Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder Not Participating in an RCT: Are They Different? [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Despite the notion that randomized controlled trials are regarded as the gold standard in psychotherapy research, questions about their generalizability have been raised. This paper focuses on the differences between participants and eligible
Buchheim, Peter +5 more
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Weight of evidence: a framework for the appraisal of the quality and relevance of evidence [PDF]
, 2007 Knowledge use and production is complex and so also are attempts to judge its quality. Research synthesis is a set of formal processes to determine what is known from research in relation to different research questions and this process requires ...
Gough, David
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Fibrinogen concentrate in surgery [PDF]
, 2017 Fibrinogen is a plasma glycoprotein synthesised by the liver which plays a critical role in haemostasis by acting as an endogenous substrate for fibrin formation and by inducing clot formation and platelet ...
Franchini, Massimo +6 more
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Wound healing effects of topical Vitamin K: A randomized controlled trial
Indian Journal of Pharmacology, 2019 The incidence of acute and chronic wounds has rapidly increased which treatment remains as health problem. Previously, we reported the healing effect of Vitamin K in experimental animal models. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of topical Vitamin K on skin wound healing process in patients.Sixty-three patients with indication for ...
Pazyar, Nader +5 more
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Adverse events and safety issues associated with physical activity and exercise for adults with osteoporosis and osteopenia: A systematic review of observational studies and an updated review of interventional studies [PDF]
, 2018 Objectives: We conducted a systematic review to identify adverse effects of physical activity and/or exercise for adults with osteoporosis/osteopenia. We synthesised evidence from observational studies, and updated three previously published systematic ...
Clark, Emma M. +7 more
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OnabotulinumtoxinA for neurogenic detrusor overactivity and dose differences: a systematic review
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2015 Purpose To evaluate the efficacy and safety of onabotulinumtoxinA for patients with neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO). Materials and Methods We searched the Cochrane Library, PUBMED, EMBASE, Chinese Bio-medicine database, China Journal Full-text ...
Rui Zhang +5 more
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Randomized Controlled Trial of Topical Aspirin in the Treatment of Bee and Wasp Stings
Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, 2003 The New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (NSW PIC) has been recommending the use of topical aspirin paste for bee and wasp stings since the early 1980s. Anecdotal evidence from calls suggested it was effective in reducing the swelling and duration of pain, but a literature search found no evidence to support this.The objective of this study was ...
Balit, Corrine +2 more
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Timing and volume of fluid administration for patients with bleeding [PDF]
, 2003 Original article can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com Copyright John Wiley & Sons. ‘This review is published as a Cochrane Review in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003, Issue 3.
Bunn, Frances, Kwan, I., Roberts, I.
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BMC Cancer, 2020 Background Pain self-management support interventions were effective in controlled clinical trials and meta analyses. However, implementation of these complex interventions may not translate into identical effects. This paper evaluates the implementation
Silvia Raphaelis +3 more
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Estimates of the mean difference in orthopaedic randomized trials: obligatory yet obscure
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2021 Background Randomized controlled trials in orthopaedics are powered to mainly find large effect sizes. A possible discrepancy between the estimated and the real mean difference is a challenge for statistical inference based on p-values.
Lauri Raittio +3 more
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