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Management strategies for patients with subclinical hypothyroidism: a protocol for an umbrella review

Systematic Reviews, 2021
Background Subclinical hypothyroidism is a thyroid disorder diagnosed from the laboratory blood test results of otherwise asymptomatic patients. It has been associated with poor cardiovascular outcomes, mortality and progression to overt thyroid hormone ...
Brenda S. Bauer, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Utkarsh Agrawal, Colin McCowan   +3 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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How are systematic reviews of prevalence conducted? A methodological study

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020
Background There is a notable lack of methodological and reporting guidance for systematic reviews of prevalence data. This information void has the potential to result in reviews that are inconsistent and inadequate to inform healthcare policy and ...
Celina Borges Migliavaca, Cinara Stein, Verônica Colpani, Timothy Hugh Barker, Zachary Munn, Maicon Falavigna, on behalf of the Prevalence Estimates Reviews – Systematic Review Methodology Group (PERSyst)   +6 more
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Peer support for people with chronic conditions: a systematic review of reviews

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background People with chronic conditions experience functional impairment, lower quality of life, and greater economic hardship and poverty. Social isolation and loneliness are common for people with chronic conditions, with multiple co-occurring ...
Dean M. Thompson, Lesley Booth, David Moore, Jonathan Mathers   +3 more
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The determinants of COVID-19 vaccination intention: a meta-review

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundA large number of systematic reviews have been published that synthesized various determinants of COVID-19 vaccination intention (CVI). However, they reported inconsistent evidence.
Yam B. Limbu, Rajesh K. Gautam
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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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Strategies and Barriers in Clinical Practice Guidelines Implementation [PDF]

Farmacja Polska, 2023
Object of study Clinical practice guidelines are a set of recommendations formulated in a systematic way by a panel of experts in a particular field. Their purpose is to assist the healthcare professionals in making decisions about appropriate health ...
Magdalena Zielińska, Magdalena Damentko, Kinga Dziok-Dmowska, Sylwia Zemlik, Tomasz Hermanowski   +4 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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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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Systematic reviews of antihypertensive drugs: A review of publication trends, characteristics, and quality

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2021
This review presents publication trends, characteristics, and quality of systematic reviews (SRs) of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of antihypertensive drugs (AHTDs). Between 1985 and 2017, 1,173 SRs were published, and in the last 20 years, 10, 35,
Hariprasad Esam, Raju Kanukula, Rupasvi Dhurjati, Rupa Aerram, Sindhujareddy Chevireddy, Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Emily Atkins, Mark D. Huffman, Anthony Rodgers, Abdul Salam   +9 more
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