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Showing 1 to 20 of 253 for “"systematic reviews"”.
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Setting priorities for conducting and updating systematic reviews
Abstract Systematic reviews - appraisal and synthesis of all primary research - are increasingly being used to inform policy and practice in health care. Therefore, it is important to understand how the key questions in systematic reviews are identified and prioritised and whether they are relevant …
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Methods for Exploring Heterogeneity in Systematic Reviews of Randomized Controlled Trials
… for investigating clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews of controlled clinical trials and though there is minimal consensus some recommendations are common across sources. Finally, the third project found that permutation tests result in more conservative, larger, p-values potentially …
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Overcoming Challenges in Randomised Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews in Periodontal Research
… experienced in randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in periodontal research. The narrative review provides an overview of the current understanding of the aetiopathogenesis and epidemiology of periodontal disease as well as a description of the prevention and management treatment …
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COVID-19 Therapeutics – A landscape analysis using systematic reviews and clinical data
… for emergency use by relying on high quality systematic reviews as guided by the AMSTAR-2 tool and/or latest clinical evidence if no systematic reviews are available. Lastly, we discuss pressing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and provide conclusions and recommendations for future work.
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The Application of the Literature Review Appraisal Toolkit on Environmental Health Systematic Reviews
<p>Environmental health systematic reviews have long been of poor quality when comparing them to clinical health systematic reviews. The main reason for the poor quality of environmental health systematic reviews is the lack of a specific protocol. The University of California-San Francisco’s …
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Accuracy of tests for predicting spontaneous preterm birth: Systematic reviews of diagnostic research
… symptoms of threatened preterm labour, using systematic reviews and meta-analysis. If women at risk can be identified whether early in pregnancy or when they present with threatened preterm labour, interventions can be deployed to prevent or delay birth and to improve subsequent neonatal …
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Assessing quality in systematic reviews of the effectiveness of health promotion: areas of consensus and dissension
Systematic reviews have played an increasingly important role in health promotion in recent<br/>years. Yet there are debates about how they should be conducted, particularly about how the<br/>quality of evidence should be assessed. The aim of this research was to assess current<br/>approaches to, …
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Health technology assessment in maternal and perinatal medicine: delphi survey of practice, systematic reviews of evidence and meta analyses
… into 4 sections: Delphi survey of practice; Systematic review of reviews; Systematic reviews of therapeutic effectiveness; Systematic reviews of test accuracy Results The Delphi survey identified blood pressure to be the best predictor of complications. A significant benefit of progestational …
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Prediction and prevention of fetal growth restriction and compromise of fetal wellbeing: systematic reviews and meta-analyses with model based economic evaluation.
Restriction of fetal growth and compromise of its wellbeing remain significant causes of perinatal death and childhood disability. There is a lack of scientific consensus about the best strategies for predicting these conditions before birth and thus there is uncertainty about the best management …
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Sequential short-text classification with neural networks
… do not have the time to perform literature reviews. Systematic reviews aim at summarizing published medical evidence, but writing them requires tremendous human efforts. In this thesis, we propose several natural language processing methods based on artificial neural networks to facilitate …
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The Development and Pilot Test of a Shortened Systematic Review Format For Use By Physicians
… refining the methods of conducting and reporting systematic reviews, however they are used infrequently by practitioners in making clinical decisions. Contextualization, format, and presentation of systematic reviews have been given little attention in the literature thus leaving a gap in what is …
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A Multi-methods Approach to Build Evidence-Based Practice for Using Silver Diamine Fluoride for Managing Carious Lesions in Children
… Five electronic databases were searched for Systematic Reviews investigating SDF for carious lesions prevention or arrest (1970-2018) without language restrictions. Systematic reviews were selected, data extracted, and risk of bias assessed using (Risk Of Bias In Systematic reviews) ROBIS …
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Methodological challenges in the evidence synthesis of health outcomes of digital health technologies
… or digestible digital devices. Since the 1970s, systematic reviews and meta-analyses have dominated medical evidence synthesis. They provide medical decision-making evidence. To avoid biases and maintain methodological quality, the Cochrane Handbook recommends systematic reviews follow certain …
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An umbrella review of the available evidence syntheses to inform vaccination practices and policies for the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
… practices and policies in Africa. Methods: A systematic search for scoping reviews, systematic reviews, rapid reviews, and meta-analyses was performed in PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, Scopus (EMBASE), Epistemonikos and The Cochrane Library. Search outputs were exported to Rayyan software for …
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The development of an evidence-based conceptual framework for undergraduate nursing curricula in Sri Lanka.
… This study has involved conducting critical reviews of literature, two systematic reviews, developing a draft conceptual framework, testing its appropriateness and feasibility with key stakeholders (nursing academics, administrators, clinicians) via focus group discussions in Sri Lanka, and …
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Developing and evaluating a collaborative care intervention for depression
… medicine to this challenge and briefly reviews the commonly used tools of evidence-based medicine (such as systematic reviews and clinical guidelines). The origins of the collaborative care model in the treatment of chronic physical health problems are then reviewed to provide a context …
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Overcoming Avoidable Research Waste in Carious Lesion Management Research
… Controlled Trials) and secondary research (Systematic reviews) can be addressed to contribute to the building of an effective and efficient evidence ecosystem.<br/> <br/>A systematic assessment of relevant systematic reviews (SRs) is presented in chapter 3. This chapter highlights the …
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A study of the development of frameworks of pharmacist prescribing in Qatar.
… first phase was an umbrella review of published systematic reviews on non-medical prescribing. Seven systematic reviews reported aspects of prescribing decision-making, processes of prescribing, barriers, and facilitators to implementation. Three of the reviews explored patient outcomes that were …
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Resilience, professional quality of life and coping mechanisms in doctors and medical students
… groups. <br/><br/>The thesis begins with two systematic reviews. These systematic reviews of published literature on resilience specifically investigate factors that have been shown to influence resilience levels in doctors and medical students. Following this, a mixed methodology national …
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Efeitos da suplementação de probióticos nos parâmetros antropométricos de pacientes com Diabetes Mellitus 2: uma revisão sistemática e meta-análise
… with probiotics. This study aimed to systematically review the scientific evidence on the effects of probiotic supplementation on the anthropometric parameters of patients with DM2. The review was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and …
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