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An AMSTAR assessment of the methodological quality of systematic reviews of oral healthcare interventions published in the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS) [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews are not an assembly of anecdotes but a distillation of current best available evidence on a particular topic and as such have an important role to play in evidence-based healthcare.
Sharif, Mohammad Owaise, Mohammad Owaise Sharif, Zbys Fedorowicz, Jagannath, Vanitha A, Vanitha A. Jagannath, Fedorowicz, Zbys, Jagannath, Vanitha A., Sequeira-Byron, Patrick, Patrick Sequeira-Byron   +8 more
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Designing tailored maintenance strategies for systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines using the Portfolio Maintenance by Test-Treatment (POMBYTT) framework

BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background Organizations face diverse contexts and requirements when updating and maintaining their portfolio, or pool, of systematic reviews or clinical practice guidelines they need to manage.
Michiel S. Oerbekke, Roy G. Elbers, Maarten J. van der Laan, Lotty Hooft   +3 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Bloodletting Therapy in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Meta-Analysis

Journal of Pain Research
Shuai Dong,1 Lan-Xin Wang,2 Qing-Yu Yu,3 Duan-Yu Mou,2 Dong-Sheng Qiu,4 Guo-Ping Ye,4 Xi Wu1 1College of Acupuncture and Tuina, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611137, People’s Republic of China; 2Affiliated Hospital
Dong S, Wang LX, Yu QY, Mou DY, Qiu DS, Ye GP, Wu X   +6 more
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Compliance of systematic reviews in veterinary journals with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) literature search reporting guidelines

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2017
Objective: Complete, accurate reporting of systematic reviews facilitates assessment of how well reviews have been conducted. The primary objective of this study was to examine compliance of systematic reviews in veterinary journals with Preferred ...
Lorraine C. Toews
doaj   +1 more source

Delivering rapid, up-to-date, high-quality evidence is feasible during health emergencies: PAHO living systematic review of 305 COVID-19 potential therapeutics

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Objective. To develop a living systematic review to deliver continuous, real-time evidence synthesis in the context of a rapidly evolving landscape of studies on potential therapeutic interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods.
Ariel Izcovich, Sasha Peiris, Gabriel Rada, Fernando Tortosa, Martín Ragusa, Ludovic Reveiz   +5 more
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A Systematic Literature Review of Topic Modeling Techniques in User Reviews

Background: The escalating volume of user review data is necessitating automated methods for extracting valuable insights. Topic modeling was a vital method for understanding key discussions and user opinions. However, there was no comprehensive analysis
Ilham Zharif Mustaqim, Ryan Randy Suryono   +1 more
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Supporting Systematic Reviews Using LDA-based Document Representations [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND:Identifying relevant studies for inclusion in a systematic review (i.e. screening) is a complex, laborious and expensive task. Recently, a number of studies has shown that the use of machine learning and text mining methods to automatically ...
Mo, Yuanhan, Kontonatsios, G., Kontonatsios, Georgios, Ananiadou, Sophia, Ananiadou, S.; id_orcid, Yuanhan Mo, Georgios Kontonatsios, Mo, Y., Sophia Ananiadou   +8 more
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Developing and validating PubMed infant hedges for PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE: a Medical Library Association pediatrics librarians caucus initiative

Journal of the Medical Library Association
Background: To support evidence synthesis and clinical searching, a team of librarians developed and validated infant age (birth to 23 months) search hedges for PubMed (National Library of Medicine) and Medline (OVID).
Lynn Kysh, Zoë Baker, Roxanne Bogucka, Emily Brennan, Rachel Hinrichs, Christine Willis   +5 more
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A mixed-methods approach to systematic reviews

, 2015
There are an increasing number of published single-method systematic reviews that focus on different types of evidence related to a particular topic. As policy makers and practitioners seek clear directions for decision-making from systematic reviews, it
Salmond, S., Pearson, A., White, H., Bath-Hextall, F., Kirkpatrick, P., Apostolo, J.   +5 more
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The searchbuildR shiny app: A new implementation of the objective approach for search strategy development in systematic reviews

Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods
Introduction One of the main tasks in information retrieval is the development of Boolean search strategies for systematic searches in bibliographic databases. This includes the identification of free‐text terms and controlled vocabulary.
Claudia Kapp, Naomi Fujita‐Rohwerder, Jona Lilienthal, Wiebke Sieben, Siw Waffenschmidt, Elke Hausner   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source