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Rothman K J, Lanes S, Robins J·Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Foulds R A·BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
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Burr M L, Fehily A M, Sweetnam P M, +1 more·BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
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Depue R H, Ballard B R·British journal of cancer
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Rojas-Jiménez Dariana, Castañeda-Aca Alma Itzel, Alonzo-Martínez Juan José, +3 more·Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Graphs used in scientific articles help improve the understanding of results. One of the most widely used graphs in recent scientific literature is the forest plot. Its growing popularity is related to its versatility. Although it was initially employed to present results of meta-analyses, it is now used to display fin…
McCullock Seth P, Scrivano Rachel M·Clinical psychology review
The high prevalence of stigma toward mental illnesses contributes to the worsened health and quality of life for people with mental illnesses. Different stigmas (e.g., public, self) lead to social discrimination, social isolation, and reduce the likelihood that people with mental illnesses receive adequate treatment fo…
Jadvar Hossein·European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
This article is the first installment of highlights of selected articles published during 2016 in the Annals of Nuclear Medicine, an official peer-reviewed journal of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine. A companion article highlighting selected articles published during 2016 in the European Journal of Nuclear Med…
Oort Frans J, Jak Suzanne·Research synthesis methods
Meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) involves fitting models to a common population correlation matrix that is estimated on the basis of correlation coefficients that are reported by a number of independent studies. MASEM typically consist of two stages. The method that has been found to perform best in t…
de Vries Rob B M, Wever Kimberley E, Avey Marc T, +3 more·ILAR journal
The question of how animal studies should be designed, conducted, and analyzed remains underexposed in societal debates on animal experimentation. This is not only a scientific but also a moral question. After all, if animal experiments are not appropriately designed, conducted, and analyzed, the results produced are u…
Ooi Kazuhiro, Nishiyama Akira, Yuasa Hidemichi, +13 more·Journal of prosthodontic research
PURPOSE: This guideline aimed to make evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the primary treatment of temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) for general practitioners who do not specialize in TMD. REVIEW PROCESS: Following the principles of evidence-based medicine, a systematic review and network meta-analysis (N…
Ferreira Marcio Yuri, Cardoso Leonardo Januário Campos, Günkan Ahmet, +13 more·Neurosurgical review
Meta-analyses are highly valued in medical science, yet accurately reporting complications in neurosurgical studies remains challenging. Examples include inconsistencies in defining and classifying complications and variations in reporting methods. This lack of reproducibility and comparability, along with other issues…
Moran John L, Linden Ariel·BMC medical research methodology
PURPOSE: In the literature, the propriety of the meta-analytic treatment-effect produced by combining randomized controlled trials (RCT) and non-randomized studies (NRS) is questioned, given the inherent confounding in NRS that may bias the meta-analysis. The current study compared an implicitly principled pooled Bayes…
Serrano Valera Manuel, Vela Nuria, Piuvezam Grasiela, +3 more·PloS one
There is currently a growing interest in the so-called emerging pollutants, such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, personal hygiene care products, drugs, etc., whose presence in natural ecosystems is not necessarily recent, but the development in latest years of new and more sensitive methods of analysis has allowed thei…
Chen Shiyun, Su Xin, Feng Yonghui, +12 more·Nutrients
Numerous studies have examined the effects of ketogenic diets (KD) on health-related outcomes through meta-analyses. However, the presence of biases may compromise the reliability of conclusions. Therefore, we conducted an umbrella review to collate and appraise the strength of evidence on the efficacy of KD interventi…
Vinkel Julie, Holm Niels Frederich Rose, Jakobsen Janus C, +1 more·BMJ open
INTRODUCTION: Diabetic foot ulcer represents a major health problem globally. Preliminary studies have indicated that systemic treatment of diabetic foot ulcer patients with hyperbaric oxygen therapy have beneficial effects on wound healing, risk of amputation, glycaemic control, atherosclerosis, inflammatory markers a…
Ingaralingam Sathana, Rauz Saaeha, Murray Philip I, +1 more·Systematic reviews
BACKGROUND: Non-infectious scleritis is a potentially sight-threatening condition in which the sclera, the white outer layer of the eye, becomes inflamed. Whilst scleritis can be infective, the majority of cases are due to non-infectious causes, often occurring in association with an underlying systemic autoimmune or a…
Huang Jinzhu, Chen Xiaohong, Xing Haiyan, +7 more·BMJ open
INTRODUCTION: Pre-eclampsia is an important cause of death and complication for pregnant women and perinatal infant. Low-dose aspirin has been most commonly used to prevent pre-eclampsia in high-risk pregnant women. Recently, heparins have also been used alone or in combination with aspirin to prevent pre-eclampsia. Ho…
Noureddini Mahdi, Mobasseri Narges, Karimian Mohammad, +2 more·The journal of gene medicine
BACKGROUND: The Arg399Gln polymorphism in the X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 gene (XRCC1) may alter the risk of prostate cancer (PCa). The present study aimed to investigate the association of the XRCC1-Arg399Gln polymorphism with PCa risk in an Iranian population, as followed by a meta-analysis and an in sil…
Coyle Doug, Ko Yoo-Joung, Coyle Kathryn, +5 more·Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
OBJECTIVES: To assess the cost-effectiveness of gemcitabine (G), G + 5-fluorouracil, G + capecitabine, G + cisplatin, G + oxaliplatin, G + erlotinib, G + nab-paclitaxel (GnP), and FOLFIRINOX in the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer from a Canadian public health payer's perspective, using data from a recently publ…
Cafri Guy, Banerjee Samprit, Sedrakyan Art, +4 more·Research synthesis methods
The motivating example for this paper comes from a distributed health data network, the International Consortium of Orthopaedic Registries (ICOR), which aims to examine risk factors for orthopedic device failure for registries around the world. Unfortunately, regulatory, privacy, and propriety concerns made sharing of…