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Intraoperative computed tomography for detection of residual stones in endourology procedures: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

International Brazilian Journal of Urology
Background: Success rates in endourological procedures, notably percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and ureteroscopy (URS), have demonstrated suboptimal outcomes, leading to more reinterventions and radiation exposure. Recently, the use of intraoperative
Henrique L. Lepine, Fabio C. Vicentini, Eduardo Mazzucchi, Wilson R. Molina, Giovanni S. Marchini, Fabio C. Torricelli, Carlos A. Batagello, Alexandre Danilovic, William C. Nahas   +8 more
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Analgesic medicines for adults with low back pain: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background There is limited evidence for the comparative effectiveness of analgesic medicines for adults with low back pain. This systematic review and network meta-analysis aims to determine the analgesic effect, safety, acceptability, effect on ...
Michael A. Wewege, Matthew K. Bagg, Matthew D. Jones, James H. McAuley, The ANiMALIA investigators   +4 more
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Prevalence and risk factors of incidental prostate cancer in certain surgeries for benign prostatic hyperplasia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2022
Background: This study aimed to explore the prevalence and clinical risk factors in patients diagnosed with incidental prostate cancer (IPC) during certain surgeries (transurethral resection of the prostate [TURP], open prostatectomy [OP], and holmium ...
Zhenlang Guo, Junwei He, Lijuan Huang, Zhaohui Wang, Ping Hu, Shusheng Wang, Zunguang Bai, Jun Pan   +7 more
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From pre-registration to publication: a nontechnical primer for conducting a meta-analysis to synthesize correlational data

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Meta-analysis synthesizes a body of research investigating a common research question. Outcomes from meta-analyses provide a more objective and transparent summary of a research area than traditional narrative reviews.
Daniel S Quintana, Daniel S Quintana
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Correlation Analysis of Variables From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
The need to test chemicals in a timely and cost-effective manner has driven the development of new alternative methods (NAMs) that utilize in silico and in vitro approaches for toxicity prediction.
Meisha Mandal, Josh Levy, Cataia Ives, Stephen Hwang, Yi-Hui Zhou, Yi-Hui Zhou, Alison Motsinger-Reif, Huaqin Pan, Wayne Huggins, Carol Hamilton, Fred Wright, Fred Wright, Stephen Edwards   +12 more
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Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Meta Learning

, 2020
Learning what to share between tasks has been a topic of great importance recently, as strategic sharing of knowledge has been shown to improve downstream task performance.
Augenstein, Isabelle, Bekoulis, Giannis, Bjerva, Johannes, Nooralahzadeh, Farhad   +3 more
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Triangulating meta-analyses:the example of the serotonin transporter gene, stressful life events and major depression [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis is intended as a tool for the objective synthesis of evidence across a literature, in order to obtain the best evidence as to whether or not an association or effect is robust.
Munafò, Marcus R, Taylor, Amy E
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Selection models with monotone weight functions in meta analysis [PDF]

, 2011
Publication bias, the fact that studies identified for inclusion in a meta analysis do not represent all studies on the topic of interest, is commonly recognized as a threat to the validity of the results of a meta analysis.
Carpenter, Copas, Copas, Copas, Copas, Dear, Fan, Ghosh, Givens, Hackshaw, Hedges, Hedges, Hedges, Hedges, Hedges, Hedges, Iyengar, Iyengar, Kelly, Knuth, Lamport, Lee, Leisch, Macaskill, Murphy, Peng, Preston, R Development Core Team, Rufibach, Silliman, Silliman, Storn, Sun, Sutton, Sutton, Woodroofe   +35 more
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Retrograde intrarenal surgery with or without ureteral access sheath: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [PDF]

International Brazilian Journal of Urology
Introduction: The ureteral access sheath (UAS) is a medical device that enables repeated entrance into the ureter and collecting system during retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS).
Lucas Guimarães Campos Roriz de Amorim, Marcelo Esteves Chaves Campos, Lígia Sant’Ana Dumont, José Augusto Rojas Peñafiel, Eliabe Silva de Abreu, Giovanni Scala Marchini, Manoj Monga, Eduardo Mazzucchi   +7 more
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The Inhibition of Complement System in Formal and Emerging Indications: Results from Parallel One-Stage Pairwise and Network Meta-Analyses of Clinical Trials and Real-Life Data Studies

Biomedicines, 2020
This manuscript presents quantitative findings on the actual effectiveness of terminal complement component 5 (C5) inhibitors and complement component 1 (C1) esterase inhibitors through their formal and common “off-label” (compassionate) indications. The
Coralina Bernuy-Guevara, Hassib Chehade, Yannick D. Muller, Julien Vionnet, François Cachat, Gabriella Guzzo, Carlos Ochoa-Sangrador, F. Javier Álvarez, Daniel Teta, Débora Martín-García, Marcel Adler, Félix J. de Paz, Frank Lizaraso-Soto, Manuel Pascual, Francisco Herrera-Gómez   +14 more
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