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BACKGROUND: Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are common following abdominal surgery, contributing significantly to perioperative morbidity and mortality, prolonged hospitalization, and increased healthcare costs. Although various non-pharmacological strategies are frequently recommended in perioperative car…

BACKGROUND: Invasive intra-arterial blood pressure (IABP) monitoring using an arterial catheter carries both risks and practical limitations. Noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitoring using the widely adopted oscillometric automated brachial cuff is performed in nearly all patients in acute care settings at some poi…

ARTICLE TITLE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: Wang X, Huang D, Qian Y, Zhu M. Three-Dimensional Features of Dental Arch in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Evid Based Dent Pract. 2025 Mar;25(1):102056. doi:10.1016/j.jebdp.2024.102056. SOURCE OF FUNDING: The study was funde…

ARTICLE TITLE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: Camps-Font O, Sábado-Bundó H, Toledano-Serrabona J, Valmaseda-de-la-Rosa N, Figueiredo R, Valmaseda-Castellón E. Antibiotic prophylaxis in the prevention of dry socket and surgical site infection after lower third molar extraction: a network meta-analysis. Int…

Marlieke de Kraker discusses a systematic review and meta-analysis reporting the magnitude and consequences of bloodstream infections in low- and middle-income countries.

ARTICLE TITLE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: Rodrigues RP, Vidigal MT, Vieira WA, Nascimento GG, Sabino-Silva R, Blumenberg C, Siqueira MF, Siqueira WL, Paranhos LR. Salivary changes in chronic kidney disease and in patients undergoing hemodialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Nephrology. 2022 Mar…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Oral pain is a common complaint in patients with cancer. This review aims to summarize the knowledge on the causes and approach to management of oral pain garnered over the past 2 years. RECENT FINDINGS: A systematic review and meta-analysis included in the review, assessed cannabinoid versus placeb…

Placebo injections actually improve lateral epicondylitis at high rates. No other injections convincingly improve it better than placebo.Corticosteroid injection is not superior to saline or anesthetic injection (strength of recommendation [SOR] A, systematic review of randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). Platelet-ric…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: If developed using rigorous methods and produced in a timely manner, clinical practice guidelines have the potential to improve patient outcomes. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges involved in generating reliable clinical guidance, it has also provided an opportunity to add…

REVIEW OBJECTIVE: To synthesise the best available evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that have used autoregulated and individualised resistance training versus predetermined and standardised resistance training in treating any tendinopathy. INTRODUCTION: Recent evidence suggests that individualised exerci…

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of long fusion (LF) versus short fusion (SF) for the treatment of degenerative scoliosis (DS). METHODS: We will search MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science to collect the randomized and non-randomized contro…

Jayne Tierney and colleagues offer guidance on how to spot a well-designed and well-conducted individual participant data meta-analysis.

Hypertension (HTN) is the leading cause of worldwide mortality and is responsible for approximately 40% of deaths from cardiovascular disease, chronicle kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It is known that about 80% of all mortality from cardiovascu…

A systematic review (SR) is an article on the «synthesis of the available evidence», in which a review is performed on the quantitative and qualitative aspects of primary studies, with the aim of summarising the existing information on a particular topic. After collecting the articles of interest the research…

There has been great recent interest in the medical and statistical literature in the assessment and validation of surrogate endpoints as proxies for clinical endpoints in medical studies. More recently, authors have focused on using metaanalytical methods for quantification of surrogacy. In this article, we extend exi…

The causes of manifest (strabismus) and latent (phoria) misalignment of the visual axes are incompletely understood. We calculated genetic and environmental contributions to strabismus based upon a critical review and quantitative meta-analysis of previous strabismus twin studies (n=3418 twin pairs) and calculated cont…

Meta-analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) are two important statistical methods in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences. They are generally treated as two unrelated topics in the literature. The present article proposes a model to integrate fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects meta-analyses into the SE…

Non-replication and inconsistency had been common features in the search for common variants of candidate genes affecting the risk of complex diseases. They may continue to require attention in the current era, when massive hypothesis-free testing of genetic variants is feasible. An empirical evaluation of the early ex…

As the volume of biomedical information escalates and its uses diversify, systematic reviews and meta-analyses - the compilation, selection and statistical analysis of pooled results from similar studies - are becoming an increasingly accepted method in the evaluation of healthcare technologies and interventions. We th…