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Establishing a Minimum Dataset for Prospective Registration of Systematic Rev...
BACKGROUND: In response to growing recognition of the value of prospective registration of systematic review protocols, we planned to develop a web-based open access... -
Gestational diabetes mellitus in Africa: a systematic review.
Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is any degree of impaired glucose tolerance first recognised during pregnancy. Most women with GDM revert to normal glucose... -
A Descriptive Analysis of Overviews of Reviews Published between 2000 and 2011
Background Overviews of systematic reviews compile data from multiple systematic reviews (SRs) and are a new method of evidence synthesis. Objectives To describe the... -
Global Epidemiology of Mental Disorders: What Are We Missing?
Background Population-based studies provide the understanding of health-need required for effective public health policy and service-planning. Mental disorders are an... -
The need for randomization in animal trials: an overview of systematic reviews
Background and Objectives: Randomization, allocation concealment, and blind outcome assessment have been shown to reduce bias in human studies. Authors from the Collaborative... -
Comparison of the effects of kilohertz- and low-frequency electric stimulatio...
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine whether kilohertz-frequency alternating current (KFAC) is superior to low-frequency pulsed current (PC) in increasing muscle-evoked... -
What Is New for an Old Molecule? Systematic Review and Recommendations on the...
BACKGROUND:Resveratrol is a natural compound suggested to have beneficial health effects. However, people are consuming resveratrol for this reason without having the adequate... -
Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews in Subfertility: A Comparison of...
Background Systematic reviews are used widely to guide health care decisions. Several tools have been created to assess systematic review quality. The measurement tool for... -
Platelet-rich plasma to treat experimentally-induced skin wounds in animals: ...
The objective of the study was to review current literature to determine whether the topical application of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) promotes healing in experimentally-induced... -
Participant Informed Consent in Cluster Randomized Trials: Review
BACKGROUND: The Nuremberg code defines the general ethical framework of medical research with participant consent as its cornerstone. In cluster randomized trials (CRT),... -
‘We’re passengers sailing in the same ship, but we have our own berths to sle...
Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) is a requirement for UK health and social care research funding. Evidence for how best to implement PPI in research programmes,... -
What Are the Effects of Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC)? Overview ...
BackgroundAn evidence-based approach to health care is recognized internationally as a key competency for healthcare practitioners. This overview systematically evaluated and... -
Addressing Dichotomous Data for Participants Excluded from Trial Analysis: A ...
INTRODUCTION Systematic reviewer authors intending to include all randomized participants in their meta-analyses need to make assumptions about the outcomes of participants with... -
Facilitating healthcare decisions by assessing the certainty in the evidence ...
Laboratory animal studies are used in a wide range of human health related research areas, such as basic biomedical research, drug research, experimental surgery and... -
Association between matrix metalloproteinases polymorphisms and ovarian cance...
Background Published data on the relationship between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk have implicated inconclusive results. To evaluate... -
Authorship Bias in Violence Risk Assessment? A Systematic Review and Meta-Ana...
Various financial and non-financial conflicts of interests have been shown to influence the reporting of research findings, particularly in clinical medicine. In this study, we... -
The Researchers’ View of Scientific Rigor—Survey on the Conduct and Reporting...
Reproducibility in animal research is alarmingly low, and a lack of scientific rigor has been proposed as a major cause. Systematic reviews found low reporting rates of measures... -
Prevalence of antiphospholipid antibodies in Behçet's disease: A systematic r...
Behçet's disease (BD) is a multifactorial systemic inflammatory disease of unknown aetiology characterised by several clinical manifestations including vascular involvements... -
Systematic review and meta-analysis comparing Adjustable Transobturator Male ...
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Urinary incontinence is one of the most serious complications of prostate cancer treatment. The objective of this study was to assess efficacy and safety... -
Huangqi injection (a traditional Chinese patent medicine) for chronic heart f...
Background Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a global public health problem. Therefore, novel and effective drugs that show few side-effects are needed. Early literature studies...
