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Using patient values and preferences to inform the importance of health outcomes in practice guideline development following the GRADE approach

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background There are diverse opinions and confusion about defining and including patient values and preferences (i.e. the importance people place on the health outcomes) in the guideline development processes.
Yuan Zhang, Pablo Alonso Coello, Jan Brożek, Wojtek Wiercioch, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Elie A. Akl, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Waleed Alhazzani, Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Rebecca L. Morgan, Reem A. Mustafa, John J. Riva, Ainsley Moore, Juan José Yepes-Nuñez, Carlos Cuello-Garcia, Zulfa AlRayees, Veena Manja, Maicon Falavigna, Ignacio Neumann, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Nancy Santesso, Bram Rochwerg, Andrea Darzi, Maria Ximena Rojas, Yaser Adi, Claudia Bollig, Reem Waziry, Holger J. Schünemann   +27 more
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Motivational interviewing to promote healthy behaviors for obesity prevention in young adults (MOTIVATE): a pilot randomized controlled trial protocol

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2023
Background Obesity is a chronic disease and is an established risk factor for other chronic diseases and mortality. Young adulthood is a period when people may be highly amenable to healthy behavior change, develop lifelong healthy behaviors, and when ...
Laura N. Anderson, Elizabeth Alvarez, Taylor Incze, Jean-Eric Tarride, Matthew Kwan, Lawrence Mbuagbaw   +5 more
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Mathematical modelling of elastic vibrations arising from four-body impact interaction [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
This paper presents a mathematical model of elastic vibrations arising from shock interaction in a four-body system. The resulting model has two applications: the study of linear elastic interaction and the study of nonlinear elastic interaction.
Vyplaven V.S., Gulyaev M.A., Popkov A.A., Becher S.A., Shlyakhtenkov S.P., Bobrov A.L.   +5 more
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Teaching research methods: Introducing a psychogeographical approach [PDF]

, 2019
This paper explores teaching business students research methods using a psychogeographical approach, specifically the technique of dérive. It responds to calls for new ways of teaching in higher education and addresses the dearth of literature on ...
Hindley, C., Hindley, C., Knowles, D., Knowles, D., Ruth, D., Ruth, D.   +5 more
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Abrupt transitions in time series with uncertainties

Nature Communications, 2018
Most time series techniques tend to ignore data uncertainties, which results in inaccurate conclusions. Here, Goswami et al. represent time series as a sequence of probability density functions, and reliably detect abrupt transitions by identifying ...
Bedartha Goswami, Niklas Boers, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, Norbert Marwan, Jobst Heitzig, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Jürgen Kurths   +6 more
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Designs of trials assessing interventions to improve the peer review process: a vignette-based survey

BMC Medicine, 2018
Background We aimed to determine the best study designs for assessing interventions to improve the peer review process according to experts’ opinions. Furthermore, for interventions previously evaluated, we determined whether the study designs actually ...
Amytis Heim, Philippe Ravaud, Gabriel Baron, Isabelle Boutron   +3 more
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Research Methods: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers [PDF]

, 2018
Willie Tan Research Methods: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2017 ISBN: 978-981-3229-58-7 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-981-3229-61-7 (softcover).
Runeson, Göran
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Opioid-sparing effects of medical cannabis or cannabinoids for chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised and observational studies

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To assess the efficacy and harms of adding medical cannabis to prescription opioids among people living with chronic pain.Design Systematic review.Data sources CENTRAL, EMBASE and MEDLINE.Main outcomes and measures Opioid dose reduction, pain ...
Lehana Thabane, Jason W Busse, Gordon H Guyatt, Thomas Agoritsas, Mohit Bhandari, Anna Miroshnychenko, D Norman Buckley, Vahid Ashoorion, Rachel J Couban, Atefeh Noori, Yaadwinder Shergill, Yasir Rehman   +11 more
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Research Methods: Mixed Methods Research.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2016
No abstract.
Virginia Wilson
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Impact of disasters, including pandemics, on cardiometabolic outcomes across the life-course: a systematic review

BMJ Open, 2021
Background Disasters are events that disrupt the daily functioning of a community or society, and may increase long-term risk of adverse cardiometabolic outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes.
Sarah E Neil-Sztramko, Elizabeth Alvarez, Laura N Anderson, Vanessa De Rubeis, Jinhee Lee, Muhammad Saqib Anwer, Yulika Yoshida-Montezuma, Alessandra T Andreacchi, Erica Stone, Saman Iftikhar, Jason D Morgenstern, Reid Rebinsky, Emma Apatu   +12 more
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