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Couchoud C, Laville M, Boissel J P·Therapie
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Luo Haoran, Xiong Yiman, Ding Xianming, +4 more·Journal of affective disorders
IMPORTANCE: Substance use disorders (SUDs) remain a severe global public health challenge. Non-pharmacological interventions are widely used to improve mental health and quality of life (QoL) in people with SUDs, but their comparative effectiveness for these outcomes remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE: To compare the relati…
Lassen M R, Borris L C, Christiansen H M, +5 more·Seminars in thrombosis and hemostasis
Several clinical studies have evaluated the efficacy and safety of LMWH in the prevention of postoperative thromboembolic complications. We subjected 42 studies to a statistical meta-analysis in order to evaluate the efficacy of different prophylactic regimens compared with LMWH prophylaxis. In general surgery LMWH was…
Melsen W G, Bootsma M C J, Rovers M M, +1 more·Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Variance between studies in a meta-analysis will exist. This heterogeneity may be of clinical, methodological or statistical origin. The last of these is quantified by the I(2) -statistic. We investigated, using simulated studies, the accuracy of I(2) in the assessment of heterogeneity and the effects of heterogeneity…
Silberberg J S, Henry D A·The Medical journal of Australia
OBJECTIVE: To use meta-analysis to estimate the benefits of drug treatment to lower cholesterol levels in the primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) events. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE search from 1967 to 1990; bibliographies of review articles. STUDY SELECTION: Nine trials met the entry criteria:…
Ayers Chelsea, Ward Rachel, Kansagara Devan·Annals of internal medicine
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Wang Xiaodan, Guo Congcong, Yang Yi, +2 more·Medicine
BACKGROUND: This network meta-analysis comprehensively compared the accuracy of the currently commonly used venous thromboembolism (VTE) assessment scale for screening peripherally inserted central catheter-associated VTE. METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive literature search to obtain relevant studies on diagnostic…
Chen Chia-Wei, Wei Lien-Chung·International nursing review
This letter comments on the recent meta-analysis by Maximiano-Barreto et al. on empathy subdomains and burnout in nurses. The article makes a valuable contribution by showing that empathy is not uniformly protective: perspective taking may be associated with lower burnout, whereas personal distress and possibly fa…
Lancet (London, England)
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Mismetti P, Laporte-Simitsidis S, Leizorovicz A, +1 more·Therapie
Heparin treatment of venous thromboembolic disease has been validated since 1960. Nevertheless no study was sufficient to determine an optimal therapeutic schedule between sub-cutaneous (SC) unfractionated heparin (UFH), intravenous (IV) UFH and low molecular weight heparin (LMWH). One meta-analysis showed a significan…
Rodgers R P, Levin J·Blood
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Henry D A·BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
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Aufricht C, Tenner W, Kohlhauser C·Klinische Padiatrie
Lyme borreliosis is currently suspected to be capable of mimicking nearly all known neurologic symptoms and disease entities. The goal of our study is to define the associated anamnestic, clinical and laboratory findings in aseptic meningitis and Lyme borreliosis in childhood by a meta-analysis of recent literature and…
Capurso L, Koch M·La Clinica terapeutica
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Fernández Sierra M A, Gómez Olmedo M, Delgado Rodríguez M, +1 more·Medicina clinica
The aim of this research was to study the prevalence of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among the Spanish population. Due to the lack of available data we have applied meta-analysis techniques. We analyzed 67 original publications on this field appeared between 1985 and 1989. The prevalence of the i…
Wang Yi, Sun Guang, Pan Jian-gang, +1 more·Zhonghua nan ke xue = National journal of andrology
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the correlation of Ureaplasma urealyticum (Uu) and Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) infections with male sterility. METHODS: Data from CBMA and CNKI were searched and studies were made for the correlation of Uu and Ct infections with male sterility by retrieval strategy worked out according to the Col…
Hofer T, McMahon L·Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)
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Naldi L, Zucchi A, Brevi A, +2 more·Lancet (London, England)
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Schild Anne H E, Voracek Martin·Research synthesis methods
Graphs are an essential part of scientific communication. Complex datasets, of which meta-analyses are textbook examples, benefit the most from visualization. Although a number of graph options for meta-analyses exist, the extent to which these are used was hitherto unclear. A systematic review on graph use in meta-ana…
Lavigne J V, Faier-Routman J·Journal of pediatric psychology
Reviewed 87 studies of children's adjustment to physical disorders in a meta-analysis. Results indicate (a) children with such disorders show increased risk for overall adjustment problems, internalizing and externalizing symptoms; (b) risk was greatest in studies making comparisons to norms rather than to study contro…