Health Technology Assessment, 2013 Background: Medical imaging techniques are important in the management of many patients with liver disease. Unenhanced ultrasound examinations sometimes identify focal abnormalities in the liver that may require further investigation, primarily to ...
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Dissemination of evidence-based standards of care. [PDF]
, 2011 Standards of care pertain to crafting and implementing patient-centered treatment interventions. Standards of care must take into consideration the patient's gender, ethnicity, medical and dental history, insurance coverage (or socioeconomic level, if a ...
Barkhordarian, Andre +2 more
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Health Technology Assessment, 2017 Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the UK. Presenting symptoms that can be associated with CRC usually have another explanation.
Marie Westwood +8 more
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A survey of prevalence of narrative and systematic reviews in five major medical journals
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017 Background Systematic reviews may provide less biased evidence than narrative reviews because they observe a strict methodology, similarly to primary studies. Hence, for clinical research questions, systematic reviews should be the study design of choice.
Clovis Mariano Faggion +2 more
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Protocol for a systematic scoping review of reasons given to justify the performance of randomised controlled trials. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionRandomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely viewed to generate the most reliable medical knowledge. However, RCTs are not always scientifically necessary and therefore not always ethical.
Chevrier, Stephanie +7 more
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Health Technology Assessment, 2015 Background: Early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can ensure quick and effective treatment but only 20% of adults with emergency admissions for chest pain have an AMI.
Marie Westwood +9 more
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Social Media use within medical education: a systematic review to develop a pilot questionnaire on how social media can be best used at BSMS [PDF]
, 2017 : Background: Since the early 2000s social media has become a major part of our daily lives, and over the past decade it has found its way into the medical profession.
Hennessy, Catherine, Whyte, William
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Sex Inequalities in Medical Research: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Literature
Women's Health Reports, 2022 Background: Historically, medical studies have excluded female participants and research data have been collected from males and generalized to females. The gender gap in medical research, alongside overarching misogyny, results in real-life disadvantages for female patients. This systematic scoping review of the literature aims to determine the extent
Merone, Lea +3 more
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Using the Medical Research Council framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions in a theory-based infant feeding intervention to prevent childhood obesity:The baby milk intervention and trial [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction. We describe our experience of using the Medical Research Council framework on complex interventions to guide the development and evaluation of an intervention to prevent obesity by modifying infant feeding behaviours. Methods.
Griffin, Simon +5 more
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Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: systematic review
Health Technology Assessment, 2010 Objectives: To examine whether or not self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is worthwhile, in terms of glycaemic control, hypoglycaemia, quality of life (QoL) and cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY), in people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) who ...
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