Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To identify any medical or public health rationale for claims that the time to act is now.
DESIGN
Pseudo-systematic review.
DATA SOURCES
PubMed.
STUDY SELECTION
Studies that included the claim “time is now” in the title, with or without exclamation marks. No language or date restriction was applied.
RESULTS
512 articles were included for review. No relationship was identified between time to act and disease burden, severity, or specialty. Claims that the time to act was Christmas were almost entirely without basis. A clustering of claims that it is time to act in the first quarter of the year suggested a possible association with New Year’s resolutions.
CONCLUSIONS
Now is as good a time as any.
