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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: The number of literature reviews examining the use of social media in detecting emerging infectious diseases has recently experienced an unprecedented growth. Yet, a higher-level integration of the evidence is still lacking. This study aimed to synthesize existing systematic literature revie…

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews cataloguing the barriers to and facilitators of various outcomes are increasingly popular, despite criticisms of this type of review on philosophical, methodological, and practical grounds. The aims of this review are to appraise, analyze, and discuss the reporting and synthesis practices…

Retirement from sport is a life transition that has significant implications for athletes' physical and mental health, as well as their social and professional development. Although extensive work has been done to review the retirement experiences of athletes, relatively less work has been done to examine and reflect o…

OBJECTIVE: To develop a standardised set of economic parameters (core economic parameter set) for economic evaluations in asthma studies. DESIGN: A systematic literature review and an analytical framework. OUTCOME MEASURES: Economic parameters used to evaluate costs and cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions…

Mobile health (m-Health) is a combination of electronic communications and medical information technology that has helped patients and health care workers during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study aimed to aggregate and highlight findings from existing review studies about applications of m-health to prevent COVID-19.Th…

BACKGROUND: Numerous studies examine simulation modelling in healthcare. These studies present a bewildering array of simulation techniques and applications, making it challenging to characterise the literature. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the level of activity of simulation modelling…

OBJECTIVE: This comprehensive mixed-method review synthesised the trauma-eating disorder (trauma-ED) research across six objectives addressing; prevalence and risk, covariates, clinical characteristics, theories, lived experience, and intervention. METHODS: An umbrella review of systematic reviews, a scoping review of…

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are considered to be the 'gold standards' for synthesizing research evidence in particular areas of enquiry. However, such reviews are only useful if they themselves are conducted to a sufficiently high standard. The aim of this study was to conduct a narrative meta-revi…

A number of new biological markers are being studied as predictors of disease or adverse medical events among those who already have a disease. Systematic reviews of this growing literature can help determine whether the available evidence supports use of a new biomarker as a prognostic test that can more accurately pl…

As faculty members, we frequently find that first-year doctoral students in nursing are confused about how to conduct a systematic integrated literature review. This could be due to its vague definition and a lack of recent literature that provides directions for conducting a systematic integrated literature review. Th…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To describe and critically appraise available methods for handling missing variance data in meta-analysis (MA). METHODS: Systematic review. MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, MathSciNet, Current Index to Statistics, BMJ SearchAll, The Cochrane Library and Cochrance Colloquium proceedings, MA t…

BACKGROUND: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were used or are being used in the manufacturing of products, including consumer-use products. The resulting environmental contamination has led to widespread human exposure. This review aimed to scope the characteristics of evidence covered and applied methodology…

BACKGROUND: This study aims to synthesize knowledge about the role of the public's participation in the definition, prioritization, rationalization, monitoring or control of policies, plans, governance, investment/disinvestment, and design of health services. METHODS: Review of review articles (narrative or systematic…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: "Non-randomized studies of interventions" (NRSI) can provide valuable insights into the real-world performance of interventions, especially when randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are impractical, unethical, or lack generalizability. We investigated how Cochrane authors have incorporated evid…

BACKGROUND: Automation of the parts of systematic review process, specifically the data extraction step, may be an important strategy to reduce the time necessary to complete a systematic review. However, the state of the science of automatically extracting data elements from full texts has not been well described. Thi…

PURPOSE: The aim of this umbrella review was to synthesize existing systematic review evidence on the effectiveness of in-hospital interventions to prevent or reduce avoidable hospital readmissions in older people (≥65 years old). DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive database search was conducted in May 2019 thro…

OBJECTIVE: We sought to understand and synthesize review-level evidence on the challenges associated with accessibility of virtual care among underserved population groups and to identify strategies that can improve access to, uptake of, and engagement with virtual care for these populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A…

We set out to determine the quality of existing systematic reviews on multiple pregnancies. We conducted an electronic search in MEDLINE (1951 - 2005), EMBASE (1974 - 2005) and the Cochrane Database for Systematic reviews (2005:2) and a hand-search of reference lists without any language restrictions to identify releva…

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the Cochrane Collaboration, its development over the years, and its usefulness for physical and rehabilitation medicine specialists. After introducing the Cochrane Collaboration, we systematically analyzed all titles of the reviews in each of the 50 review groups. For ''R…

OBJECTIVE: To classify the sources of bias and variation and to provide an updated summary of the evidence of the effects of each source of bias and variation. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We conducted a systematic review of studies of any design with the main objective of addressing bias or variation in the results of d…