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AIM: This paper explores practical methodological issues which arise from the application of systematic review and meta-synthesis techniques to qualitative research studies in the context of a pragmatic health services research question. BACKGROUND: The emphasis on, and volume of, qualitative research is increasing. A…

AIM: To identify, synthesize and appraise the systematic reviews of ERAS for patients undergoing pancreatic surgery and facilitate ERAS implementation. DESIGN: An umbrella review was used to identify systematic reviews. METHODS: A systematic search following the PRISMA guidelines was used to search databases includin…

OBJECTIVE: Analyze the number and the relevance of references retrieved from CINAHL, MEDLINE, and EMBASE to perform a nursing systematic review. STUDY DESIGN: A search strategy for the review topic was designed according to thesaurus terms. The study analyzes (1) references with abstract, (2) overlap between databases…

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews, such as those prepared by Cochrane, are the strongest evidence on which to base recommendations in clinical guidelines. Network meta-analysis (NMA) can be used to combine the results of studies to compare multiple treatments, which is advantageous over pair-wise meta-analysis (PW-MA) tha…

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…

The impacts of climate change on mental health are starting to be recognized and may be exacerbated for populations at disproportionate risk of health impacts or inequalities, including some people living in low- and middle-income countries, children, indigenous populations, and people living in rural communities, amon…

As background for a National Institutes of Health State of the Science Conference on End-of-Life-Care, we performed a systematic review of end-of-life care and outcomes. The systematic review was intended to evaluate the evidence in the field from the perspective of concerns important to patients, caregivers, and the h…

OBJECTIVE: What roles do librarians and information professionals play in conducting systematic reviews? Librarians are increasingly called upon to be involved in systematic reviews, but no study has considered all the roles librarians can perform. This inventory of existing and emerging roles aids in defining libraria…

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 With the digital transformation of hospitals having unfolded globally, it is important to understand the impacts of eHealth on hospital practice. This study aims to update two previous narrative reviews of systematic reviews and assess: (1) what is the current state of eHealth impacts in hospitals? and (2) ho…

BACKGROUND: Current clinical guidelines recommend that a multidisciplinary team inclusive of allied healthcare practitioners deliver assessment and intervention for disorders of consciousness. Allied health professionals include music, occupational, physical, and speech therapists. These allied health clinicians are ch…

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…

The aim of this paper is to identify reviews of interventions for preventing and treating preterm birth so that these could be appraised and the findings from good quality reviews highlighted. Reviews, rather than individual studies, are the basis for this systematic review because of the proliferation of reviews and t…

Digital health technology has been widely applied to mental health interventions worldwide. Using digital phenotyping to identify an individual's mental health status has become particularly important. However, many technologies other than digital phenotyping are expected to become more prevalent in the future. The sys…

As evidence-based practice has become an important issue in healthcare settings, the educational needs for knowledge and skills for the generation and utilization of healthcare evidence are increasing. Systematic review (SR), a way of evidence generation, is a synthesis of primary scientific evidence, which summarizes…

Numerous surgical and nonsurgical modalities are available to treat basal cell carcinoma (BCC), but their true effectiveness and safety is unknown. This article summarizes the evidence presented in a recent Cochrane review and aims to facilitate the interpretation of the review's findings for the Spanish and Latin Amer…

BACKGROUND: Because of the limits in conceptualisation of care coordination linked to a large array of care coordination models and definitions available, a care coordination framework is needed with a particular focus on the micro level. OBJECTIVE: To develop an evidence-based reference framework for person-centred c…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: As systematic reviews may run out of date, it might be necessary to update them. Out-of-date reviews may jeopardize the comparability when used in the context of overviews (review of reviews). METHODS: Seven electronic databases were searched for overviews up to November 2012. We first aimed…