Certainty of evidence, why? [PDF]
Optimal clinical decision-making requires understanding of evidence regarding benefits, harms, and burdens of alternative management options. Rigorously conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses offer accurate summaries of the evidence.
João Pedro Lima+3 more
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Systematic reviews: Key concepts for health professionals
The exponential growth of currently available evidence has made it necessary to collect, filter, critically appraise, and synthesize biomedical information to keep up to date.
Nadia Sgarbossa+4 more
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The effect of perioperative pelvic floor muscle exercise on urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy: a meta-analysis [PDF]
Background: Pelvic floor muscle exercise (PFME) is the most common conservative management for urinary incontinence (UI) after radical prostatectomy (RP). We performed this meta-analysis to investigate whether PFME during the entire perioperative period,
Erkang Geng+6 more
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How to review and assess a systematic review and meta-analysis article [PDF]
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have become central in many research fields, particularly medicine. They offer the highest level of evidence in evidence-based medicine and support the development and revision of clinical practice guidelines, which ...
Seung-Kwon Myung
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The concept of meta-epidemiology has been introduced with considering the methodological limitations of systematic review for intervention trials. The paradigm of meta-epidemiology has shifted from a statistical method into a new methodology to close ...
Jong-Myon Bae
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How to review and assess a systematic review and meta-analysis article: a methodological study (secondary publication) [PDF]
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have become central in many research fields, particularly medicine. They offer the highest level of evidence in evidence-based medicine and support the development and revision of clinical practice guidelines, which ...
Seung-Kwon Myung
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Introduction to network meta-analysis for evidence synthesis
This article belongs to a collaborative methodological series of narrative reviews about biostatistics and clinical epidemiology. The goal is to present basics concepts concerning the systematics reviews of multiple treatments comparisons with network ...
Catalina Gracia González-Xuriguera+4 more
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An overview of systematic reviews of diagnostic tests accuracy [PDF]
The Cochrane Collaboration says that the Cochrane handbook for diagnostic test accuracy reviews (DTAR) is currently in development as per the Cochrane Collaboration. This implies that the methodology of systematic reviews (SR) of diagnostic test accuracy
Jong-Myon Bae
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REGISTERING AND REPORTING SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
Systematic reviews are considered as the highest rung in the ladder of evidence-based medicine. They are bound by a pre-defined structure and requirement for extensive literature searches, when compared with the more liberal format of narrative reviews ...
Pallavi Patro, Durga Prasanna Misra
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Survival rate of ceramic inlay and onlay restorations in posterior tooth with one-surface or multi-surface after 10 years observation: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Background/Aim. A large number of studies have been conducted on the survival rate of ceramic single tooth resto-rations, but few studies have discussed the influence of the number of restoration surfaces on their survival rate.
Zou Yun, Bai Jing, Xiang Jingzhou
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