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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L'UE examine l'Initiative citoyenne européenne (ICE) visant à interdire les "thérapies de conversion" dans toute l'Europe. Les prochains mois sont essentiels – assurons-nous qu'elle agisse. J'ai signé. Rejoignez-moi 👉 a.allout.org/s/OJyE5/
Interdisons les « thérapies de conversion » dans l’UE !
L’UE examine l’Initiative citoyenne européenne (ICE) visant à interdire les “thérapies de conversion” dans toute l’Europe. Les prochains mois seront décisifs : agiront-ils vraiment ou détourneront-ils...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
L'UE examine l'Initiative citoyenne européenne (ICE) visant à interdire les "thérapies de conversion" dans toute l'Europe. Les prochains mois sont essentiels – assurons-nous qu'elle agisse. J'ai signé. Rejoignez-moi 👉 a.allout.org/s/OJyE5/
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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
📸: Per Vandvik & @thomasagoritsas.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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
📸: Per Vandvik & @thomasagoritsas.bsky.social
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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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October 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...
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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!
edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...
Don't miss that out!
edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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!
edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...
Don't miss that out!
edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...
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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
🔹 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
October 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
🔹 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
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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:
forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...
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:
forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...
October 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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:
forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...
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:
forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...
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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
💡 #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
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
💡 #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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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...
#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...
October 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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...
#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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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
Despite the number of people with these conditions, those in low- and middle- income countries face the greatest challenges http://bit.ly/4oj81yH
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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
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...
It included 117 unique studies comprising 298,517 patients 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨⚕️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...
It included 117 unique studies comprising 298,517 patients 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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"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/...
Where genocide, healthocide, and atrocities start, medical neutrality ends, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"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/...
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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“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...
www.bmj.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“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/...
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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...
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
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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...
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...
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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...
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
September 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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...
nature.com/articles/s41...
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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?
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?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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?
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?
“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...
- 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
September 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“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...
- Get off social media
- Read good books & real journalism
- Find your friends
- And enjoy your life.”
samharris.substack.com/p/we-are-los...
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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
✅ Simpler workflow
✅ Real-time collaboration
✅ Always up to date
🔗 Book a demo: forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...
@thomasagoritsas.bsky.social @chrischampion.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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
✅ Simpler workflow
✅ Real-time collaboration
✅ Always up to date
🔗 Book a demo: forms.monday.com/forms/baaf06...
@thomasagoritsas.bsky.social @chrischampion.bsky.social
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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. 🧵
September 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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. 🧵
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Distinguishing the Difference Between Curing and Caring When Treating Patients | NEJM Catalyst catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @patientrevolution.org
Distinguishing the Difference Between Curing and Caring When Treating Patients
Dr. Victor Montori, MD, MSc, Robert H. and Susan M. Rewoldt Professor of Medicine
and leader of the Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) Unit at the Mayo Clinic
and Co-Founder of The Patient Rev...
catalyst.nejm.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Distinguishing the Difference Between Curing and Caring When Treating Patients | NEJM Catalyst catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @patientrevolution.org
Strategic meetings beteeen MAGIC and WHO to support their clinical practice guidelines
@magicevidence.bsky.social @chrischampion.bsky.social
@magicevidence.bsky.social @chrischampion.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Strategic meetings beteeen MAGIC and WHO to support their clinical practice guidelines
@magicevidence.bsky.social @chrischampion.bsky.social
@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
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
September 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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
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
@magicevidence.bsky.social @guyattgh.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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
@magicevidence.bsky.social @guyattgh.bsky.social
Meeting long-known friends and colleagues Yuqing MadisonZhang and Pablo Alonso #GIN2025 conference in Geneva @magicevidence.bsky.social @gincomms.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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
👉 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
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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
👉 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
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
September 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
@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
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