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Maintaining updated systematic reviews is one of the key goals of the Cochrane Collaboration. Reviews are meant to be updated at an interval of no more than 2 years. The Cochrane Neonatal Review (CNRG) is one of the most productive contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. However, this means that the CNRG now has a…

Before starting any (animal) research project, review of the existing literature is good practice. From both the scientific and the ethical perspective, high-quality literature reviews are essential. Literature reviews have many potential advantages besides synthesising the evidence for a research question. First, they…

AIMS: The benefits of increasing public access to data from clinical trials are widely accepted. Such benefits extend to the sharing of data from high-quality systematic reviews, given the time and cost involved with undertaking reviews. We describe the application of open sources of review data, outline potential chal…

OBJECTIVE: The Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) tool was designed to classify randomized clinical trials (RCT) as being more pragmatic or explanatory. We modified the PRECIS tool (called PRECIS-Review tool [PR-tool]) to grade individual trials and systematic reviews of trials. This should help…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to test if a conclusion in a systematic review of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) for osteoarthritis from the Cochrane Library was valid and robust. BACKGROUND DATA: Health policy decisions often rely on conclusions from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for approval of ne…

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews are important for decision-makers. They offer many potential benefits but are often written in technical language, are too long, and do not contain contextual details which makes them hard to use for decision-making. There are many organizations that develop and disseminate derivative pro…

Umbrella review is a newly developed method, used for evidence-based medicine analysis. It is somehow better than systematic reviews and Meta-analysis for medical evidence analysis. It is based on systematic reviews and Meta-analysis but in a more sophisticate way. In many specific occasions, it is similar to Meta-anal…

Systematic reviews are used in medical research to synthesize evidence by collecting evidence from available literature without overlooking important sources or pieces. Several guidelines are available for the methodological implementation of a systematic review; however, none of them include case reports or case serie…

The objective of this review is to determine the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy for patients with heart failure and depression, aged ≥18 years, in institutionalized healthcare settings. More specifically, the review aims to identify which cognitive behavior therapy strategy/strategies, includ…

OBJECTIVES: The scoping review has become increasingly popular as a form of knowledge synthesis. However, a lack of consensus on scoping review terminology, definition, methodology, and reporting limits the potential of this form of synthesis. In this article, we propose recommendations to further advance the field of…

BACKGROUND: For systematic reviews providing evidence for policy decisions in specific geographical regions, there is a need to minimise regional bias when seeking out relevant research studies. Studies on people's views tend to be dispersed across a range of bibliographic databases and other search sources. It is reco…

When conducting a systematic review, screening the vast body of literature to identify the small set of relevant studies is a labour-intensive and error-prone process. Although there is an increasing number of fully automated tools for screening, their performance is suboptimal and varies substantially across review to…

BACKGROUND: The Journal of Oral Biosciences is devoted to advancing and disseminating fundamental knowledge concerning every aspect of oral biosciences. HIGHLIGHT: This review features review articles in the fields of "Bone Cell Biology," "Tooth Development & Regeneration," "Tooth Bleaching," "Adipokines," "Milk Thist…

BACKGROUND: Reminiscence has been shown to improve cognitive functions in persons with dementia and maintain meaningful relationships with their familial caregivers. However, there is a dearth of reviews on caregiver-involved or caregiver-led reminiscence activities. OBJECTIVES: This protocol aims to outline the proce…

INTRODUCTION: Asymmetric mandibular hypoplasia, microtia, tongue and laryngeal anomalies, and soft palate and facial nerve dysfunction are clinical features observed in children with craniofacial microsomia (CFM). Despite involvement of all these structures in hearing and speech, there is limited evidence reporting spe…

INTRODUCTION: People living with asthma require regular reviews to address their concerns and questions, assess control, review medication, and support self-management. However, practical barriers to attending face-to-face consultations might limit routine reviews. Reviewing asthma using asynchronous digital health int…

Citation screening during the systematic review process can be time-consuming due to the exponentially increasing amount of research. This letter describes an approach to expediting the process by single screening citations that include terms in the abstract and/or keywords related to the exclusion criteria of the syst…

BACKGROUND: Bibliographic database software is often recommended as a tool that can assist researchers in managing the large numbers of references produced in early stages of a systematic review. The uses of such software in systematic review research are often represented solely in terms of bibliographic functions, wh…