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  1. Content type: Protocol

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasize the need for strengthening the capacity of all developing countries in the early warning, risk reduction and management of national as well as global health r...

    Authors: Neusa Fernanda Torres, Buyisile Chibi, Lyn E. Middleton, Vernon P. Solomon and Tivani Mashamba-Thompson

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:102

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    Patient-Oriented Research (POR) is a Canadian initiative for health research that refers to research processes informed by full and active patient involvement in all aspects of the research. Ideally, POR resul...

    Authors: Anastasia A. Mallidou, Noreen Frisch, Mary M. Doyle-Waters, Martha L. P. MacLeod, John Ward and Pat Atherton

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:101

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    When patients have been on opioid therapy for more than 90 days, more than half of them continue using opioids years later. Knowing that long-term opioid consumption could lead to harmful side effects includin...

    Authors: M. Gabrielle Pagé, Irina Kudrina, Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun, Daniela Ziegler, Pierre Beaulieu, Céline Charbonneau, Jennifer Cogan, Raoul Daoust, Marc O. Martel, Andrée Néron, Philippe Richebé and Hance Clarke

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:97

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  4. Content type: Research

    There is considerable interest in the impact of increased flavan-3-ol intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes outcomes. Through evidence mapping, we determined the extent of the evidence base to in...

    Authors: Gowri Raman, Marissa Shams-White, Esther E. Avendano, Fan Chen, Janet A. Novotny and Aedin Cassidy

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:100

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  5. Content type: Protocol

    Systematic review (SR) guidelines recommend extending literature search to gray literature in order to identify all available data related to the review topic. We aim to conduct an overview of SRs on populatio...

    Authors: Karima Chaabna, Sohaila Cheema, Amit Abraham, Hekmat Alrouh, Ravinder Mamtani and Javaid I. Sheikh

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:94

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    Diabetes mellitus (DM) in women of childbearing age may affect the fetus, thereby accelerating the intergenerational risk of DM. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is experiencing a growing epidemi...

    Authors: Rami H. Al-Rifai and Faisal Aziz

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:96

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  8. Content type: Protocol

    Glucose abnormalities in cystic fibrosis (CF) are common, but there is limited evidence to guide their dietary management. Progressive impaired glucose tolerance eventually leads to cystic fibrosis-related dia...

    Authors: Laura Birch, Fiona E. Lithander, Simon Langton Hewer, Katie Harriman, Julian Hamilton-Shield and Rachel Perry

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:98

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  9. Content type: Protocol

    Pediatric epilepsy, including treatment-resistant forms, has a major effect on the quality of life, morbidity, and mortality of affected children. Interest has been growing in the use of medical cannabis as a ...

    Authors: Jesse Elliott, Deirdre DeJean, Tammy Clifford, Doug Coyle, Beth Potter, Becky Skidmore, Christine Alexander, Alexander E. Repetski, Bláthnaid McCoy and George A. Wells

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:95

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  10. Content type: Protocol

    ‘Pain rewarded’ is a hypothesis wherein acute pain sufferers are exposed to reinforcers and punishers from their environment that shape their behaviour, i.e. pain responses. Such a point of view has been taken...

    Authors: Wacław M. Adamczyk, Kerstin Luedtke, Ewa Buglewicz and Przemysław Bąbel

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:93

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  11. Content type: Protocol

    As general population life expectancy has increased, the need to investigate the quality of life has arisen, especially because it is important that people have a healthy long life and with good quality. Studi...

    Authors: Janete Capel Hernandes, Viviane Cruvinel Di Castro, Mauro Elias Mendonça and Celmo Celeno Porto

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:92

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  12. Content type: Protocol

    Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT), a standard of care for locally advanced breast cancer patients, is widely used for early breast cancer patients also. The varying role of regimens used as NACT needs to be inve...

    Authors: Mona Pathak, Sada Nand Dwivedi, S. V. S. Deo, Bhaskar Thakur, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas and G. K. Rath

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:89

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  13. Content type: Protocol

    Individuals with substance use and addictive disorders often display greater risk-taking behaviour, higher impulsivity, and altered reward processing compared to individuals without these disorders. While it i...

    Authors: Katherine R. Naish, Lana Vedelago, James MacKillop and Michael Amlung

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:90

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  14. Content type: Protocol

    Dementia is a globally prevalent disease that requires ongoing and increasing levels of care, often provided in the first instance by informal caregivers. Supporting transitions in informal caregiving in demen...

    Authors: Marianne Cranwell, Anna Gavine, Linda McSwiggan and Timothy B. Kelly

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:91

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    Menu labelling is continuing to gather public and legislative support as one of the potential environmental strategies for addressing the obesity pandemic. However, issues relating to implementation have been ...

    Authors: Claire Kerins, Jennifer McSharry, Catherine Hayes, Ivan J. Perry, Fiona Geaney and Colette Kelly

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:88

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  16. Content type: Editorial

    The journal recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Like systematic reviews themselves, the journal is thriving and publishing a variety of protocols, reviews, and methods papers. We have also had success i...

    Authors: David Moher, Lesley A. Stewart and Paul Shekelle

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:87

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  17. Content type: Protocol

    Meningococcal disease (MD) is notoriously difficult to diagnose in the early stages of the illness and presents similarly to many self-limiting viral infections. This mandates a cautious approach to diagnosis ...

    Authors: Thomas Waterfield, Derek Fairley, Fiona Lynn, Bronagh Blackwood and Michael D. Shields

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:86

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  18. Content type: Research

    Self-management support interventions may potentially delay kidney function decline and associated complications in patients with comorbid diabetes and chronic kidney disease. However, the effectiveness of the...

    Authors: Edward Zimbudzi, Clement Lo, Marie L. Misso, Sanjeeva Ranasinha, Peter G. Kerr, Helena J. Teede and Sophia Zoungas

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:84

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  19. Content type: Protocol

    Systematic reviews (SRs) of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) can provide the best evidence to inform decision-making, but their methodological and reporting quality varies. Tools exist to guide the critical...

    Authors: Allison Gates, Michelle Gates, Gonçalo Duarte, Maria Cary, Monika Becker, Barbara Prediger, Ben Vandermeer, Ricardo M. Fernandes, Dawid Pieper and Lisa Hartling

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:85

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  20. Content type: Protocol

    Non-infectious uveitis represents a sub-type of intraocular inflammation often associated with disorders of immune dysregulation. If untreated, the intraocular inflammation may progress to severe visual impair...

    Authors: Joshua Blair, Robert Barry, Philip I. Murray, David J. Moore and Alastair K. Denniston

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:83

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  21. Content type: Research

    Early diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is important because antiretroviral therapies are more effective if infected individuals are diagnosed early. Diagnosis of HIV relies on laboratory testing...

    Authors: Benhildah N. Rumbwere Dube, Tom P. Marshall, Ronan P. Ryan and Modupe Omonijo

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:82

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  22. Content type: Research

    Anemia continued to become a major public health problem in developing nations including Ethiopia. Especially, school children are more vulnerable for anemia and consequences of anemia. Generating accurate epi...

    Authors: Robel Tezera, Zekariyas Sahile, Delelegn Yilma, Equilnet Misganaw and Ermiyas Mulu

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:80

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  23. Content type: Protocol

    Of various chronic diseases, low back pain (LBP) is the most common and debilitating musculoskeletal condition among older adults aged 65 years or older. While more than 17 million older adults in the USA suff...

    Authors: Arnold Y. L. Wong, Katarina Sjögren Forss, Jenny Jakobsson, Veronika Schoeb, Christine Kumlien and Gunilla Borglin

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:81

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  24. Content type: Protocol

    Conducting a health technology assessment (HTA) of public health interventions (PHIs) poses some challenges. PHIs are often complex interventions, which affect the number and degree of interactions of the aspe...

    Authors: Tim Mathes, Gerald Willms, Stephanie Polus, Constance Stegbauer, Melanie Messer, Corinna Klingler, Heidi Ehrenreich, Dea Niebuhr, Georg Marckmann, Ansgar Gerhardus and Dawid Pieper

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:79

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  25. Content type: Protocol

    Needle-related procedures are the most important source of pain in children in hospital setting. Unmanaged pain could result in short- and long-term physiological, psychological, and emotional consequences. Al...

    Authors: Ariane Ballard, Christelle Khadra, Samara Adler, Evelyne Doyon-Trottier and Sylvie Le May

    Citation: Systematic Reviews 2018 7:78

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