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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... -
Animal models of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: A machine-assist...
We report a systematic review and meta-analysis of research using animal models of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). We systematically searched 5 online... -
Study design and quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials of chro...
Background The recommended first-line therapy of chronic urticaria is second-generation antihistamines, but the modalities of treatment remains unclear. Numerous... -
Risk of Bias Tool in Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analyses of Acupuncture in Chine...
BACKGROUND: Use of a risk of bias (ROB) tool has been encouraged and advocated to reviewers writing systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs). Selective outcome reporting... -
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... -
The effect of new cooperative medical scheme on health outcomes and alleviati...
Background In 2002, the Chinese government launched a new rural health financing policy to provide health insurance (New Cooperative Medical Scheme, NCMS) for its rural... -
The Efficacy of Chinese Herbal Medicine as an Adjunctive Therapy for Advanced...
Many published studies reflect the growing application of complementary and alternative medicine, particularly Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) use in combination with conventional... -
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... -
Applying the risk of bias tool in a systematic review of combination long-act...
Background The Risk of Bias (RoB) tool is used to assess internal validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Our objectives were to: 1) evaluate inter-rater agreement of... -
Effectiveness of implementing a decentralized delivery of hepatitis C virus t...
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Reproducibility of individual effect sizes in meta-analyses in psychology
To determine the reproducibility of psychological meta-analyses, we investigated whether we could reproduce 500 primary study effect sizes drawn from 33 published meta-analyses... -
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,... -
Can We Depend on Investigators to Identify and Register Randomized Controlled...
Purpose To reduce publication bias, systematic reviewers are advised to search conference abstracts to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in humans and not...
