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INTRODUCTION: Climate change has been described as the most significant threat to humanity and human health to have emerged this century. It is widely accepted that contemporary human activities are the major causes of climate change. It is also acknowledged that damaging human activities could be amenable to change th…

BACKGROUND: Several studies have documented that specific Indigenous groups have been disproportionately affected by previous pandemics. The objective of this paper is to describe the protocol to be used in a review and meta-analysis of the literature on Indigenous groups and influenza. Using this protocol as a guide,…

INTRODUCTION: Compassionate patient care has been associated with improved clinical outcomes for patients. However, current evidence suggests that healthcare is experiencing a compassion crisis, with physicians frequently overlooking opportunities to treat patients with compassion. Although there is evidence that compa…

BACKGROUND: Predicting outcomes in those with chronic kidney disease or following transplantation is challenging, and current models lack detailed patient-level information. Frailty and poor functional status are risk factors for adverse patient outcomes that may be useful additions to prognostic tools in patients with…

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Within the field of evidence-based practice, policy makers, health care professionals and consumers require timely reviews to inform decisions on efficacious health care and treatments. Rapid evidence assessment (REA), also known as rapid review, has emerged in recent years as a literatu…

The adequacy of the literature search is one of the critical domains that affect the quality of the systematic review. The aim of a literature search in the systematic review should be to obtain thorough, comprehensive, transparent, and reproducible results. Precision (also called "positive predictive value") and sensi…

Systematic review briefs provide a summary of the findings from systematic reviews developed in conjunction with the American Occupational Therapy Association's Evidence-Based Practice Program. Each systematic review brief summarizes the evidence on a theme related to a systematic review topic. This systematic review b…

This scoping review aims to explore and scope the literature and research on the use of e-textile electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring in cardiac patients and provide a unique contribution to the available evidence. The objectives of this scoping review are:The questions of this review are.

The objective of this systematic review is to assess the association between quality indicators related to the individual colonoscopist's performance and subsequent interval cancers in patients participating in bowel cancer screening programs, following the JBI approach.This systematic review of association will search…

Review question/objective: : The objective of this umbrella review is to determine the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation on work participation in working age adults with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). More specifically the review will address the following questions:

In this paper we have looked at the different avenues for nurses to contribute to the knowledge base of the discipline by writing about nursing literature. We emphasised the responsibility that goes with this action. As with all writing the starting point is for the author to define the boundaries of the work, and then…

Although a general purpose (GPT-5), and a fine-tuned (ASReviewLab) artificial intelligence were able to rank abstracts for likely inclusion in a variety of Cochrane systematic reviews, some actually included studies were not highly ranked, necessitating human review of all abstracts.

INTRODUCTION: There is a significant growth in the use of digital technology and methods in health-related research, further driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has offered a potential to apply digital health research in hidden, marginalised and excluded populations who are traditionally not easily reached due to eco…

OBJECTIVE: This qualitative systematic review will identify, appraise, and synthesize existing qualitative evidence regarding the experiences of pregnant people during a natural disaster to gain a deeper understanding of the complex factors influencing their experiences. INTRODUCTION: During natural disasters, pregnan…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to understand the perceptions of nurses working in acute healthcare environments in relation to quality-improvement processes. INTRODUCTION: Quality improvement requirements and processes are firmly embedded in contemporary healthcare practice; however, the evidence is unclea…

BACKGROUND: Herbal medicine treatment is often recommended in order to raise immunity levels and reduce the possibility of recurrence of symptoms, and treating the fundamental causes of the disease. This systematic review will assess the efficacy of herbal medicine in treating Behcet's disease. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: W…

INTRODUCTION: Cluster randomised trials (CRTs) randomise participants in groups, rather than as individuals, and are key tools used to assess interventions in health research where treatment contamination is likely or if individual randomisation is not feasible. Missing outcome data can reduce power in trials, includin…

The German Cochrane Centre in Freiburg contributed substantially to both the initiation of the Cochrane movement in Germany and to the development of evidence-based medicine. Alongside the Cochrane Centres, the Cochrane Review Groups are leading with responsibility for the quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyse…

Systematic review and meta-analysis procedures make use of explicit methods to methodically search and critically appraise and synthesize the medical care research literature. The methods involve refining a clinical question, designing a search procedure to find eligible studies, and determining the validity of the eli…