This edition sees the second anniversary of the first publication of best evidence topic reports (BETs) from Manchester Royal Infirmary,¹ the publication of the first ever “guest” BETs and the launch of the bestbets web site.

The BETs were designed in 1997 as a method for appraising real clinical questions using published evidence.² The BETs were never meant to be systematic reviews. They are a method of evidence retrieval, evaluation and collation easily achievable by busy emergency physicians. Although originally used to influence practice locally, publication in the JAEM has disseminated the information to a much wider audience. The BETs were based on the critically appraised topics (CATs) developed by Sackett et al.^{3, 4} CATs usually use one or two high quality papers to answer a specific question; this approach has been adopted in other …