RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Meta-narrative review is one of an emerging menu of new approaches to qualitative and mixed-method systematic review. A meta-narrative review seeks to illuminate a heterogeneous topic area by highlighting the contrasting and complementary ...
Jeanette Buckingham +9 more
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Facilitating the planning and evaluation of narrative intervention reviews: Systematic Transparency in All Intervention Reviews (STAIR) [PDF]
Narrative reviews offer a flexible way to report intervention results and comprise the majority of reviews published in top medical journals. However variations in their transparency pose evaluation challenges, compromising their value and potentially ...
Garip, Gulcan +5 more
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Quality of systematic reviews on the treatment of vesiculobullous skin diseases. A meta-epidemiological study [PDF]
Background Systematic reviews of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are considered high-level evidence to support a decision on therapeutic interventions, and their methodological quality is essential to provide reliable and applicable results ...
Kamilla Mayr Martins Sá +5 more
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Background There is limited evidence for the comparative effectiveness of analgesic medicines for adults with low back pain. This systematic review and network meta-analysis aims to determine the analgesic effect, safety, acceptability, effect on ...
Michael A. Wewege +4 more
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Study-based registers of randomized controlled trials: Starting a systematic review with data extraction or meta-analysis [PDF]
Introduction: Despite years of use of study-based registers for storing reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the methodology used in developing such registers/databases has not been documented.
Farhad Shokraneh, Clive Elliott Adams
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Effects of Topical Oils on Neonatal Skin: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To identify studies that aimed to determine the effects of topical oils on neonatal skin. DATA SOURCES Authors searched PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Science Direct databases.
Aksucu, Gözde +2 more
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ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu +8 more
wiley +1 more source
The effectiveness of Atraumatic Restorative Treatment versus conventional restorative treatment for permanent molars and premolars A critical assessment of existing systematic reviews and report of a new systematic review [PDF]
Available for download at: http://mahara.qmul.ac.uk/view/view.php?id=16447Available for download at: http://mahara.qmul.ac.uk/view/view.php?id=16447Available for download at: http://mahara.qmul.ac.uk/view/view.php?id=16447Available for download at: http:/
Hurst, D, University of Oxford
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ABSTRACT Purpose To explore caregivers' experiences and perceptions of the nutritional challenges faced by children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment, including oral intake and the use of nutritional support. Methods This was a qualitative study based on focus groups with parents and caregivers at a Brazilian pediatric oncology hospital ...
Danyelle Apparecida Balsamão Marques +5 more
wiley +1 more source
The relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviours and outcomes for people living with and beyond cancer: an overview of Systematic Reviews [PDF]
There are an extensive number of published evidence reviews examining the influence of lifestyle behaviours on cancer outcomes. Healthy lifestyles are a significant topic of debate in oncology and in policy and practice organisations that support people ...
Grigsby-Duffy, L +5 more
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