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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 aim of this study was to analyze the performance of ChatGPT in the generation of new systematic review ideas in urooncology. METHODS: In September 2024, we requested ChatGPT Version 4.0 to generate 10 systematic review ideas in general urooncology and also 10 ideas for each of the four subcategories: bl…

We aimed to comment on the methodological differences and applications of these three types of reviews with special attention to Latin America. Among these new types of reviews we have the scoping review, umbrella review and focused mapping review synthesis. Scoping reviews identify the nature and extent of the evidenc…

The world population is aging. Comprehensive Geriatric assessment (CGA) has been proven to improve the well-being of older adults. However, evidence suggests not all clinicians implement these recommendations in their practice; nor do all patients adhere to them. Currently, there is no up-to-date review of intervention…

INTRODUCTION: Mental health concerns are prevalent among adult patients with long COVID (LC), but the current state of knowledge regarding mental health in the context of LC is not fully understood. The objective of this scoping review is to map and summarise the existing research on mental health conditions among LC p…

INTRODUCTION: Ischaemic heart disease is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Self-management is a way to reduce the risk associated with ischaemic heart disease; however, some individuals may not have the ability or willingness to engage in self-management behaviours. One approach to identify an i…

INTRODUCTION: Developing the capabilities of individuals, groups and communities to enhance their health has received a great deal of attention in the literature. One essential source of results is evidence-based intervention programmes, which often involve a number of different variables. This paper describes a method…

INTRODUCTION: Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common childhood physical disability worldwide. Approximately 1.5 to 4 children per live births live with CP, globally. There have been no specific treatments that can reverse the brain damage responsible for the complex clinical dysfunctions of CP. There are, however, seve…

BACKGROUND: Unintended pregnancy is a problem that women encounter throughout their reproductive age. Excessive and prolonged uterine bleeding is one of the most common and critical adverse reactions of induced abortion, for it increases the risk of anemia and intrauterine infection. To provide reliable clinical eviden…

(1) Background: Maxillofacial injury (MI) occurs universally, for it disregards preference for age, gender, and geographical region. The global incidence and prevalence of facial fractures rose by 39.45% and 54.39%, respectively, between the years 1990 to 2017. Projections indicate that the burden of injuries will pers…

INTRODUCTION: Given the increasing rates of homelessness in recent years, there is an urgent need to address the ongoing discrimination and societal disinterest in preventing, reducing and ending homelessness. There is no systematic review of experiences of stigma and discrimination among persons experiencing homelessn…