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Jefferson Tom·Lancet (London, England)
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Scholten Rob J P M·Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
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Hlatky Mark A, Heidenreich Paul A·Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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Baertschiger Reto M, Buhler Leo H·Xenotransplantation
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Zeng Xiantao, Zhang Yonggang, Kwong Joey S W, +5 more·Journal of evidence-based medicine
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the methodological assessment tools for pre-clinical and clinical studies, systematic review and meta-analysis, and clinical practice guideline. METHODS: We searched PubMed, the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Reviewers Manual…
Misra Sanjana, Lyngdoh Tanica, Mulchandani Rubina·Indian heart journal
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…
Mathes Tim, Klaßen Pauline, Pieper Dawid·BMC medical research methodology
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…
Santaguida Pasqualina, Oremus Mark, Walker Kathryn, +3 more·Journal of clinical epidemiology
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…
Zaina F, Negrini S·European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine
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…
Baldasseroni A, Olimpi Nadia, Bonaccorsi G·La Medicina del lavoro
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…
Borhani Haghighi Afshin, Sharifzad Hamid Reza, Matin Sara, +1 more·The neurologist
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…
Moreno C B, Gutiérrez-Alvarez A M, González-Reyes R E·Revista de neurologia
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…
Robinson Shenandoah, Cohen Alan R·Neurosurgical focus
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…
Brastianos Priscilla, Pradilla Gustavo, McCarthy Edward, +1 more·Neurosurgery
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…
Teixeira L, Avery R K, Iseman M, +4 more·American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Nontuberculous mycobacteria are increasingly encountered pathogens in organ transplant recipients. We report the first case of human disease attributed to Mycobacterium llatzerense that occurred in a liver transplant recipient in the midwestern United States who developed pneumonia and describe the treatment of this pa…
Simon Mireille, Bioulac-Sage Paulette, Trillaud Hervé, +1 more·Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
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Altman D G·Statistics in medicine
I review some areas of medical statistics that have gained prominence over the last 5-10 years: meta-analysis, evidence-based medicine, and cluster randomized trials. I then consider several issues relating to data analysis and interpretation, many relating to the use and misuse of hypothesis testing, drawing on recent…
Layton Deborah, Porta Antonella, Patel Dony, +8 more·Pharmaceutical medicine
High-quality pharmacoepidemiological research is essential for credible real-world evidence (RWE). This expert consensus-based review explores how pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems (QMS) developed for studies using primary data collection (e.g., clinical trials, registries) can be adapted to support studies uti…
Smith Ellesha A, Cooper Nicola J, Sutton Alex J, +2 more·BMC public health
BACKGROUND: The complexity of public health interventions create challenges in evaluating their effectiveness. There have been huge advancements in quantitative evidence synthesis methods development (including meta-analysis) for dealing with heterogeneity of intervention effects, inappropriate 'lumping' of interventio…
Casteli Christiane Pereira Martins, Mbemba Gisèle Irène Claudine, Dumont Serge, +5 more·Systematic reviews
BACKGROUND: Home-based hospitalization (HBH) offers an alternative delivery model to hospital care. There has been a remarkable increase in pilot initiatives and deployment of this model to optimize services offered to a population with a variety of progressive and chronic diseases. Our objectives were to systematicall…