Assessment of publication bias and outcome reporting bias in systematic reviews of health services and delivery research:A meta-epidemiological study [PDF]
Strategies to identify and mitigate publication bias and outcome reporting bias are frequently adopted in systematic reviews of clinical interventions but it is not clear how often these are applied in systematic reviews relating to quantitative health ...
Ayorinde, Abimbola A. +6 more
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Background: There are currently numerous innovations in peer review and quality assurance in scholarly publishing. The Research on Research Institute conducted a programme of co-produced projects investigating these innovations.
Helen Buckley Woods +4 more
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Shades of Grey: guidelines for working with the grey literature in systematic reviews for management and organizational studies [PDF]
This paper suggests how the ‘grey literature’, the diverse and heterogeneous body of material that is made public outside, and not subject to, traditional academic peer-review processes, can be used to increase the relevance and impact of management and ...
Adams, Richard J. +2 more
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Gender differences in the impact of population-level alcohol policy interventions: evidence synthesis of systematic reviews [PDF]
Background: Consistent review-level evidence supports the effectiveness of population-level alcohol policies in reducing alcohol-related harms. Such policies interact with well-established social, cultural and biological differences in how men and women ...
Amos +106 more
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Emerging from out of the shadows? Service user and carer involvement in systematic reviews [PDF]
The systematic review methodology literature refers to the importance of involving stakeholders, including service users and carers, in the research. However, compared with other aspects of the methodology, this aspect of conducting systematic reviews is
Braye, Suzy, Preston-Shoot, Michael
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Background For over three decades researchers have developed critical appraisal tools (CATs) for assessing the scientific quality of research overviews.
Thomas L. Heise +7 more
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Glaucoma and cigarette smoking: a review of narrative reviews [PDF]
Background: Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy associated with visual field changes for which high intra-ocular pressure is a major risk factor. Emerging research indicates that modifiable factors, among which the cigarette smoke, besides IOP may be ...
DI MURRO, FRANCESCA +3 more
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The impact of Cochrane Systematic Reviews : a mixed method evaluation of outputs from Cochrane Review Groups supported by the UK National Institute for Health Research [PDF]
© 2014 Bunn et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
A Boaz +57 more
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Factors affecting the credibility of online reviews on TIKI: An assessment study in Vietnam [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to test the determinants affecting the credibility of online reviews. In this model, the relationships between argument quality and peripheral cue and credibility of online reviews were evaluated.
Van Dat Tran, Thu Kiet Can
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Mapping the crime reduction evidence base: a descriptive analysis of the WP1 Systematic Review Database. [PDF]
This document gives some summary statistics for the sample of systematic reviews that met the WP1 inclusion criteria. These criteria are documented in the systematic review protocol for this work package. In summary, the final list of studies constituted
Bowers, KJ, Tompson, LA
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