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INTRODUCTION: Guideline-adherent physiotherapy can improve patient outcomes and reduce costs in the healthcare system. However, although there are numerous guidelines for physiotherapy practice, services are not consistently based on clinical practice guidelines. While various systematic and scoping reviews have highli…

INTRODUCTION: Indigenous people, including Māori in New Zealand, face many inequities in health and the determinants of health. Historically, the analysis and reporting of Indigenous health in the literature has usually taken a western medical view, often with a descriptive and deficit-oriented approach-ignoring…

INTRODUCTION: Worldwide, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis rates in children and adolescents have been increasing consistently over the past decades, fuelling a debate about the underlying reasons for this trend. While many hypothesise that a substantial number of these additional cases are over…

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews have, in the past, focused on quantitative studies and clinical effectiveness, while excluding qualitative evidence. Qualitative research can inform evidence-based practice independently of other research methodologies but methods for the synthesis of such data are currently evolving. Syn…

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (rapid). The objectives are as follows: To comprehensively identify the published literature on prevention strategies for dengue. To critically appraise secondary research. To present the findings of objectives 1 and 2 in a single evidence gap map. To identify critical knowledge…

The first paper in a series of seven serves as an overview of the initiation of the insecticide Sulfoxaflor Environmental Science review process and provides some regulatory background. The following papers are a series and describe a critical analysis of the data related to sulfoxaflor in terms of its uses, properties…

ARTICLE TITLE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: Diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence-aided caries detection on bitewing radiographs: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ammar, N. & Kühnisch, J. Japanese Dental Science Review, 60(2024): 128-136. SOURCE OF FUNDING: Nonprofit foundation: Förderprog…

Dr. Heinrich and colleagues raise concerns about our systematic review and meta-analysis (Li et al., 2022) regarding the literature screening principles, outcome data collection, and the cohort studies included in the sub-group analysis. We appreciate Dr. Heinrich and colleagues' review and suggestions on our paper (He…

The specific review question to be addressed in this review is: what is the risk of metabolic outcomes for individuals who experience rapid weight gain or catch-up growth during the first two years of life?

The objective of this scoping review is to identify and map information on how occupational therapists address their clients' perceived and experienced barriers to participation in religious occupations as part of the occupational therapy intervention.Specifically the review questions are.

The objective of this scoping review is to examine the characteristics of initial telephone consultations conducted in primary care settings and to map the existing evidence on the components, skills and training recommended for initial telephone consultations in current primary care.This scoping review will be guided…

The objective of the review is to synthesize evidence regarding the experiences of unpaid caregivers of community-dwelling adults with dementia. Specifically, the review question is: What are the experiences and perceptions of unpaid caregivers providing care for community-dwelling adults with dementia?

Candidemia in the pediatric burn population poses a management dilemma due to the paucity of good clinical data to guide treatment decisions. Whilst candidemia is less common than bacteremia in pediatric burns patients, it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We report a case of candidemia in an infa…

The American College of Chest Physicians comprehensive review of continuing medical education is an ambitious attempt to summarize a vast and heterogeneous literature. Nevertheless, there appear to be some consistencies; multiple media and instructional methods appear to be consistently better than single approaches, a…

Spontaneous regression of intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) is a rare phenomenon. Such an event is more likely to occur with small AVMs that present with intracranial hemorrhage, which are fed by a unique artery and drained through a single vein. The factors responsible for AVMs regression remain unclear.…

Bronchiolitis obliterans and organizing pneumonia (BOOP) is a syndrome that has been associated with a variety of underlying disorders, including infection, collagen vascular diseases and toxic fume inhalation. Rarely, however, BOOP has been associated with radiation- or chemotherapy-induced pulmonary toxicity. Over th…

The science of systematically reviewing literature has become a research process in its own right. The key word of course, is systematic. In the context of a systematic review this indicates that all possible sources have been comprehensively searched using a pre-defined search strategy designed to identify all relevan…

BACKGROUND: Doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs face challenges related to variability and rigor of practice-focused scholarly work, particularly DNP projects. PROBLEM: Inconsistent expectations and limited integration of evidence synthesis undermine competency development in evidence-based practice and knowledg…