Risk of postoperative pulmonary complications in adult surgical patients with metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is defined as an accumulation of risk factors that include chronic hypertension, dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance and obesity and leads to an increased risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Gow, Jeffrey +4 more
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On the Ground Validation of Online Diagnosis with Twitter and Medical Records [PDF]
, 2014 Social media has been considered as a data source for tracking disease. However, most analyses are based on models that prioritize strong correlation with population-level disease rates over determining whether or not specific individual users are ...
Barclay, Victoria C +4 more
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Preventive effects of 13 different drugs on colorectal cancer: a network meta-analysis
Archives of Medical Science, 2023 Introduction The aim of the study was to evaluate the preventive effect of 13 drugs on colorectal cancer (CRC) and guide the clinical application of these drugs.
Qi Fu +5 more
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Network meta-analysis: application and practice using R software [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2019 The objective of this study is to describe the general approaches to network meta-analysis that are available for quantitative data synthesis using R software.
Sung Ryul Shim +3 more
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023 ObjectiveThis network meta-analysis aimed to compare and rank the efficacy of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) and pet-robotic therapy (PRT) in the management of dementia.MethodsRelevant studies were identified by searching PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane ...
Hongdi Du +4 more
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Two new approaches for the visualisation of models for network meta-analysis
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019 Background Meta-analysis is a useful tool for combining evidence from multiple studies to estimate a pooled treatment effect. An extension of meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, is becoming more commonly used as a way to simultaneously compare multiple
Martin Law +4 more
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Permutation inference methods for multivariate meta-analysis
, 2019 Multivariate meta-analysis is gaining prominence in evidence synthesis research because it enables simultaneous synthesis of multiple correlated outcome data, and random-effects models have generally been used for addressing between-studies ...
Furukawa, Toshi A. +2 more
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Predicting Anchor Links between Heterogeneous Social Networks
, 2016 People usually get involved in multiple social networks to enjoy new services or to fulfill their needs. Many new social networks try to attract users of other existing networks to increase the number of their users. Once a user (called source user) of a
Khodadadi, Ali +2 more
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Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of five common tumour biomarkers and CA19-9 for pancreatic cancer: a protocol for a network meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction: Surgical resection is the only curative treatment for patients with resectable pancreatic cancer. Unfortunately, 80%–85% of patients present with locally advanced or metastatic unresectable pancreatic cancer at the time of diagnosis ...
Ge, Long +6 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior +7 more
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