Observational Studies as Topic Concept

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• A Protocol for a Pan-Canadian Prospective Observational Study on Active Surveillance or Surgery for Very Low Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer  Journal Articles
• A comparison of skin grafts versus local flaps for facial skin cancer from the patient perspective: protocol for a feasibility study  Journal Articles
• A scoping review establishes need for consensus guidance on reporting health equity in observational studies  Journal Articles
• A systematic review of the reporting of sample size calculations and corresponding data components in observational functional magnetic resonance imaging studies  Journal Articles
• A tale of two countries: all‐cause mortality among people living with HIV and receiving combination antiretroviral therapy in the UK and Canada  Journal Articles
• A tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized follow-up studies of exposure effects (ROBINS-E)  Journal Articles
• Activity limitations, use of assistive devices, and mortality and clinical events in 25 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: an analysis of the PURE study  Journal Articles
• Adjusted Analyses in Studies Addressing Therapy and Harm  Journal Articles
• Age at migration and the risk of psychotic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Journal Articles
• Agreement between study designs: a systematic review comparing observational studies and randomized trials of surgical treatments for necrotizing enterocolitis  Journal Articles
• Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016  Journal Articles
• Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy Before 24 Weeks of Gestation  Journal Articles
• Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Therapy Regimens for Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy: A Systematic Review  Journal Articles
• Antiplatelet Therapy versus Anticoagulation after Surgical Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Antipsychotic drug exposure and risk of fracture  Journal Articles
• Antipsychotic use and risk of life‐threatening medical events: umbrella review of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Apixaban for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: Why are Event Rates Higher in Clinical Practice than in Randomized Trials?—A Systematic Review  Journal Articles
• Application of the STROBE statement to the hypospadias literature: Report of the international pediatric urology task force on hypospadias  Journal Articles
• Assessing care models implemented in primary healthcare for persons with dementia: a mixed-methods study protocol  Journal Articles
• Association Between Depression and Mortality in Patients Receiving Long-term Dialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Association between BDNF levels and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Association between physicians’ interaction with pharmaceutical companies and their clinical practices: A systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Association of parenting with suicidal ideation and attempts in children and youth: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Authors’ reply re: An observational study of the success and complications of 2546 external cephalic versions in low‐risk pregnant women performed by trained midwives  Journal Articles
• Balloon versus self‐expandable transcatheter aortic valve implantation for bicuspid aortic valve stenosis: A meta‐analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Benefits and harms of aspirin desensitization for aspirin‐exacerbated respiratory disease: a systematic review and meta‐analysis  Journal Articles
• Blood eosinophil count, a marker of inhaled corticosteroid effectiveness in preventing COPD exacerbations in post-hoc RCT and observational studies: systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Body mass index and all‐cause mortality in older adults: A scoping review of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Brazilian medicinal plants to treat upper respiratory tract and bronchial illness: systematic review and meta-analyses—study protocol  Journal Articles
• Burden of respiratory syncytial virus hospitalisation among infants born at 32–35 weeks' gestational age in the Northern Hemisphere: pooled analysis of seven studies  Journal Articles
• COVID-19 coronavirus research has overall low methodological quality thus far: case in point for chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine  Journal Articles
• Canadian Cardiovascular Society 2023 Guidelines on the Fitness to Drive  Journal Articles
• Cannabis consumption and motor vehicle collision: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.  Journal Articles
• Clinical Disease Severity of Respiratory Viral Co-Infection versus Single Viral Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Communication Tools for End-of-Life Decision-Making in Ambulatory Care Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Community-Based Interventions to Improve and Sustain Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence, Retention in HIV Care and Clinical Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries for Achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 Targets  Journal Articles
• Comparability of patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis enrolled in clinical trials or in observational cohorts  Journal Articles
• Comparability of patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis enrolled in clinical trials or in observational cohorts.  Journal Articles
• Complete Lifestyle Medicine Intervention Program-Ontario: Implementation Protocol for a Rural Study.  Journal Articles
• Concomitant Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: a Review  Journal Articles
• Contrasting evidence to reimbursement reality for off-label use (OLU) of drug treatments in cancer care: rationale and design of the CEIT-OLU project  Journal Articles
• Core Outcome Set for IgE‐mediated food allergy clinical trials and observational studies of interventions: International Delphi consensus study ‘COMFA’  Journal Articles
• Culprit-Only Versus Complete Coronary Revascularization After ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction- A Systematic Review and Analysis of Clinical Outcomes  Journal Articles
• Delayed laparoscopic peritoneal washout in non-operative management of blunt abdominal trauma: a scoping review  Journal Articles
• Diagnostic and prognostic accuracy of Protein C in adult patients with sepsis: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Digital Subtraction Angiography Versus RealTime Fluoroscopy for Detection of Intravascular Penetration Prior to Epidural Steroid Injections: Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies  Journal Articles
• Digoxin–mortality: randomized vs. observational comparison in the DIG trial  Journal Articles
• Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and risk of heart failure in type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised and observational studies  Journal Articles
• Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Vitamin K Antagonists in Patients Undergoing Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Direct comparative effectiveness and safety between non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Does consecutive influenza vaccination reduce protection against influenza: A systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Drug-drug interactions with direct oral anticoagulants associated with adverse events in the real world: A systematic review  Journal Articles
• Early and frequent exposure to antibiotics in children and the risk of obesity: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Early vasopressor use following traumatic injury: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Educational interventions to train healthcare professionals in end-of-life communication: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Effect of continuous positive airway pressure on long-term cardiovascular outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease and obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Effect of corticosteroid administration on neurologically deceased organ donors and transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Effect of fructose on markers of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled feeding trials  Journal Articles
• Effect of fructose on postprandial triglycerides: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled feeding trials  Journal Articles
• Effect of perioperative benzodiazepine use on intraoperative awareness and postoperative delirium: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies  Journal Articles
• Effectiveness of antiarrhythmic drugs for shockable cardiac arrest: A systematic review  Journal Articles
• Efficacy and safety of anti-vascular endothelial growth agents for the treatment of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Efficacy and safety of antiviral treatment for COVID-19 from evidence in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and other acute viral infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Evaluating the literature on preoperative androgen stimulation for hypospadias repair using the fragility index – can we trust observational studies?  Journal Articles
• Evaluation of safety and effectiveness of factor VIII treatment in haemophilia A patients with low titre inhibitors or a personal history of inhibitor  Journal Articles
• Evidence, values, and masks for control of COVID-19  Journal Articles
• Exercise rehabilitation in cardiac resynchronization: systematic review and a meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Factors associated with development of gastrointestinal problems in patients with scleroderma: a protocol for a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Factors associated with development of gastrointestinal problems in patients with scleroderma: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Fracture risk in long term care: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies  Journal Articles
• GRADE Guidelines 28: Use of GRADE for the assessment of evidence about prognostic factors: rating certainty in identification of groups of patients with different absolute risks  Journal Articles
• GRADE guidelines: 18. How ROBINS-I and other tools to assess risk of bias in nonrandomized studies should be used to rate the certainty of a body of evidence  Journal Articles
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 12. Erstellen von „Summary-of-Findings“-Tabellen – Dichotome Endpunkte  Journal Articles
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 9. Heraufstufen der Qualität der Evidenz  Journal Articles
• Generating evidence on a risk-based monitoring approach in the academic setting – lessons learned  Journal Articles
• Global Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy in Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes  Journal Articles
• Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and heart failure in type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and observational studies  Journal Articles
• Gluten Introduction to Infant Feeding and Risk of Celiac Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Grilling the data: application of specification curve analysis to red meat and all-cause mortality  Journal Articles
• Heparin‐induced thrombocytopenia‐associated thrombosis: from arterial to venous to venous limb gangrene  Journal Articles
• Herd effect from influenza vaccination in non-healthcare settings: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials and observational studies  Journal Articles
• How to generalize efficacy results of randomized trials: recommendations based on a systematic review of possible approaches  Journal Articles
• Huge variation in obtaining ethical permission for a non-interventional observational study in Europe  Journal Articles
• IMAGINE Network’s Mind And Gut Interactions Cohort (MAGIC) Study: a protocol for a prospective observational multicentre cohort study in inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome  Journal Articles
• Impact of introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria on antibiotic prescribing: analysis of observational and randomised studies in public and private healthcare settings  Journal Articles
• Impact of parent-targeted eHealth educational interventions on infant procedural pain management: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Implementation of back to living well, a community-based program for the tertiary prevention of low back pain: a study protocol  Journal Articles
• Improving social justice in observational studies: protocol for the development of a global and Indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline  Journal Articles
• Improving the trustworthiness of findings from nutrition evidence syntheses: assessing risk of bias and rating the certainty of evidence  Journal Articles
• Incidence of intracranial bleeding in seniors presenting to the emergency department after a fall: A systematic review  Journal Articles
• Insights and Perspectives on Dietary Modifications to Reduce the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease  Journal Articles
• Interventions to Optimize Spinal Cord Perfusion in Patients with Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries: A Systematic Review  Journal Articles
• Investigating colonization patterns of the infant gut microbiome during the introduction of solid food and weaning from breastmilk: A cohort study protocol  Journal Articles
• Joint incorporation of randomised and observational evidence in estimating treatment effects  Journal Articles
• Knee arthroscopy versus conservative management in patients with degenerative knee disease: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Latent variable models for harmonization of test scores: A case study on memory  Journal Articles
• Longitudinal relationships between glycemic status and body mass index in a multiethnic study: evidence from observational and genetic epidemiology  Journal Articles
• Lung clearance index in cystic fibrosis subjects treated for pulmonary exacerbations  Journal Articles
• Lupus myocarditis: a single center experience and a comparative analysis of observational cohort studies  Journal Articles
• Magnitude and direction of missing confounders had different consequences on treatment effect estimation in propensity score analysis  Journal Articles
• Mendelian randomization analysis supports the causal role of dysglycaemia and diabetes in the risk of coronary artery disease  Journal Articles
• Mobilization Patterns of Patients After an Acute Myocardial Infarction  Journal Articles
• Modifiable Lifestyle Factors for Primary Prevention of CKD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Multiple uses of forest plots in presenting analysis results in health research: A Tutorial  Journal Articles
• Myofascial Pain as an Unseen Comorbidity in Osteoarthritis  Journal Articles
• NOACs for treatment of venous thromboembolism in clinical practice  Journal Articles
• Neonatal Outcomes in Women With Untreated Antenatal Depression Compared With Women Without Depression  Journal Articles
• Neurologic Physiology after Removal of Therapy (NeuPaRT) study: study protocol of a multicentre, prospective, observational, pilot feasibility study of neurophysiology after withdrawal of life-sustaining measures  Journal Articles
• Newcastle-Ottawa Scale: comparing reviewers’ to authors’ assessments  Journal Articles
• New‐onset atrial fibrillation in the intensive care unit: Protocol for an international inception cohort study (AFIB‐ICU)  Journal Articles
• No Association Linking Short-Term Proton Pump Inhibitor Use to Dementia: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies  Journal Articles
• Opioid-sparing effects of medical cannabis or cannabinoids for chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised and observational studies  Journal Articles
• Outcomes of ICDs and CRTs in patients with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis of 21,000 patients  Journal Articles
• Patient-reported, health economic and psychosocial outcomes in patients with Friedreich ataxia (PROFA): protocol of an observational study using momentary data assessments via mobile health app  Journal Articles
• Postthrombolysis Intracranial Hemorrhage Risk of Cerebral Microbleeds in Acute Stroke Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Predictors for success and failure in international medical graduates: a systematic review of observational studies.  Journal Articles
• Predictors of Prolonged Opioid Use After Initial Prescription for Acute Musculoskeletal Injuries in Adults  Journal Articles
• Predictors of Unemployment After Breast Cancer Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies  Journal Articles
• Predictors of fatal and nonfatal overdose after prescription of opioids for chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Predictors of in-hospital mortality among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: a protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Predictors of persistent pain after breast cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Pregnancy as a risk factor for severe outcomes from influenza virus infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate to predict cardiac events in major noncardiac surgery: a secondary analysis of two large international studies.  Journal Articles
• Preoperative hormonal stimulation effect on hypospadias repair complications: Meta-analysis of observational versus randomized controlled studies  Journal Articles
• Present criteria for prophylactic ICD implantation: Insights from the EU-CERT-ICD (Comparative Effectiveness Research to Assess the Use of Primary ProphylacTic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in EUrope) project  Journal Articles
• Prevalence and intensity of persistent post-surgical pain following breast cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Prevalence of Hypertension and Albuminuria in Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes  Journal Articles
• Prevalence of chronic non-cancer pain among military veterans: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Journal Articles
• Prevalence of symptom exaggeration among North American independent medical evaluation examinees: A systematic review of observational studies.  Journal Articles
• Prognostic factors associated with mortality among patients receiving venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Propensity score matched comparison of subcutaneous and transvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy in the SIMPLE and EFFORTLESS studies  Journal Articles
• Prothrombin complex concentrates versus fresh frozen plasma for warfarin reversal A systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Protocol for validating an algorithm to identify neurocognitive disorders in Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging participants: an observational study  Journal Articles
• Quality of reporting of the literature on gastrointestinal reflux after repair of esophageal atresia–tracheoesophageal fistula  Journal Articles
• ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions  Journal Articles
• Real-world studies no substitute for RCTs in establishing efficacy  Journal Articles
• Reduction in Mortality following Elective Major Hip and Knee Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Reporting of equity in observational epidemiology: A methodological review  Journal Articles
• Reproductive patterns, pregnancy outcomes and parental leave practices of women physicians in Ontario, Canada: the Dr Mom Cohort Study protocol  Journal Articles
• Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes Associated With Sarcopenia in Rheumatoid Arthritis  Journal Articles
• Risk of postoperative infectious complications from medical therapies in inflammatory bowel disease  Journal Articles
• Risk of thrombosis and bleeding in gynecologic cancer surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• STROCSS 2019 Guideline: Strengthening the reporting of cohort studies in surgery  Journal Articles
• Safety of Adding Oats to a Gluten-Free Diet for Patients With Celiac Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Clinical and Observational Studies  Journal Articles
• Safety of Intravenous Iron in Dialysis  Journal Articles
• Sex‐mismatched red blood cell transfusions and mortality: A systematic review and meta‐analysis  Conferences
• Should we believe in transfusion-associated enterocolitis? Applying a GRADE to the literature  Journal Articles
• Supplemental Breast Cancer Screening in Women with Dense Breasts and Negative Mammography: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• Systematic Review of Observational Studies Assessing Bleeding Risk in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Not Using Anticoagulants  Journal Articles
• Systematic Review of Postural Assessment in Individuals With Obstructive Respiratory Conditions  Journal Articles
• Systematic Review: Efficacy of Medical Therapy on Outcomes Important to Adult Patients With X-Linked Hypophosphatemia.  Journal Articles
• Systematic reviews of observational studies of risk of thrombosis and bleeding in urological surgery (ROTBUS): introduction and methodology  Journal Articles
• Systematic survey of the causal language use in systematic reviews of observational studies: a study protocol  Journal Articles
• TRANSCENDENT (Transforming Research by Assessing Neuroinformatics across the Spectrum of Concussion by Embedding iNterdisciplinary Data-collection to Enable Novel Treatments): protocol for a prospective observational cohort study of concussion patients with embedded comparative effectiveness research within a network of learning health system concussion clinics in Canada.  Journal Articles
• The Canadian Lung Outcomes in Users of Vaping Devices (CLOUD) Study: protocol for a prospective, observational cohort study.  Journal Articles
• The Diversity of Research Participants in Randomized Controlled Trials and Observational Studies Conducted by the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group  Journal Articles
• The Impact of Nocturia on Falls and Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Journal Articles
• The combined effects of maternal depression and excess weight on neonatal outcomes  Journal Articles
• The effectiveness of substance use interventions for homeless and vulnerably housed persons:  A systematic review of systematic reviews on supervised consumption facilities, managed alcohol programs, and pharmacological agents for opioid use disorder  Journal Articles
• The epidemiology of tobacco use among khat users: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• The prognostic utility of protein C as a biomarker for adult sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• The relationship between physical activity and lymphoma: a systematic review and meta analysis  Journal Articles
• The reporting of observational studies of drug effectiveness and safety: recommendations to extend existing guidelines  Journal Articles
• The reporting of studies using routinely collected health data was often insufficient  Journal Articles
• The role of early-phase trials and real-world evidence in drug development  Journal Articles
• Total Fructose Intake and Risk of Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohorts  Journal Articles
• Tranexamic Acid Administration During On-Pump Cardiac Surgery: A Survey of Current Practices Among Canadian Anesthetists Working in Academic Centers  Journal Articles
• Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 1 and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 During Aerosol-Generating Procedures in Critical Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies*  Journal Articles
• Treatment outcomes for newly diagnosed, treatment-naïve TP53-mutated acute myeloid leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Journal Articles
• Trypanocidal drugs for chronic asymptomatic Trypanosoma cruzi infection  Journal Articles
• Upcoming biomarkers for the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease: A review  Journal Articles
• Update on the use of hydroxyurea therapy in sickle cell disease  Journal Articles
• Upper airway outcomes following midface distraction osteogenesis: a systematic review.  Journal Articles
• Validity of observational evidence on putative risk and protective factors: appraisal of 3744 meta-analyses on 57 topics.  Journal Articles
• Variation in the practice of discontinuing mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults: study protocol for an international prospective observational study  Journal Articles
• “Drink at Least 8 Glasses of Water a Day to Be Healthy???”  Journal Articles