Pauline Heus
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Pauline Heus is a leading researcher in evidence-based medicine and research integrity, whose work bridges the gap between clinical practice and methodological rigor. Her primary research areas include diagnostic accuracy, systematic review methodology, and the detection of questionable research practices in clinical trials. Heus made a major contribution to pulmonary medicine with her landmark 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis on navigation bronchoscopy, which synthesized data on diagnostic yield and safety—a study that has already garnered over 105 citations and serves as a critical resource for clinicians. In a groundbreaking 2022 study examining 163,129 randomized controlled trials, she identified widespread indicators of questionable research practices, including risk of bias in randomization, allocation concealment, and blinding. This work, cited 17 times, has profound implications for research integrity, offering a scalable framework to detect and mitigate bias. Heus’s impact lies in her ability to combine rigorous meta-analytic techniques with large-scale data analysis, producing actionable insights for both clinical decision-making and the improvement of research standards. Her work is essential reading for students and researchers committed to trustworthy evidence.
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