5,042,690 papers found

Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) have a high disease burden in India. Dyslipidemia, a major CVD risk factor, requires effective management. Our review describes the appropriateness of the international dyslipidemia guidelines in the Indian context. A systematic search was performed in PubMed, Google Scholar, Cochrane Libr…

BACKGROUND: Our objective was to assess the frequency of data extraction errors and its potential impact on results in systematic reviews. Furthermore, we evaluated the effect of different extraction methods, reviewer characteristics and reviewer training on error rates and results. METHODS: We performed a systematic…

OBJECTIVE: A "review of reviews" was undertaken to assess methodological issues in studies evaluating nondrug rehabilitation interventions in stroke patients. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched from January 2000 to January 2008 within the…

AIM: Evidence in medicine depends on original studies but also comes from systematic review. The most the literature grows up, the most systematic reviews are needed to synthesize the evidence, since this can help operators in decision making. The Cochrane reviews are considered the most reliable instruments of synthes…

INTRODUCTION: The authors carried out a systematic review of the effectiveness of workplace safety interventions, as a part of a wider project funded by CCM, Centre for Disease Control. METHODS: Several electronic bibliographic databases were checked, using a standardized string selection. The string contained the fol…

OBJECTIVES: To report the neuropathologic features of a patient with neuro-Behçet disease and to review the literature. METHODS: Herein, we describe a 35-year-old male who fulfills the International Study Group criteria for Behçet disease. RESULTS: The patient developed headache and hemiparesis in a subacut…

INTRODUCTION: Zinc is a fundamental trace element for an adequate nervous system function. It has been suggested that in the brain, a zinc homeostasis alteration may be associated with the genesis of epilepsy, although it is not yet determined if concentrations of zinc are a cause or a consequence of seizures. Another…

OBJECT: Cowden disease is a rare autosomal-dominant phacomatosis and cancer syndrome that is associated with Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD), also called dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma. METHODS: In this review the authors summarize the additions to the literature during the past 5 years, with emphasis on new case…

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: Osteochondromas are common benign bone tumors that rarely arise in the vertebral column. Intraspinal presentation of these tumors is usually circumscribed to the cervical regions with few tumors presenting in the thoracic vertebrae. We report a case of a thoracic solitary osteochondroma arisin…

AIM: This scoping review aims to map evidence on sex differences in colonoscopy sedation use and their impact on colonoscopy quality indicators (CQIs). METHODS: The review will adhere to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). The search will b…

BACKGROUND: This systematic review aimed to investigate the relationship between retraction status and the methodology quality in the retracted non-Cochrane systematic review. METHOD: PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were searched with keywords including systematic review, meta-analysis, and retraction or…

PURPOSE: The aim of this umbrella review was to determine the most effective nursing interventions for the prevention and management of suicidal behavior. In order to do so, the review identifies interventions from the Nursing Interventions Classifications taxonomy with evidence to this end. METHODS: A systematic sear…

The aim of this systematic review (SR) of SRs was to assess the effectiveness of telerehabilitation based on behavior modification techniques (t-BMT) in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. We searched in PubMed, PEDro, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar (January 2022). The outcome measures wer…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In recent decades, increased neonatal survival has enabled research of long-term outcomes of those born preterm. The purpose of this article is to present the findings of an umbrella review, an examination of published systematic reviews and meta-analyses, to examine the outcomes of adolescents…

PURPOSE: Health interventions based on theory may be more effective than those that are not. This review of reviews synthesizes all published randomized controlled trial (RCT) meta-analytic evidence from the last decade to examine whether theory-based interventions were found to be associated with more effective adult…

CONTEXT: Palliative care continues to be a rapidly growing field aimed at improving quality of life for patients and their caregivers. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this review was to provide a synthesis of the evidence in palliative care to inform the fourth edition of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Gu…

PURPOSE: To create a set of consensus-based and evidence-informed recommendations to provide guidance around the safe dispensing and handling of oral anti-cancer drugs in low-volume settings unique to the community pharmacy setting. METHODS: A review of published and grey literature (published in non-commercial domain…

BACKGROUND: The purpose and contribution of supplementary search methods in systematic reviews is increasingly acknowledged. Numerous studies have demonstrated their potential in identifying studies or study data that would have been missed by bibliographic database searching alone. What is less certain is how suppleme…

BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic, debilitating pain disorder. Dissatisfaction with conventional medicine can lead people with FM to turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Two previous overviews of systematic reviews of CAM for FM have been published, but they did not assessed for risk of bias i…

Adult social care continues to be a central policy concern in the UK. The Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF) is a range of measures nationally available to drive forward improvement on outcomes and quality in local councils. While there is an emphasis on improving transparency, quality and outcomes, drawing o…