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Bovine veterinarians need to base their clinical decisions on the best scientific evidence. Due to lack of time, the relevant information should be available in a structured and summarized publication, such as systematic reviews. The results and the discussion should be reported in a practical and useful way. A structu…

Evidence from randomized trials and systematic reviews provides the highest level of evidence from which to make clinical decisions. There are over 340 Cochrane reviews and protocols in pregnancy and childbirth; these provide the best single source of evidence for care of pregnant women and their babies, and highlight…

Evidence-based medicine is currently a fashionable term. The evidence that warfarin is safe, effective, and cost beneficial in preventing stroke in AF, DVT treatment, and DVT prophylaxis is mounting. However, the evidence that warfarin remains underutilized in these conditions is also mounting. There is new evidence th…

Keeping one's personal fund of knowledge current is one of the most formidable challenges that physicians face. This article considers a few strategies that may help physicians as they struggle to keep their knowledge up-to-date. Physicians need to develop their own goals for staying current, systematically and periodi…

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the complications which have significant influence on mortality in patient with cancer. Early mortality rate is high in cancer patients who have VTE. This complication is related with cell type and stage of the cancer, surgery applied during cancer treatment, applying catheter and…

BACKGROUND: Epilepsy is a neurological disorder affecting both children and adults. Epileptic seizures are the result of excessive and abnormal cortical cell electrical activity in the brain. In response to criticism that epilepsy care for children has little impact on long-term outcomes, healthcare professionals and a…

PURPOSE: The importance of meniscus integrity in the prevention of early osteoarthritis is well known, and preservation is accepted as the primary goal. The purpose of the ESSKA (European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy) European consensus on traumatic meniscus tears was to provide recomme…

BACKGROUND: Supplementary feeding may help food insecure and vulnerable people by optimising the nutritional value and adequacy of the diet, improving quality of life and improving various health parameters of disadvantaged families. In low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), the problems supplementary feeding aims to…

BACKGROUND: Bibliographic databases provide access to an international body of scientific literature in health and medical sciences. Systematic reviews are an important source of evidence for clinicians, researchers, consumers, and policymakers as they address a specific health-related question and use explicit methods…

BACKGROUND: Growing interest on the effects of home telemonitoring on patients with chronic heart failure (HF) has led to a rise in the number of systematic reviews addressing the same or very similar research questions with a concomitant increase in discordant findings. Differences in the scope, methods of analysis, a…

BACKGROUND: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSDs) are major contributing factors to disease burden in dementia patients. Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has received attention in the management of dementia in patients with BPSDs. This overview aimed to comprehensively and critically rev…

BACKGROUND: Governments are incentivized to develop and implement health action programs focused on equity to ensure progress with effective strategies or interventions. OBJECTIVE: Identify and synthesize strategies or interventions that facilitate the reduction of health inequalities. METHODS: A systematic search st…

INTRODUCTION: Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is one of the prevalent and disabling side effects of cancer treatment. However, management strategies for CIPN currently remain elusive, with treatment restricted to neuropathic pain medications, supportive care, and chemotherapy dosing adjustments. This…

AIM: This study explores how scholarship relating to meta-analytical studies and systematic and integrative reviews can inform nursing's contribution to universal health coverage. INTRODUCTION: As nursing globally embraces the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the Nursing Now social movement has…

The objective of the study was to assess the effect of prophylactic antibiotics on the outcome of bone augmentation and subsequent dental implant placement by combining the recommended quality assessment methods for systematic reviews and primary studies.This is a complex systematic review in which systematic reviews a…

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To explore nursing interventions used among patients with cancer and summarise the results of their effectiveness. The ultimate goal was to improve the quality of care and provide best evidence for clinicians to refer to while developing effective nursing interventions. BACKGROUND: Nursing interve…

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 have been published to address the reporting of different types or aspects of SRs, and another eight are in development. We performed a scopi…

OBJECTIVES: To describe the registration of systematic review (SR) protocols and examine whether or not registration reduced the outcome reporting bias in high-impact journals. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We searched MEDLINE via PubMed to identify SRs of randomized controlled trials of interventions. We included SRs pub…

Nowadays, the study of how new media and technologies can be used to carry out health education by bringing these tools closer to the elderly population is interesting. It is a way of offering them access not only to greater knowledge, but to greater communication and relationship with their surroundings, a range of ne…