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  1. Systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments are important tools in the evidence-based selection of these instruments. COSMIN (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstrum...

    Authors: Ellen B. M. Elsman, Nancy J. Butcher, Lidwine B. Mokkink, Caroline B. Terwee, Andrea Tricco, Joel J. Gagnier, Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Carolina Barnett, Maureen Smith, David Moher and Martin Offringa
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:121
  2. The rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a global health concern. To reduce the burden of morbidity, mortality and disability due to NCDs, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed ‘best bu...

    Authors: Adjei Kadiri, Monica Ansu-Mensah, Vitalis Bawontuo and Desmond Kuupiel
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:120
  3. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionately high burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) with severe socioeconomic consequences. Targeted interventions that are faith-based or take pla...

    Authors: Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya, Gursimer Jeet, Busola Adebusoye, Oluwaseun Idowu, Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola and Kolawole S. Okuyemi
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:119
  4. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a structural lateral spinal curvature of ≥ 10° with rotation. Approximately 2–3% of children in most populations are affected with AIS, and this condition is responsibl...

    Authors: Elizabeth A. Terhune, Patricia C. Heyn, Christi R. Piper and Nancy Hadley-Miller
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:118
  5. Improving the delivery, uptake, and implementation of cancer screening to meet evidence-based recommendations is needed to reduce persistent cancer health disparities in the USA. Current national public health...

    Authors: Ariella R. Korn, Callie Walsh-Bailey, Meagan Pilar, Brittney Sandler, Prema Bhattacharjee, W. Todd Moore, Ross C. Brownson, Karen M. Emmons and April Y. Oh
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:117
  6. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is a debilitating disorder caused by non-iatrogenic spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks. SIH is increasingly recognized as an important treatable cause of secondary head...

    Authors: Timothy J. Amrhein, Peter G. Kranz, Sarah Cantrell, Constance R. Deline, Carrie M. Carr, Dong Kun Kim, Karen M. Goldstein and John W. Williams
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:116
  7. Asthma is the most common medical condition to affect pregnancy. Asthma exacerbations occur in up to 45% of pregnant women and have been associated with adverse perinatal and infant outcomes. Conflicting liter...

    Authors: Marleen P. Bokern, Annelies L. Robijn, Megan E. Jensen, Daniel Barker, Katherine J. Baines and Vanessa E. Murphy
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:115
  8. Adequately conducted systematic reviews with meta-analyses are considered the highest level of evidence and thus directly defines many clinical guidelines. However, the risks of type I and II errors in meta-an...

    Authors: Christian Gunge Riberholt, Markus Harboe Olsen, Joachim Birch Milan and Christian Gluud
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:114
  9. Rigorous evidence is vital in all disciplines to ensure efficient, appropriate, and fit-for-purpose decision-making with minimised risk of unintended harm. To date, however, disciplines have been slow to share...

    Authors: Neal R. Haddaway, Alexandra Bannach-Brown, Matthew J. Grainger, W. Kyle Hamilton, Emily A. Hennessy, Ciara Keenan, Chris C. Pritchard and Jana Stojanova
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:113
  10. Authors: Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Sofia Tsokani, Stella Zevgiti, Irene Pagkalidou, Katerina-Maria Kontouli, Pinar Ambarcioglu, Nikos Pandis, Carole Lunny, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Anna Chaimani, Sharon E. Straus, Brian Hutton, Andrea C. Tricco, Dimitris Mavridis and Georgia Salanti
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:112

    The original article was published in Systematic Reviews 2021 10:246

  11. This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions among women smokers in low socio-economic status (SES) groups or women living in disadvantaged areas who a...

    Authors: Nicola O’Connell, Emma Burke, Fiona Dobbie, Nadine Dougall, David Mockler, Catherine Darker, Joanne Vance, Steven Bernstein, Hazel Gilbert, Linda Bauld and Catherine B. Hayes
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:111
  12. Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) can measure interstitial fluid glucose levels to provide comprehensive real-time glucose profile among people with type 2 diabetes. These can accurately detect glucose levels...

    Authors: Mingyue Zheng, Adeel Khoja, Anamica Patel, Yunting Luo, Qian He, Xuan Zhao, Shenqiao Yang, Peng Hu and Wei Lin
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:110
  13. The rising prevalence of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and suicidality represents substantial health burden worldwide. People with BPD experience high rates of crisis presentations and stigma when acce...

    Authors: Pauline Klein, A. Kate Fairweather and Sharon Lawn
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:108
  14. The duration and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic depends in a large part on individual and societal actions which is influenced by the quality and salience of the information to which they are exposed. Unfortu...

    Authors: Navin Kumar, Nathan Walter, Kate Nyhan, Kaveh Khoshnood, Joseph D. Tucker, Chris T. Bauch, Qinglan Ding, S. Mo Jones-Jang, Munmun De Choudhury, Jason L. Schwartz, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos and Laura Forastiere
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:107
  15. An inevitable exposure to the toxic heavy metal such as lead in our environmental can have irreversible effects on children’s mental performance.

    Authors: Serve Heidari, Shayan Mostafaei, Nazanin Razazian, Mojgan Rajati, Anahita Saeedi and Fatemeh Rajati
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:106
  16. Dry eye disease (DED) is a condition that compromises the ocular surface and affects millions of people around the world. In recent years, a scheme has been proposed for the treatment of DED, with the use of a...

    Authors: José Gerardo Serrano-Robles, Ana Karen Pérez Vázquez, Alejandro Navas, Enrique O. Graue-Hernandez, Arturo Ramirez-Miranda and Nicolás Kahuam-López
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:105
  17. Excessive weight gain during pregnancy results in maternal and fetal complications and could further impact offspring. The evidence regarding the association between regular weighing during the antenatal perio...

    Authors: Tomomi Matsushita, Aiko Honda, Takeshi Hasegawa, Eisuke Inoue, Hisashi Noma and Erika Ota
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:104
  18. The group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) method is increasingly used in pharmacoepidemiologic studies to describe medication adherence trajectories over time. However, assessing the associations between thes...

    Authors: Victoria Memoli, Giraud Ekanmian, Carlotta Lunghi, Anne-Déborah Bouhnik, Sophie Lauzier and Line Guénette
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:102
  19. Clinical research has shown that therapeutic hypothermia after neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury improves survival without disability. There is no consensus regarding pain relief or sedation during therapeutic ...

    Authors: Pyrola Bäcke, Matteo Bruschettini, Ylva Thernström Blomqvist and Emma Olsson
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:101
  20. Systemic arterial hypertension (HTN) is the leading risk factor of cardiovascular disease death. Lifestyle changes are key for the prevention and management of HTN. Regular aerobic exercise training is recomme...

    Authors: Patrícia Caetano de Oliveira, Alexandre M. Lehnen and Gustavo Waclawovsky
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:100
  21. Interventions designed to increase mental health awareness in sport have grown substantially in the last 5 years, meaning that those involved in policy, research and intervention implementation are not fully i...

    Authors: Gavin Breslin, Stephen Shannon, Michael Cummings and Gerard Leavey
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:99
  22. Increased circulating endocannabinoids levels are typically associated with aerobic exercise. This phenomenon is associated with a “runner’s high,” a state of euphoria and well-being experienced after a long e...

    Authors: Viviane Bristot, Giorgio Poletto, Débora Maria Russiano Pereira, Melina Hauck, Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider and Aderbal S. Aguiar Jr
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:98
  23. Violence towards women with disabilities is most commonly perpetrated by current or former intimate partners and more than half of disabled women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime. Disabil...

    Authors: Karen A. Campbell, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Meagan Stanley and Karen MacKinnon
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:97
  24. Art therapy is a form of complementary therapy to treat a wide variety of health problems. Existing studies examining the effects of art therapy differ substantially regarding content and setting of the interv...

    Authors: Ronja Joschko, Stephanie Roll, Stefan N. Willich and Anne Berghöfer
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:96
  25. The Coronavirus 2019 pandemic necessitated a rapid uptake of video-based interviewing within the personnel selection process in healthcare. While video-based interviews have been evaluated previously, we ident...

    Authors: Rajajee Selvam, Richard Hu, Reilly Musselman, Isabelle Raiche, Daniel I. McIsaac and Husein Moloo
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:94
  26. Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is a debilitating knee injury associated with sequela such as joint instability and progressive degeneration. Unfortunately, following surgical ACL reconstruction in ad...

    Authors: Nicholas J. Romanchuk, Holly Livock, Kenneth J. Lukas, Michael J. Del Bel, Daniel L. Benoit and Sasha Carsen
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:93
  27. Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) affects 40–81% of patients after stroke. A recent systematic review on the costs of OD and its main complications showed higher acute and long-term costs for those patients who dev...

    Authors: Sergio Marin, Mateu Serra-Prat, Omar Ortega and Pere Clavé
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:92
  28. Explanations for health inequalities include material, behavioural and psychosocial pathways. Social relationships are an important determinant of health, and research has consistently found that a lack of sup...

    Authors: Nadia Khaliq, Anne McMunn, Carolina Machuca-Vargas and Anja Heilmann
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:91
  29. In an unparalleled global response, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 90 countries asked 3.9 billion people to stay home. Yet other countries avoided lockdowns and focused on other strategies, like contact tracing...

    Authors: Carl-Etienne Juneau, Tomas Pueyo, Matt Bell, Genevieve Gee, Pablo Collazzo and Louise Potvin
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:90
  30. Diabetes mellitus is an established risk factor for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Incidence of AMI in people with diabetes remains significantly higher than in those without diabetes. However, published d...

    Authors: Maria Narres, Tatjana Kvitkina, Heiner Claessen, Ellen Ubach, Georg Wolff, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Bernd Richter and Andrea Icks
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:89
  31. Rising demand for healthcare continues to impact all sectors of the health service. As a result of the growing ageing population and the burden of chronic disease, healthcare has become more complex, and the n...

    Authors: Naveed Iqbal, Chi Huynh and Ian Maidment
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:88
  32. Combination prevention is currently considered the best approach to combat HIV epidemic. It is based upon the combination of structural, behavioral, and biomedical interventions. Such interventions are frequen...

    Authors: Andrainolo Ravalihasy, Lidia Kardaś-Słoma, Yazdan Yazdanpanah and Valéry Ridde
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:87
  33. Authors: Stephanie M. Eick, Dana E. Goin, Juleen Lam, Tracey J. Woodruff and Nicholas Chartres
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:86

    The original article was published in Systematic Reviews 2022 11:53

  34. There is currently renewed interest in the use of psychedelic therapy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including depression. The proposed systematic review will aim to identify, evaluate and summaris...

    Authors: Lauren Johansen, Paul Liknaitzky, Maja Nedeljkovic, Lisa Mastin-Purcell and Greg Murray
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:85
  35. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive decline and dysfunction of independent living ability, with huge economic and healthy burden worldwide. However, there ...

    Authors: Diyang Lyu, Min Gong, Yong Zhang and Xuanxin Lyu
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:84
  36. Stem cell transplantation (SCT) has paved the way for treatment of autoimmune diseases. SCT has been investigated in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) as an autoimmune-based disorder, but previous studies have n...

    Authors: Sedigheh Madani, Mahdiyeh Amanzadi, Hamid Reza Aghayan, Aria Setudeh, Negar Rezaei, Mahtab Rouhifard and Bagher Larijani
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:82
  37. Whilst there are studies that have systematically reviewed the psychometric properties of quality of life measures for children and young people with intellectual disabilities, these narrowly focus on disease ...

    Authors: Stephanie Maguire, Jenny Davison, Marian McLaughlin and Victoria Simms
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:81
  38. Prescribed exercise to treat medical conditions and to prepare for surgery is a promising intervention to prevent adverse health outcomes for older adults; however, adherence to exercise programs may be low. O...

    Authors: Julia F. Shaw, Sophie Pilon, Matthieu Vierula and Daniel I. McIsaac
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:80
  39. Work-related stress is a common phenomenon, often noticed in the employees of the finance sector. It mirrors counter effects on the wellness of employees, their mental well-being, and physical health. Mindfuln...

    Authors: Tantri Keerthi Dinesh, Ankitha Shetty, Vijay Shree Dhyani, Shwetha T.S and Komal Jenifer Dsouza
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:79
  40. Vaccination, albeit a necessity in the prevention of infectious diseases, requires appropriate strategies for addressing vaccine hesitancy at an individual and community level. However, there remains a glaring...

    Authors: Prem Singh, Pritu Dhalaria, Satabdi Kashyap, Gopal Krishna Soni, Partha Nandi, Shreeparna Ghosh, Mrinal Kar Mohapatra, Apurva Rastogi and Divya Prakash
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:78
  41. In the 2021 Statistics Canada census, 18.5% of the Canadian population were senior (65 years and older), among those 1.7 million (4.5%) were aged 80 years and older. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most c...

    Authors: Richard Hu, Rajajee Selvam, Husein Moloo, Lara Williams, Isabelle Raiche and Reilly Musselman
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:77
  42. The world is facing an unprecedented systemic shock to population health, the economy and society due to the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. As with most economic shocks, this is expected to dispr...

    Authors: Elaine Tod, Deborah Shipton, Gerry McCartney, Shifa Sarica, Graeme Scobie, Jane Parkinson, Anne-Marie Bagnall, Julian Manley, Andrew Cumbers, Sarah Deas and James de le Vingne
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:76
  43. Down syndrome (DS) is a chromosomal anomaly that is characterized by an extra chromosome 21. Ophthalmological manifestations have a high prevalence in patients with DS.

    Authors: Juliana Muñoz-Ortiz, Jesús David Charry-Sánchez, Isabella Bechara-Arango, Mariana Blanco-Becerra, Claudia Talero-Gutiérrez, Marcela Gomez-Suarez and Alejandra de-la-Torre
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:75
  44. Human communication is essential for socialising, learning and working. Disabilities and social disadvantage have serious negative consequences on communication which can impact development from early life int...

    Authors: Kristen Abrahams, Rizwana Mallick, Ameer Hohlfeld, Tamzyn Suliaman and Harsha Kathard
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:74
  45. Salivary gland (SG) hypofunction (objectively reduced saliva flow rate) and xerostomia (subjective sensation of dry mouth) are common and burdensome side effects of radiotherapy to the head and neck region. Cu...

    Authors: Per Marcus Jansson, Charlotte Duch Lynggaard, Amanda Fenger Carlander, Siri Beier Jensen, Bjarke Follin, Cecilie Hoeeg, Birgitte Saima Kousholt, Rasmus Tolstrup Larsen, Christian Grønhøj, Kathrine Kronberg Jakobsen, Susie Rimborg, Anne Fischer-Nielsen, Julia M. L. Menon and Christian von Buchwald
    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2022 11:72

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