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Certainty of evidence, why? [PDF]

open access: yesJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2023
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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The technical paper on efficacy and safety of the medical use of cannabis and cannabis-derived finished products is not a systematic review

open access: yesRevista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2023
I am writing to you regarding the recent publication (December 2022) by the Instituto de Evaluación Tecnológica en Salud (Institute for Health Technology Assessment - IETS by its acronym in Spanish) of the Documento técnico para el desarrollo de una ...
Gustavo Ortega-Mora
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The effect of perioperative pelvic floor muscle exercise on urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy: a meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2023
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]

open access: yesScience Editing, 2023
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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Meta-epidemiology [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2014
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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Topical NSAIDs for acute pain: a meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Family Practice, 2004
A previous systematic review reported that topical NSAIDs were effective in relieving pain in acute conditions like sprains and strains, with differences between individual drugs for efficacy. More trials, a better understanding of trial quality and bias, and a reclassification of certain drugs necessitate a new review.Studies were identified by ...
Mason, L   +4 more
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How to review and assess a systematic review and meta-analysis article: a methodological study (secondary publication) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

An overview of systematic reviews of diagnostic tests accuracy [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2014
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
doaj   +1 more source

REGISTERING AND REPORTING SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

open access: yesCentral Asian Journal of Medical Hypotheses and Ethics, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

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]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

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