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PURPOSE: The present umbrella review aimed to synthesize and critically assess the methodological and reporting quality of previous systematic reviews about the potential relationship between obesity or overweight and caries dental experience in pediatric patients. METHOD: Electronic database and manual searches were…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Evidence syntheses systematically compile and analyze information from multiple sources to support health-care decision-making. As many different types of questions need to be answered in health care, different evidence synthesis types have emerged. In this article, we introduce the most comm…

BACKGROUND: To inform the future development of consultation-liaison psychiatry services, we need accurate information on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the general hospital inpatient setting. Systematic reviews have summarized the literature on specific aspects of this broad topic, but there has been no hi…

As background for a National Institutes of Health State of the Science Conference on End-of-Life-Care, we performed a systematic review of end-of-life care and outcomes. The systematic review was intended to evaluate the evidence in the field from the perspective of concerns important to patients, caregivers, and the h…

OBJECTIVES: This scoping review assessed systematic reviews on noninvasive temporomandibular disorder therapies to identify evidence gaps and formulate clinical recommendations. METHOD AND MATERIALS: The scoping review was conducted according to the PRISMA scoping review guidelines and Joanna Briggs Institute updated…

BACKGROUND: The reliable and usable (semi) automation of data extraction can support the field of systematic review by reducing the workload required to gather information about the conduct and results of the included studies. This living systematic review examines published approaches for data extraction from reports…

The aim of this review was to outline the most relevant benefits of forest bathing for well-being promotion. This study was designed as an umbrella literature review. Medline (via PubMed), EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, Scopus, PsycINFO, CINAHL and the DOAJ were systematically searched for re…

BACKGROUND: The production of Plasmodium gametocytes in vitro is a real challenge. Many protocols have been described, but few have resulted in the production of viable and infectious gametocytes in sufficient quantities to conduct research on-but not limited to-transmission-blocking drug and vaccine development. The a…

INTRODUCTION: This paper is a systematic review of the relevant literature surrounding the implementation and utilisation of eHealth to identify key challenges and opportunities to future eHealth applications. METHODS: NHS Evidence, PubMed, IEEE Explorer, Cochrane Library and JMIR Publications were all searched for re…

OBJECTIVES: The dyadic relationship of people living with dementia and their family carers is highly relevant when considering the stability of home-based care arrangements. There is a solid body of research that covers issues related to dyadic relationships. However, a synthesis of qualitative research is missing. The…

BACKGROUND: Cancer screening provision in resource-constrained settings tends to be opportunistic, and uptake tends to be low, leading to delayed presentation and treatment and poor survival. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify, review, map, and summarize findings from different types of literature review…

Systematic review (SR) already makes a major contribution to evidence-based healthcare by making the review process transparent and by reducing bias. SR has been successfully applied to observational studies. Radiologists have already begun to make an impact in dentistry by using SR as a decision-making tool. Central t…

A systematic review uses an explicitly defined process to comprehensively identify all studies pertaining to a specific focused question, appraise the methods of the studies, summarize the results, identify reasons for different findings across studies, and cite limitations of current knowledge. Meta-analyses usually c…

Persons diagnosed with dementia are often faced with challenges related to polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use and could benefit from regular medication reviews. However, the benefit of such reviews has not been examined in this population. Therefore, the current scoping review was designed to identify the ga…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: "Non-randomized studies of interventions" (NRSI) can provide valuable insights into the real-world performance of interventions, especially when randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are impractical, unethical, or lack generalizability. We investigated how Cochrane authors have incorporated evid…

Globally, health inequities experienced by Indigenous communities are often described and documented in terms of deficits and disease. However, health disparities are complex and involve numerous underlying issues beyond the social determinants of health. Indigenous Peoples face unique barriers to accessing culturally…

This rapid review of systematic reviews examines non-professional interventions that have been implemented to support family caregivers of older adults with dementia who are living in the community. There is a robust body of empirical literature examining such interventions for family caregivers; therefore, this rapid…

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to evaluate quality of conduct and reporting of published systematic reviews and meta-analyses in paediatric surgery. We also aimed to identify characteristics predictive of review quality. BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews summarise evidence by combining sources, but are potentially prone to…

STUDY OBJECTIVES: Shift work is commonly increasing, and some physiological changes occur as workers sleep less and their circadian rhythms are disrupted. This umbrella review not only summarizes the evidence but also evaluates the validity of the associations of shift work with different health outcomes. METHODS: We…