of leading methodologists.

magicevidence.org

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“One factor is denial. Those responsible for genocide do not admit to their plans. Allies support their denials. Declassified documents show that US, French, and Belgian officials knew that genocide was occurring in Rwanda and avoided taking action” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Testimony, advocacy, and the public health effect of genocide
Medical community must play its part in ending atrocities In 2000, JAMA published a commentary by Willis and Levy calling for action to ensure recognition of the public health impact of genocide.1 Th...
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At MAGIC, transformation doesn’t come from a single innovation — it comes from innovation + connection.

🔹 MAGICapp: digital infrastructure for living guidance
🔹 Turning evidence into action
🔹 Making sure guidance is used, not just published

📅 See MAGICapp in action → wkf.ms/3W17lBN
A great discussion paper by Montori et al. for @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social.

They warn that surveillance capitalism is reshaping healthcare into a system focused on data rather than people, enabling Big Tech to commodify human experience and consolidate power:

www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
The Un-Mattering of People: The Present and Near-Future of Surveillance Capitalism and the Fate of Care in Healthcare
The encroachment of surveillance capitalism into healthcare takes place as healthcare becomes increasingly industrialized.
www.hks.harvard.edu

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More than 2 decades since GLP-1 drugs were introduced, we still don't know why people with diabetes lose about half as much weight as those without diabetes at the same dose
nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of tirzepatide on weight management in patients with and without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis - International Journal of Obesity
International Journal of Obesity - Effects of tirzepatide on weight management in patients with and without diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
nature.com

“Loosing the information war?
- Get off social media
- Read good books & real journalism
- Find your friends
- And enjoy your life.”
samharris.substack.com/p/we-are-los...
We Are Losing the Information War with Ourselves
If the medium is the message, the message is mass psychosis.
samharris.substack.com
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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5 problems in guideline development — solved with #MAGICapp 😎
✅ Simpler workflow
✅ Real-time collaboration
✅ Always up to date

🔗 Book a demo: forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...
@thomasagoritsas.bsky.social @chrischampion.bsky.social

There are no sides.

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How effective are de-implementation strategies to reduce low value care? Aleksi Raudasoja and colleagues conducted a systematic review and meta analysis to find out. 🧵

Is that so? Sounds nonsensical and rude (particularly when added to a post celebrating a friendship). Good day to you.

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Strategic meetings beteeen MAGIC and WHO to support their clinical practice guidelines
@magicevidence.bsky.social @chrischampion.bsky.social

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Operationalizing trustworthy #AI for #GRADE:
JUDGE turns tacit rating-down into 25 teachable prompts.
SMART-GRADE uses #LLMs + human-in-the-loop for traceable summaries.
Next: expand use cases + benchmarks with guideline panels. #GIN2025
@thomasagoritsas.bsky.social @guyattgh.bsky.social

Privileged time and interactions with the one and only Gordon Guyatt at #GIN2025 in Geneva, with gratitude for the work and friendship 🙏
@magicevidence.bsky.social @guyattgh.bsky.social

Wonderful presentation Prashanti! Thanks for all your beautiful work!

Meeting long-known friends and colleagues Yuqing MadisonZhang and Pablo Alonso #GIN2025 conference in Geneva @magicevidence.bsky.social @gincomms.bsky.social

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Coming up at #GIN2025 (Thursday 1h35pm room E): Prashanti Eachempati will present 2 big steps for #AI + GRADE 🚀
👉 JUDGE – 25 questions to justify rating down certainty
👉 SMART-GRADE – our LLM-powered tool to automate GRADE

Led by MAGIC with McMaster HEI . Come stop by!
@thomasagoritsas.bsky.social

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@guyattgh.bsky.social on the core GRADE approach (BMJ) at #GIN2025
Simplifying GRADE is key to wider use—making it practical and accessible without compromising rigor.
At MAGIC, we see this balance as essential for evidence-based decisions that truly reach practice.
@thomasagoritsas.bsky.social

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MAGIC at BE-SAFE in Warsaw 🇵🇱
Our colleagues @thomasagoritsas.bsky.social , Valerie & Sumanth joined the 4th #BESAFE Consortium Meeting, sharing updates and working on deprescribing #benzodiazepines guidelines.

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