Haematospermia – A Systematic Review [PDF]
Haematospermia (or haemospermia) is a distressing symptom in sexually active men. In most cases, it is caused by non-specific inflammation of the prostate and seminal vesicles. In a small percentage of men, however, it may be a manifestation of genito-urinary or systemic malignancy, in particular prostate cancer.
P. Kumar, S. Kapoor, V. Nargund
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A Systematic Review on Travel Medicine Practice to Control Transmission of Communicable Diseases [PDF]
Background: The number of international travelers is estimated at 900 million per year and is projected to reach 1.6 billion per year in 2020. Travel medicine is devoted to the health of travelers who visit foreign countries.
Bachtiar, A. (Adang ) +1 more
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Using media to impact health policy-making: an integrative systematic review
Introduction Media interventions can potentially play a major role in influencing health policies. This integrative systematic review aimed to assess the effects of planned media interventions—including social media—on the health policy-making process ...
Lama Bou-Karroum +12 more
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A systematic review of how studies describe educational interventions for evidence-based practice:Stage 1 of the development of a reporting guideline [PDF]
Background The aim of this systematic review was to identify which information is included when reporting educational interventions used to facilitate foundational skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice (EBP) training for health ...
Galipeau, James +8 more
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Public sector reforms and their impact on the level of corruption: A systematic review
Executive summary/Abstract Background In spite of the large number of anti‐corruption reforms implemented in different countries, there has been little research that empirically and systematically assesses the impact of these efforts. Objectives The main
Giulia Mugellini +4 more
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Objective: To determine the risk difference and 95% prediction intervals (PIs) for postoperative infections (POIs) associated with preoperative epidural steroid injections (ESIs) in adults undergoing lumbar or cervical spine surgery.
W. Michael Hooten, MD +5 more
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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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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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Systematic reviews retrieve, appraise and summarise all the available evidence on a specific health question. They are designed to reduce the effect of the reviewers' own bias, and a full protocol should be written to define and guide the process. The appropriate resources should be in place before undertaking a review.
Adrian, White, Katja, Schmidt
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The problems with systematic reviews: a living systematic review
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are proliferating as they are an important building block to inform evidence-based guidelines and decision-making. Enforcement of best practice in clinical trials is firmly on the research agenda of good clinical practice, but there is less clarity as to how evidence syntheses that combine these studies can be ...
Uttley, L. +7 more
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