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BACKGROUND: Decision support tools build upon comprehensive and timely syntheses of literature. Rapid reviews may allow supporting their development by omitting certain components of traditional systematic reviews. We thus aimed to describe a rapid review approach underlying the development of decision support tools, i…

INTRODUCTION: Infertility affects millions of people globally. The presence of key indicators of infertility and fertility care is critical to monitoring access and utilisation of services as part of universal health coverage. In the area of infertility, it is important to track both clinical and non-clinical outcomes…

BACKGROUND: Gastric outlet obstruction syndrome (GOOS) is a clinically significant condition often associated with advanced malignancies, particularly gastric and pancreatic cancers. Management strategies focus on symptom relief, nutritional improvement and quality of life enhancement. Surgical gastrojejunostomy (GJ),…

BACKGROUND: The provision of speech intervention in children requires personalized, child-tailored approaches. Different speech-intervention approaches exist to eliminate cleft-related speech errors in children with a cleft palate. However, it is unclear what approach works best for the subtypes of cleft-related speech…

BACKGROUND: Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OPD) can be functionally debilitating in persons with multiple sclerosis (pwMS). OPD induces alterations in safety and efficiency of food and/or liquid ingestion and may incur negative sequalae such as aspiration pneumonia or malnutrition/dehydration. Early detection and timely mana…

BACKGROUND: Research cites a strong, dose-response relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and poor adult mental health outcomes including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), self-harm, suicidality, and psychotic-like experiences. AIM: To systematically investigate the existen…

INTRODUCTION: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is being increasingly reported among survivors of critical illness and injury. Previous work has demonstrated that PTSD reduces patient quality of life and ability to return to work, as well as increases healthcare costs. As such, identifying interventions aimed at pr…

BACKGROUND: Resource and geographic barriers are the commonly cited constraints preventing the uptake of psychological treatment for chronic pain management. For adults, there is some evidence to support the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a mode of treatment delivery. However, mixed findings h…

The objective of this scoping review is to investigate quality of life (QoL) questionnaires available to pediatric patients following tonsillectomies with or without adenoidectomies for chronic infection or sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The scoping review will aim to map the components of each QoL questionnaire ass…

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a requirement of nurses through the generation of evidence to implementing it, in a bid to to improve clinical practice. However, EBP is difficult to achieve. This paper highlights an approach to generating evidence for enhancing community nursing services for patients with chronic obst…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this scoping review is to summarize the evidence on barriers to outpatient mental health services experienced by Medicaid recipients. INTRODUCTION: Medicaid recipients commonly face challenges in accessing outpatient mental health services. This scoping review will categorize existing evide…

OBJECTIVE: This scoping review aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of digital navigators in health care settings. INTRODUCTION: Digital navigators have emerged to assist patients and clinicians in adopting and effectively using digital health technologies to achieve desired health outcomes. First introduced…

INTRODUCTION: Integrated knowledge translation (iKT) is a collaborative research approach that emphasizes the meaningful and active participation of knowledge users throughout the research process. Evidence suggests that integrated knowledge translation has the potential to increase the relevance, applicability, and us…

OBJECTIVES: This scoping review will aim to map the clinical pathways for patients undergoing adult hip, knee, or shoulder arthroplasties. The review will also map the indicators and measurement tools used to evaluate the effectiveness of these pathways. INTRODUCTION: Clinical pathways are structured, multidisciplinar…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the review is to estimate the global incidence of congenital syphilis, adverse events, and death in children under 2 years of age born to mothers with syphilis. INTRODUCTION: Untreated or inadequately treated maternal syphilis leads to adverse birth outcomes that are often severe, including…

INTRODUCTION: Globally, low and middle-income countries (LMICs) account for the majority of the adverse pregnancy outcomes. Risk prediction models (RPMs) can guide physicians in making clinical decisions to improve maternal and newborn health. However, there is scanty data on RPMs in determining adverse maternal and ne…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review will be to synthesize the effectiveness of school-based programs for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) prevention for school children and adolescents. INTRODUCTION: Schools function as a fundamental platform for communicating health-related knowledge, such as information on preven…

BACKGROUND: The management of procedural pain in pediatric patients under 1 year old is crucial but often inadequately addressed in clinical practice. Despite proven evidence-based interventions like skin-to-skin contact, sweet solutions, and breastfeeding, their implementation remains sporadic. This systematic re…

BACKGROUND: Acute pain management is critical in sports-related musculoskeletal injuries to facilitate recovery and minimize long-term impact. While current practices vary, incorporating both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches, the quality and breadth of existing evidence have not been thoroughly assess…