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Evaluations of the uptake and impact of the Preferred Reporting Items for Sys...
Background The PRISMA Statement is a reporting guideline designed to improve transparency of systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses. Seven extensions to the PRISMA Statement... -
Guidance for Evidence-Informed Policies about Health Systems: Linking Guidanc...
Present trends suggest that many of the poorest countries in the world, including many in sub-Saharan Africa, will not meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals [1]... -
BADERI: an online database to coordinate handsearching activities of controll...
Background Systematic reviews provide the best evidence on the effect of health care interventions. They rely on comprehensive access to the available scientific literature.... -
Enhancing the uptake of systematic reviews of effects: what is the best forma...
Background Systematic reviews are infrequently used by health care managers (HCMs) and policy-makers (PMs) in decision-making. HCMs and PMs co-developed and tested novel... -
The effectiveness of evidence summaries on health policymakers and health sys...
Background Systematic reviews are important for decision makers. They offer many potential benefits but are often written in technical language, are too long, and do not contain... -
The citation of relevant systematic reviews and randomised trials in publishe...
Background It is important that planned randomised trials are justified and placed in the context of the available evidence. The SPIRIT guidelines for reporting clinical trial... -
"What guidance is available for researchers conducting overviews of reviews o...
Background Overviews of reviews (overviews) compile data from multiple systematic reviews to provide a single synthesis of relevant evidence for decision-making. Despite their... -
How to prepare a systematic review of economic evaluations for informing evid...
Introduction: This article is part of the series “How to Prepare a Systematic Review (SR) of Economic Evaluations (EE) for Informing Evidence-based Healthcare Decisions” in... -
Methods for conceptualising ‘visual ability’ as a measurable construct in chi...
Background Vision influences functioning and disability of children with cerebral palsy, so there is a growing need for psychometrically robust tools to advance assessment of... -
"Grey literature in systematic reviews: a cross-sectional study of the contri...
Background Systematic reviews (SRs) are an important source of information about healthcare interventions. A key component of a well-conducted SR is a comprehensive literature... -
Guideline appraisal with AGREE II: online survey of the potential influence o...
Background The AGREE II instrument is the most commonly used guideline appraisal tool. It includes 23 appraisal criteria (items) organized within six domains. AGREE II also... -
Financial conflicts of interest and reporting bias regarding the association ...
Maira Bes-Rastrollo and colleagues examine whether financial conflicts of interest are likely to bias conclusions from systematic reviews that investigate the relationship... -
Do Cochrane summaries help student midwives understand the findings of Cochra...
Background Abstracts and plain language summaries (PLS) are often the first, and sometimes the only, point of contact between readers and systematic reviews. It is important to... -
Fit for purpose: perspectives on rapid reviews from end-user interviews
Background There is increasing demand for rapid reviews and timely evidence synthesis. The goal of this project was to understand end-user perspectives on the utility and... -
Publication of reviews synthesizing child health evidence (PORSCHE): a survey...
Background Cochrane Child Health maintains a register of child-relevant Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) to provide a comprehensive source of high-quality evidence. However, a... -
Melatonin and health: an umbrella review of health outcomes and biological me...
Background Our aims were to evaluate critically the evidence from systematic reviews as well as narrative reviews of the effects of melatonin (MLT) on health and to identify the... -
Evaluating Data Abstraction Assistant, a novel software application for data ...
Background Data abstraction, a critical systematic review step, is time-consuming and prone to errors. Current standards for approaches to data abstraction rest on a weak... -
Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E...
Background The promotion of health equity, the absence of avoidable and unfair differences in health outcomes, is a global imperative. Systematic reviews are an important source... -
An evaluation of harvest plots to display results of meta-analyses in overvie...
Background Harvest plots are used to graphically display evidence from complex and diverse studies or results. Overviews of reviews bring together evidence from two or more... -
Time-to-update of systematic reviews relative to the availability of new evid...
Background A number of methods for deciding when a systematic review should be updated have been proposed, yet little is known about whether systematic reviews are updated more...
