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Hip fractures are a major public health problem in elderly populations and are accompanied by high-mortality rates. Whether timing of surgery has an impact on morbidity and mortality has been discussed controv...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:164
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Acute low back pain (ALBP) is the top cause of global disability, demonstrating a significant impact on individuals and society and demanding the need for appropriate management. There is a trend towards an in...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:163
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Recent increasing trends in breast cancer incidence and survival have resulted in unprecedented numbers of cancer survivors in the general population. A cancer diagnosis may have a profound psychological impac...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:162
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Head and neck cancers include malignancies of the mouth, larynx and oropharynx. Tobacco use and alcohol consumption are associated with increased risks of developing and dying from head and neck cancer. The ai...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:161
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research
Systematic identification of evidence in health policy can be time-consuming and challenging. This study examines three questions pertaining to systematic reviews on obesity prevention policy, in order to iden...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:156
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Care transitions from the hospital to home are critical to the sustainability of our health care system. Ineffective care transitions can be caused by high incidences of post-discharge adverse events, by poor ...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:158
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Because of the enormous social and economic burden of disease, the prevention of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s-type dementia has become a major global public health priority. Studies show that cogn...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:157
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) morbidity appears to be high in Mongolia. Yet, the scale and nature of the infection burden is not well-understood. Our study’s objective is to systematically review and synthetize all ...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:160
Published on: 8 August 2017
Commentary
Research synthesis is an important approach to summarizing a body of literature. Usually, the goal is to determine the effectiveness of an intervention, to determine the strength of association between two fac...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:159
Published on: 8 August 2017
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There are 43 state medical marijuana programs in the USA, yet limited evidence is available on the demographic characteristics of the patient population accessing these programs. Moreover, insights into the so...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:154
Published on: 7 August 2017
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Shared decision-making (SDM) is a patient-centred approach in which clinicians and patients work side-by-side to decide together on the best course of action for each patient’s particular situation. Six key el...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:155
Published on: 7 August 2017
Letter
Data extraction is one of the most time-consuming tasks in performing a systematic review. Extraction is often onto some sort of form. Sharing completed forms can be used to check quality and accuracy of extra...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:153
Published on: 4 August 2017
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Studies show that a large number of women around the world have experienced situations of abuse, disrespect, abuse, and neglect during childbirth and/or abortion. This violence is a serious violation of the ri...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:152
Published on: 3 August 2017
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Radical cystectomy is associated with high rates of perioperative morbidity. Robotic-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) is widely used today despite limited evidence for clinical superiority. The aim of this r...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:150
Published on: 2 August 2017
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Head and neck cancer incidence is increasing worldwide. Despite overall improvements in survival, numerous studies suggest worse survival in more disadvantaged populations; however, this literature has not bee...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:151
Published on: 2 August 2017
Research
Producing high-quality, relevant systematic reviews and keeping them up to date is challenging. Cochrane is a leading provider of systematic reviews in health. For Cochrane to continue to contribute to improve...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:147
Published on: 1 August 2017
Commentary
There is an increasing body of research documenting flaws in many published systematic reviews’ methodological and reporting conduct. When good systematic review practice is questioned, attention is rarely tur...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:149
Published on: 1 August 2017
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The use of electronic records in healthcare is increasing. To avoid errors, it is essential that the data displays used by these systems are usable: efficient, effective and satisfying. A wide variety of displ...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:148
Published on: 28 July 2017
Research
Guidelines for assessing methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews (SRs) were developed to contribute to implementing evidence-based health care and the reduction of research waste. As SRs ass...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:131
Published on: 19 July 2017
Methodology
Overviews of systematic reviews are an increasingly popular method of evidence synthesis; there is a lack of clear guidance for completing overviews and a number of methodological challenges. At the UK Cochran...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:145
Published on: 18 July 2017
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One of the most frequently used assessment tools that measure the trainees’ performance in workplace is the mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX), in which an expert observes and rates the actual perfor...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:146
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Occupational stress and burnout are highly prevalent among medical doctors and can have adverse effects on patient, doctor, and organisational outcomes. The purpose of the current study was to review and evalu...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:144
Published on: 17 July 2017
Methodology
To date there is no consensus about the optimal strategy for keeping clinical guidelines (CGs) up-to-date. The aims of this study were (1) to develop a continuous surveillance and updating strategy for CGs and...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:143
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Tuberculosis patients receiving anti-tuberculosis treatment may experience serious adverse drug reactions, such as hepatotoxicity. Genetic risk factors, such as polymorphisms of the NAT2, CYP2E1 and GSTM1 genes, ...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:142
Published on: 13 July 2017
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One of the most critical practices in mass casualty incident management is vacating the victims from scene of the incident and transporting them to proper healthcare facilities. Decision on distribution of cas...
Systematic Reviews 2017 6:141
Published on: 12 July 2017
