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Sagnol P, Delahaye J P·Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983)
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Wang Ziyue, Zhang Yi, Yuan Jiale, +6 more·International journal of surgery (London, England)
BACKGROUND: Plantar fasciitis (PF) is the most common cause of heel pain, often causing significant disruptions to daily life due to severe discomfort. Multiple clinical investigations have attested to the efficacy of injection therapies. This network meta-analysis aimed to evaluate and compare the therapeutic effects…
Wang Ping, Gao Yingxue, Li Hailong, +11 more·Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
AIM: Noninvasive neuromodulation techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (tFUS), are promising interventions for acute treatment of depressive episodes. However, the comparative efficacy and acceptabil…
Park Jae Hyon, Jeong Gwang Hun, Lee Kwang Seob, +11 more·European journal of clinical investigation
BACKGROUND: Cancer risk has been associated with certain gene variations in microRNA (miRNA), but conflicting evidence warrants re-assessing of significant results in meta-analyses. We summarized published meta-analyses that assess the associations between miRNA polymorphism and cancers to show the validity of the find…
Schoot D C, Pijlman B, Stijnen T, +1 more·European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology
Meta-analysis of all randomised trials published so far, was performed to compare the effect of additional gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH)-agonist treatment to exogenous gonadotropins for ovulation induction in clomiphene-resistant polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients. Five clinical studies were included, of…
Rojahn K, Pettigrew T F·The British journal of social psychology
The research on memory for schema-relevant information has produced sharply contradictory results. Some studies demonstrate memory selectivity for schema-consistent information, others demonstrate memory selectivity for schema-inconsistent information. Meta-analytic procedures are applied to a sample of 60 independent…
Walker E, Downey G, Caspi A·Schizophrenia research
Many current discussions of hereditary factors in psychopathology focus on twin studies as the primary source of evidence supporting the importance of genetic determinants. In summarizing the results of these studies, authors often derive estimates of concordance rates by collapsing across studies and presenting mean o…
Cryns A G, Gorey K M, Goldstein M Z·Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology
The data bases of 18 empirical studies were combined into one comprehensive data set and subjected to meta-analysis. The following trends were observed: (1) surgery has a significantly decompensating impact on the mental status of older persons, and the average effect size observed is modest (r = .37); (2) for all ment…
Isnard F, André P·Journees annuelles de diabetologie de l'Hotel-Dieu
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Blondel B, Breart G·British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether a policy of home visits reduces the amount of antenatal care provided by hospital maternity units. DESIGN: A meta-analysis of three randomized controlled trials. SETTING: 9 maternity units in France. SUBJECTS: 1410 women with pregnancy complications. INTERVENTION: 1 or 2 home visits a…
Nebes R D, Brady C B·Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology
A meta-analysis was performed on the response times (RTs) of Alzheimer patients and normal subjects for 61 experimental conditions. Regression of the RTs of Alzheimer patients against those of young normals yielded a linear function: Alzheimer (time) = A+B Young (time), where B was a constant proportion of 2.3. As deme…
Van Ruiswyk J, Byrd J C·Gastroenterology
The efficacy of prophylactic sclerotherapy is unclear because published studies of prophylactic sclerotherapy have reached conflicting conclusions. Meta-analysis was used to determine the efficacy of prophylactic sclerotherapy of esophageal varices. The meta-analysis included all English-language articles reporting res…
Yudkin P L, Ellison G W, Ghezzi A, +5 more·Lancet (London, England)
The efficacy of azathioprine in the treatment of multiple sclerosis was assessed by meta-analysis of the results of all published blind, randomised, controlled trials. 793 patients were enrolled in 5 double-blind and 2 single-blind studies. After 1 year of treatment, the increase in Kurtzke disability status score was…
Bouhuys A L·Biological psychiatry
It is hypothesized that in depressed patients diurnal variation in mood (DV) is a daily recurring phenomenon, which fails to achieve expression on all days (showing a random distribution of DVs). From this perspective a meta-analysis was performed on the raw data of earlier presented studies. The effect of total sleep…
Shore T, Nelson N, Weinerman B·Cancer
To compare radiotherapy alone to chemotherapy plus radiotherapy in the treatment of early stage Hodgkin's disease, the English language medical literature was searched for reports on randomized clinical trials in Stages I and II Hodgkin's disease from 1975 through 1986. Twenty-three reports with 2999 patients were ente…
Voss Peer H, Rehfuess Eva A·Journal of epidemiology and community health
INTRODUCTION: Systematic reviews are a cornerstone of evidence-based public health. The method of appraising the quality of different intervention and observational study designs in such reviews remains an important challenge. This article examines the applicability of selected quality appraisal tools (QATs) and the im…
Zhang Li, Zhao Chong, Ghimire Bijesh, +6 more·BMC cancer
BACKGROUND: The main objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the clinical benefit of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) compared with radiation alone (RT) in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients in endemic geographic areas. METHODS: Using a prospective meta-analysis protocol, two independ…
Sanchez J, Dohoo I R, Christensen J, +1 more·Preventive veterinary medicine
A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to identify study-level variables that could explain the variation in apparent Salmonella spp. prevalence estimates. Electronic and non-electronic literature searches from 1990 until 2005 were carried out to identify all studies related to the prevalence of subclinica…
Kreter B, Woods M·The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Antistaphylococcal penicillins and first-generation cephalosporins have traditionally been the prophylactic antibiotics of choice for patients undergoing cardiothoracic operations. Recently published studies have claimed improved outcomes with respect to postoperative wound infection when second-generation cephalospori…
Tryba M·Critical care medicine
OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: Histamine2 (H2)-receptor antagonists and antacids have been the basic drugs for the prevention of stress bleeding in ICU patients during the past decade. Recently, drugs without major influence on gastric pH have been investigated in stress bleeding prophylaxis. Therefore, a meta-analysis (Mante…