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Guidance for overviews of reviews continues to accumulate, but important challenges remain: a scoping review

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background Overviews of reviews (overviews) provide an invaluable resource for healthcare decision-making by combining large volumes of systematic review (SR) data into a single synthesis.
Michelle Gates, Allison Gates, Samantha Guitard, Michelle Pollock, Lisa Hartling   +4 more
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Database combinations to retrieve systematic reviews in overviews of reviews: a methodological study

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020
Background When conducting an Overviews of Reviews on health-related topics, it is unclear which combination of bibliographic databases authors should use for searching for SRs.
Käthe Goossen, Simone Hess, Carole Lunny, Dawid Pieper   +3 more
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Overview of the pathogenesis of COVID‑19 (Review)

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 2021
At present, the pathogenesis of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has not been fully elucidated. Clinical and experimental findings from studies investigating COVID-19 have suggested that the immune-inflammatory response has a crucial role in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
Li, Chao, He, Qifang, Qian, Hebu, Liu, Jun   +3 more
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Toward a comprehensive evidence map of overview of systematic review methods: paper 1—purpose, eligibility, search and data extraction

Systematic Reviews, 2017
Background Overviews of systematic reviews attempt to systematically retrieve and summarise the results of multiple systematic reviews. Methods for conducting, interpreting and reporting overviews are in their infancy. To date, there has been no evidence
Carole Lunny, Sue E. Brennan, Steve McDonald, Joanne E. McKenzie   +3 more
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Toward a comprehensive evidence map of overview of systematic review methods: paper 2—risk of bias assessment; synthesis, presentation and summary of the findings; and assessment of the certainty of the evidence

Systematic Reviews, 2018
Background Overviews of systematic reviews (SRs) attempt to systematically retrieve and summarise the results of multiple systematic reviews. This is the second of two papers from a study aiming to develop a comprehensive evidence map of the methods used
Carole Lunny, Sue E. Brennan, Steve McDonald, Joanne E. McKenzie   +3 more
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Is equity considered in systematic reviews of interventions for mitigating social isolation and loneliness in older adults?

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Social isolation and loneliness affect one in four older adults in many regions around the world. Social isolation and loneliness are shown to be associated with declines in physical and mental health.
Mohamad Tarek Madani, Leen Madani, Elizabeth Tanjong Ghogomu, Simone Dahrouge, Paul C. Hébert, Clara Juando-Prats, Kate Mulligan, Vivian Welch   +7 more
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Overview of systematic reviews in allergy epidemiology [PDF]

Allergy, 2017
AbstractBackgroundThere is a substantial body of evidence on the epidemiology of allergic conditions, which has advanced the understanding of these conditions. We aimed to systematically identify systematic reviews and meta‐analyses on the epidemiology of allergic diseases to assess what has been studied comprehensively and what areas might benefit ...
Genuneit J, Seibold AM, Apfelbacher CJ, Konstantinou GN, Koplin JJ, La Grutta S, Logan K, Perkin MR, Flohr C, Task Force Overview of Systematic Reviews in Allergy Epidemiology OSRAE of the EAACI Interest Group on Epidemiology   +9 more
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PFAS exposure of humans, animals and the environment: Protocol of an evidence review map and bibliometric analysis

Environment International, 2022
Background: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances are a group of anthropogenic organic chemicals. PFAS have numerous applications in the industrial and commercial fields.
Catharina Vendl, Matthew D. Taylor, Jennifer Bräunig, Matthew J. Gibson, Daniel Hesselson, G. Gregory Neely, Malgorzata Lagisz, Shinichi Nakagawa   +7 more
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Effectiveness of interventions for prevention of common infections in people who use opioids: a protocol for a systematic review of systematic reviews

Systematic Reviews, 2021
Background The North American opioid crisis is driven by opioid-related mortality and morbidity, including opioid use-associated infections (OUAIs), resulting in a substantial burden for society.
Irina Kudrina, Svetlana Puzhko, Kristian B. Filion, Genevieve Gore, Elena Paraskevopoulos, Sarah Windle, Marc O. Martel, Mark J. Eisenberg   +7 more
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Non-communicable diseases research output in the Eastern Mediterranean region: an overview of systematic reviews

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020
Background Rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rapidly rising in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Systematic reviews satisfy the demand from practitioners and policy makers for prompt comprehensive evidence.
Alaa Akkawi, Joanne Khabsa, Aya Noubani, Sarah Jamali, Abla M. Sibai, Tamara Lotfi   +5 more
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