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  1. Capacity to deliver outpatient care for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) may soon be outweighed by need. This systematic review aims to investigate the comparative effectiveness, sa...

    Authors: Shannon E. Kelly, Tammy J. Clifford, Doug Coyle, Janet Martin, Vivian Welch, Becky Skidmore, David Birnie, Ratika Parkash, Anthony S. L. Tang and George A. Wells

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:153

    Content type: Protocol

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  2. Hypertension is one of the public health challenges. Various risk factors are associated with hypertension, including social demographics, geographical location, health behaviours, and social stress. Intervent...

    Authors: Fateme Arabi Basharic, Ali Janati, Mohammad Zakaria Pezeshki, Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq, Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi and Masoumeh Gholizadeh

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:152

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  3. Virtual care models are used to follow-up patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIED), including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization therap...

    Authors: Shannon E. Kelly, Tammy J. Clifford, Becky Skidmore, David Birnie, Ratika Parkash and George A. Wells

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:151

    Content type: Protocol

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  5. This review will provide an overview of published data comparing transposition of the extensor indicis pollicis (EIP) tendon and palmaris longus (PL) tendon grafting in thumb extension reconstruction following...

    Authors: Abdulwares Meiwandi, Sarantos Kaptanis and Marios Papadakis

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:149

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  7. Velamentous cord insertion (VCI) is an umbilical cord attachment to the membranes surrounding the placenta instead of the central mass. VCI is strongly associated with vasa praevia (VP), where umbilical vessel...

    Authors: Amy Buchanan-Hughes, Anna Bobrowska, Cristina Visintin, George Attilakos and John Marshall

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:147

    Content type: Research

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  8. Pre- and post-partum depression is a common mood disorder with detrimental effects on both mother and child. The aim of the proposed review is to summarize evidence related to the effects of both pre- and post...

    Authors: Lea Takács, Vít Kandrnal, Šárka Kaňková, František Bartoš and Jiří Mudrák

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:146

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  9. Vestibular compensation is a homeostatic process that occurs in the central nervous system in response to peripheral vestibular dysfunction. Experimental studies in rodent models have suggested that unilateral...

    Authors: Rajiv Wijesinghe and Aaron Camp

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:145

    Content type: Research

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  10. Vitamin D (vitD) deficiency is a global childhood health problem. Food fortification is a promising strategy to curb vitD deficiency. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of utilizing vitD fortification in sta...

    Authors: Reem Al Khalifah, Rawan Alsheikh, Yossef Alnasser, Rana Alsheikh, Nora Alhelali, Ammar Naji and Nouf Al Backer

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:144

    Content type: Research

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  11. Acute liver failure is a rare syndrome with significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in absence of transplantation as a rescue therapy. An important mechanism contributing to mortality is hyperammonem...

    Authors: Andrea M. Robinson, C. J. Karvellas, Joanna C. Dionne, Robin Featherstone, Meghan Sebastianski, Ben Vandermeer and Oleksa G. Rewa

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:143

    Content type: Protocol

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  12. Health practitioners from different professions, and with differing competencies, need to collaborate to provide quality care. Competencies in interprofessional working need developing in undergraduate educati...

    Authors: Renée Allvin, Carl Thompson and Samuel Edelbring

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:142

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  13. There is no consensus on the role of inflammatory markers in identifying chorioamnionitis in preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM). We set out to evaluate the accuracy of maternal blood C-reactive pro...

    Authors: Angela Koech Etyang, Geoffrey Omuse, Abraham Mwaniki Mukaindo and Marleen Temmerman

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:141

    Content type: Research

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  14. A model that can predict treatment response for a patient with specific baseline characteristics would help decision-making in personalized medicine. The aim of the study is to develop such a model in the trea...

    Authors: Yan Luo, Konstantina Chalkou, Ryo Yamada, Satoshi Funada, Georgia Salanti and Toshi A. Furukawa

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:140

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  15. US opioid prescribing and use escalated over the last two decades, with parallel increases in opioid misuse, opioid-related deaths, and concerns about diversion. Postoperatively prescribed opioids contribute t...

    Authors: Lori Schirle, Amanda L. Stone, Matthew C. Morris, Sarah S. Osmundson, Philip D. Walker, Mary S. Dietrich and Stephen Bruehl

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:139

    Content type: Research

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  16. Alcohol use is a challenging problem which attributes to more than 5% of the overall global burden of disease. It is more common among persons with HIV infection than the general population. Although there are...

    Authors: Birhanie Mekuriaw, Zelalem Belayneh, Alemayehu Molla and Tsegaye Mehare

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:138

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  17. Diabetes is a highly prevalent chronic disease that places a large burden on individuals and health care systems. Models predicting the risk (also called predictive models) of other conditions often compare pe...

    Authors: Ruth Ndjaboue, Imen Farhat, Carol-Ann Ferlatte, Gérard Ngueta, Daniel Guay, Sasha Delorme, Noah Ivers, Baiju R. Shah, Sharon Straus, Catherine Yu and Holly O. Witteman

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:137

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  18. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders impose a significant and most often underappreciated burden to the individual, nation, healthcare system, and society as a whole. To the best of our knowledge, there is a...

    Authors: Tsiwaye Gebreyesus, Kalkidan Nigussie, Moges Gashaw and Balamurugan Janakiraman

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:136

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  20. Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of various cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes risk factors, such as abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, high blood pressure, and high blood glucose, but its preva...

    Authors: Nicholas Kofi Adjei, Florence Samkange-Zeeb, Mihiretu Kebede, Maham Saleem, Thomas L. Heise and Hajo Zeeb

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:134

    Content type: Protocol

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  21. Community-based peer and community health worker-led diabetes self-management programs (COMP-DSMP) can benefit diabetes care, but the supporting evidence has been inadequately assessed. This systematic review ...

    Authors: Mahmoud Werfalli, Peter J. Raubenheimer, Mark Engel, Alfred Musekiwa, Kirsten Bobrow, Nasheeta Peer, Cecilia Hoegfeldt, Sebastiana Kalula, Andre Pascal Kengne and Naomi S. Levitt

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:133

    Content type: Research

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  22. Network meta-analyses (NMAs) of psoriasis treatments, undertaken as part of the NICE Single Technology Appraisal (STA) process, have included heterogeneous studies. When there is inconsistency or heterogeneity...

    Authors: Ros Wade, Sahar Sharif-Hurst and Sofia Dias

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:132

    Content type: Research

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  23. Delirium is an acute confusional state, common in critical illness and associated with cognitive decline. There is no effective pharmacotherapy to prevent or treat delirium, although it is scientifically plaus...

    Authors: Cathrine A. McKenzie, Valerie J. Page, W. David Strain, Bronagh Blackwood, Marlies Ostermann, David Taylor, Peter E. Spronk and Daniel F. McAuley

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:131

    Content type: Protocol

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  24. Despite the enormous financial and humanistic burden of chronic low back pain (CLBP), there is little consensus on what constitutes the best treatment options from a multitude of competing interventions. The o...

    Authors: Trevor Thompson, Sofia Dias, Damian Poulter, Sharon Weldon, Lucy Marsh, Claire Rossato, Jae Il Shin, Joseph Firth, Nicola Veronese, Elena Dragioti, Brendon Stubbs, Marco Solmi, Christopher G. Maher, Andrea Cipriani and John P. A. Ioannidis

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:130

    Content type: Protocol

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  25. According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics, England and Wales reported a 2.9% increase in sexual aggression cases (3.4 million females and 631,000 males) between 2009 and 2019. In Scotland, sexual ag...

    Authors: Delarise Maud Mulqueeny, Jennifer Roberts and Senzelokuhle Mpumelelo Nkabini

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:129

    Content type: Protocol

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  26. Healthy aging (HA) is a contemporary challenge for population health worldwide. Electronic health (e-Health) interventions have the potential to support empowerment and education of adults aged 50 and over.

    Authors: Ronald Buyl, Idrissa Beogo, Maaike Fobelets, Carole Deletroz, Philip Van Landuyt, Samantha Dequanter, Ellen Gorus, Anne Bourbonnais, Anik Giguère, Kathleen Lechasseur and Marie-Pierre Gagnon

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:128

    Content type: Research

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  27. Six core behavioural risk factors (poor diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, alcohol misuse, smoking and unhealthy sleep patterns) have been identified as strong determinants of chronic disease, such ...

    Authors: Louise Thornton, Bridie Osman, Annie B. Wescott, Matthew Sunderland, Katrina Champion, Olivia Green, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Tim Slade, Nickie Newton, Cath Chapman, Maree Teesson, Katherine Mills, Louise Birrell, David Lubans, Pepijn Van de Ven, John Torous…

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:127

    Content type: Protocol

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  29. Perinatal loss is a traumatic and complex experience that contributes to negative maternal psychological states and adverse outcomes impacting fetal development, maternal-fetal/infant bonding, marital/partner ...

    Authors: Elyse M. Charrois, Katherine S. Bright, Abdul Wajid, Muhammad Kashif Mughal, K. Alix Hayden and Dawn Kingston

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:125

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  30. Current understandings of the etiology of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the trajectory of care significantly lack consideration for the inclusion of Black populations. The global prevalence of TBI is increa...

    Authors: Samira Omar, LLana James, Angela Colantonio and Stephanie A. Nixon

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:124

    Content type: Protocol

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  31. Barriers to receiving optimal healthcare exist for Indigenous populations globally for a range of reasons. To overcome such barriers and enable greater access to basic and specialist care, developments in info...

    Authors: Rachel Reilly, Jacqueline Stephens, Jasmine Micklem, Catalin Tufanaru, Stephen Harfield, Ike Fisher, Odette Pearson and James Ward

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:123

    Content type: Research

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  32. Chronic musculoskeletal pain represents an enormous burden in society. Best-practice care for chronic musculoskeletal pain suggests adoption of self-management strategies. Telehealth interventions (e.g., video...

    Authors: Lívia G. Fernandes, Hemakumar Devan, Steven J. Kamper, Christopher M. Williams and Bruno T. Saragiotto

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:122

    Content type: Protocol

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  33. First responders are a high-risk population for occupational stress injuries as they often encounter prolonged stress within their line of work. The aim of this rapid overview of reviews is to summarize existi...

    Authors: Jesmin Antony, Raman Brar, Paul A. Khan, Marco Ghassemi, Vera Nincic, Jane P. Sharpe, Sharon E. Straus and Andrea C. Tricco

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:121

    Content type: Research

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  34. Continuous glucose monitorings (CGMs) have been used to manage diabetes with reasonable glucose control amongst patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in recent decades. CGMs measure interstitial fluid glucose le...

    Authors: Mingyue Zheng, Yunting Luo, Wei Lin, Adeel Khoja, Qian He, Shenqiao Yang, Xuan Zhao and Peng Hu

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:120

    Content type: Protocol

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  35. With an increase in wildfire activity across the globe and growing numbers of personnel involved each year, it is necessary to explore the health impacts of occupational exposure to wildfires and the practices...

    Authors: Erica Koopmans, Trina Fyfe, Mike Eadie and Chelsea A. Pelletier

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:119

    Content type: Protocol

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  36. Peripheral nerves are constant targets of traumatic injury which may result in neurotmesis and which invariably requires surgical treatment. In view of this, tissue engineering studies developed biomaterials w...

    Authors: Ana Camila Nobre de Lacerda Brito, Sara Emanuely Veríssimo Santos, Wilayane Alves Martins, Paulo César da Silva Queiroz, Wenddy Wyllie Damascena Sougey, Paula Ketilly Nascimento Alves, Kalline Lourenço Ribeiro, Maria Danielly Lima de Oliveira and Sílvia Regina Arruda de Moraes

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:118

    Content type: Protocol

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  38. Meta-analysts rely on the availability of data from previously conducted studies. That is, they rely on primary study authors to register their outcome data, either in a study’s text or on publicly available w...

    Authors: Joshua R. Polanin, Dorothy L. Espelage, Jennifer K. Grotpeter, Alberto Valido, Katherine M. Ingram, Cagil Torgal, America El Sheikh and Luz E. Robinson

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:116

    Content type: Methodology

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  39. This work aimed to identify studies of interventions seeking to address mental health inequalities, studies assessing the economic impact of such interventions and factors which act as barriers and those that ...

    Authors: Laura-Louise Arundell, Helen Greenwood, Helen Baldwin, Eleanor Kotas, Shubulade Smith, Kasia Trojanowska and Chris Cooper

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:115

    Content type: Research

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  40. Neurotrauma is an important global health problem. The largest cause of neurotrauma worldwide is road traffic collisions (RTCs), particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Neurotrauma and RTCs a...

    Authors: Santhani M Selveindran, Tamara Tango, Muhammad Mukhtar Khan, Daniel Martin Simadibrata, Peter J. A. Hutchinson, Carol Brayne, Christine Hill, Franco Servadei, Angelos G. Kolias, Andres M. Rubiano, Alexis J. Joannides and Hamisi K. Shabani

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:114

    Content type: Research

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  41. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions often fail to show long-term impact on diarrhoeal and/or intestinal parasite risk in many low- and middle-income countries. Less attention has been paid to wider co...

    Authors: Benn Sartorius, Hugo Legge and Rachel Pullan

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:113

    Content type: Protocol

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  42. The literature on the implementation of knowledge products is extensive. However, this literature is still difficult to interpret for policymakers and other stakeholders when faced with choosing implementation...

    Authors: Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun, José Massougbodji, André Bussières, Aliki Thomas, Dahlia Kairy, Claude Bernard Uwizeye, Nathalie Rheault, Ali Ben Charif, Ella Diendéré, Léa Langlois, Sébastien Tchoubi, Serigne Abib Gaye and France Légaré

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:112

    Content type: Protocol

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  44. To date multimorbidity has not received much attention in health policies, even though multiple chronic diseases put high demands on the health care system in industrial nations. Enormous costs of care and a p...

    Authors: Simone Schweda and Inga Krauss

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:110

    Content type: Protocol

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  45. Environmental factors such as pollution, pesticide exposure and socio-demographic location have been implicated as a pressure capable of altering genetic make-up. Altered genetic sequence of genes encoding enz...

    Authors: Nkosinathi Banhela, Pragalathan Naidoo and Saloshni Naidoo

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:109

    Content type: Research

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  46. COVID-19 is a rapidly spreading virus infection that has quickly caused extensive burden to individual, families, countries, and the globe. No intervention has yet been proven effective for the treatment of CO...

    Authors: Sophie Juul, Niklas Nielsen, Peter Bentzer, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Lehana Thabane, Adam Linder, Sarah Klingenberg, Christian Gluud and Janus Christian Jakobsen

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:108

    Content type: Protocol

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  47. Endovascular therapy is a fundamental treatment for peripheral arterial disease. However, the success rate of endovascular therapy remains poor, as a third of patients with critical limb ischemia ultimately re...

    Authors: Mark Rockley, Prasad Jetty and George Wells

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:107

    Content type: Protocol

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  48. Antibiotics are prescribed frequently for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) even though most URTIs do not require antibiotics. This over-prescription contributes to antibiotic resistance which is a ma...

    Authors: Sameh Mortazhejri, Patrick Jiho Hong, Ashley M. Yu, Brian Younho Hong, Dawn Stacey, R. Sacha Bhatia and Jeremy M. Grimshaw

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:106

    Content type: Research

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  49. Despite recent improvements in the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the UK, deaths from CVD are relatively high compared with other high-income countries. An estimated 7 million people in the UK are l...

    Authors: Olalekan A. Uthman, Lena Al-Khudairy, Chidozie U. Nduka, Rachel Court, Hema Mistry, G . J. Melendez-Torres, Sian Taylor-Phillips and Aileen Clarke

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:105

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  50. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is one of the angiogenesis regulators, which plays an important role in tumor angiogenesis and tumor progression. Current studies have found that VEGF plays an importa...

    Authors: Mingzhu Song, Huiping Wang and Qianling Ye

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2020 9:103

    Content type: Systematic review update

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