Systematic Reviews as Topic Concept

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• A Canadian evaluation framework for quality improvement in childhood arthritis: key performance indicators of the process of care  Academic Article
• A Systematic Review of Rehabilitation Protocols after Surgical Repair of the Extensor Tendons in Zones V–VIII of the Hand  Academic Article
• A call for consensus guidelines on classification and reporting of methodological studies  Academic Article
• A common framework of steps and criteria for prioritizing topics for evidence syntheses: a systematic review  Academic Article
• A methodological survey of the analysis, reporting and interpretation of Absolute Risk ReductiOn in systematic revieWs (ARROW): a study protocol (vol 2, 113, 2013)  Academic Article
• A modified Delphi and cross-sectional survey to facilitate selection of optimal outcomes and measures for a systematic review on geriatrician-led care models  Academic Article
• A protocol for a systematic review on the impact of unpublished studies and studies published in the gray literature in meta-analyses  Academic Article
• A scoping review and survey provides the rationale, perceptions, and preferences for the integration of randomized and nonrandomized studies in evidence syntheses and GRADE assessments  Academic Article
• A standardised method for interpreting the association between mutations and phenotypic drug resistance inMycobacterium tuberculosis  Academic Article
• A systematic survey showed important limitations in the methods for assessing drug safety among systematic reviews  Academic Article
• A systematic survey shows that reporting and handling of missing outcome data in networks of interventions is poor  Academic Article
• Advances in the GRADE approach to rate the certainty in estimates from a network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Adverse outcomes associated with opioid prescription for acute low back pain: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• An evaluation of the comparative effectiveness of geriatrician-led comprehensive geriatric assessment for improving patient and healthcare system outcomes for older adults: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• An overview of the GRADE approach and a peek at the future  Academic Article
• Anticonvulsants for behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia: protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Antiplatelet therapy and coronary artery bypass grafting  Academic Article
• Appraisal of clinical practice guidelines for management of paediatric type 2 diabetes mellitus using the AGREE II instrument: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Appraising the exercise oncology literature: a reminder of the rigour needed in systematic reviews  Academic Article
• Are systematic reviews and meta-analyses still useful research? Yes  Academic Article
• Assessment of safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stromal cell therapy in preclinical models of acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between BDNF levels and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between body mass index and suicidal behaviors: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between cannabis use and treatment outcomes in patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between caregiver quality of life and the care provided to persons with Alzheimer’s disease: protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Association between functional social support and cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults: a protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Association between mesothelin expression and survival outcomes in patients with triple-negative breast cancer: a protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Association between progression-free survival and health-related quality of life in oncology: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Atraumatic versus traumatic lumbar puncture needles: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• Barriers to HIV care among Francophone African, Caribbean and Black immigrant people living with HIV in Canada: a protocol for a scoping systematic review  Academic Article
• Brazilian medicinal plants to treat upper respiratory tract and bronchial illness: systematic review and meta-analyses--study protocol  Academic Article
• Brazilian oral herbal medication for osteoarthritis: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Canadian Rheumatology Association Recommendations for the Assessment and Monitoring of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus  Academic Article
• Celebrities’ impact on health-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and status outcomes: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis  Academic Article
• Certainty ranges facilitated explicit and transparent judgments regarding evidence credibility  Academic Article
• Choice of data extraction tools for systematic reviews depends on resources and review complexity  Academic Article
• Cinacalcet versus standard treatment for chronic kidney disease: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Clonidine for sedation in the critically ill: a systematic review and meta-analysis (protocol)  Academic Article
• Common Components of Efficacious In-Home End-of-Life Care Programs: A Review of Systematic Reviews  Academic Article
• Comparative effectiveness of monotherapies and combination therapies for patients with hypertension: protocol for a systematic review with network meta-analyses  Academic Article
• Comparative effectiveness of the different components of care provided in heart failure clinics—protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Comparative safety and effectiveness of cognitive enhancers for Alzheimer's dementia: protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Comparison between the standard and a new alternative format of the Summary-of-Findings tables in Cochrane review users: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• Comparison of health-related quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation treated with catheter ablation or antiarrhythmic drug therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• Comparison of physical interventions, behavioral interventions, natural health products, and pharmacologics to manage hot flashes in patients with breast or prostate cancer: protocol for a systematic review incorporating network meta-analyses  Academic Article
• Comparison of ventilatory modes to facilitate liberation from mechanical ventilation: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Concurrent validity of the alcohol purchase task in relation to alcohol involvement: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Conflict of interest is not associated with positive conclusions in toothpaste trials: a systematic survey  Academic Article
• Considerations for the Selection of Time-Limited Walk Tests Poststroke: A Systematic Review of Test Protocols and Measurement Properties  Academic Article
• Corticosteroids in sepsis: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (protocol)  Academic Article
• Decision-making frameworks and considerations for informing coverage decisions for healthcare interventions: a critical interpretive synthesis  Academic Article
• Defining and measuring health equity effects in research on task shifting interventions in high-income countries: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Defining publication bias: protocol for a systematic review of highly cited articles and proposal for a new framework  Academic Article
• Defining ranges for certainty ratings of diagnostic accuracy: a GRADE concept paper  Academic Article
• Delay discounting differences in brain activation, connectivity, and structure in individuals with addiction: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline.  Academic Article
• Detecting, quantifying and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analyses: protocol of a systematic review on methods  Academic Article
• Effect of green tea supplementation on blood pressure among overweight and obese adults: a protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Effect of religious involvement on cognition from a life-course perspective: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Effect of standardized training on the reliability of the Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool: a study protocol  Academic Article
• Effectiveness and content analysis of interventions to enhance medication adherence in hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• Effectiveness and safety of treatments used for the management of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of Progressive Resistive Exercise (PRE) in the context of HIV: systematic review and meta-analysis using the Cochrane Collaboration protocol  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of aerobic exercise for adults living with HIV: systematic review and meta-analysis using the Cochrane Collaboration protocol  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies on health care professionals’ behaviour and patient outcomes in the cancer care context: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of implementation strategies in improving physician adherence to guideline recommendations in heart failure: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of influenza vaccination for preventing influenza-related complications in people with asthma: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of knowledge translation tools addressing multiple high-burden chronic diseases affecting older adults: protocol for a systematic review alongside a realist review  Academic Article
• Effects of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-positive adults on new HIV infections among young women: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on cognitive functioning in patients with depression: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in depression in adults: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Empirical evaluation of the Q-Genie tool: a protocol for assessment of effectiveness  Academic Article
• Enhanced recovery after surgery protocol in oesophageal cancer surgery: Systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Enhancing the uptake of systematic reviews of effects: what is the best format for health care managers and policy-makers? A mixed-methods study  Academic Article
• Establishing an Evidence Synthesis Capability For Psychological Health Topics in the Military Health System  Academic Article
• Evaluating overweight and obesity prevalence in survivors of childhood brain tumors: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Evaluating the endometabolic and bone health effects of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Evaluating the evidence for macrophage presence in skeletal muscle and its relation to insulin resistance in obese mice and humans: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Experiences of unpaid family/friend caregivers of community-dwelling adults with dementia: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Factors associated with development of gastrointestinal problems in patients with scleroderma: a protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• 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  Academic Article
• GRADE approach to rate the certainty from a network meta-analysis: addressing incoherence  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines 26: informative statements to communicate the findings of systematic reviews of interventions  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines 27: how to calculate absolute effects for time-to-event outcomes in summary of findings tables and Evidence Profiles  Academic Article
• 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  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 20. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences—inconsistency, imprecision, and other domains  Academic Article
• Gabapentinoids for chronic low back pain: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials  Academic Article
• Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Identifying patient-important outcomes in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder patients: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Impact of COVID-19 and other pandemics and epidemics on people with pre-existing mental disorders: a systematic review protocol and suggestions for clinical care  Academic Article
• Impact of missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes on pooled effect estimates in systematic reviews: a protocol for a methodological study  Academic Article
• Impact of point-of-care diagnostics on maternal outcomes in HIV-infected women: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• Inappropriateness of health care in Canada: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• International law’s effects on health and its social determinants: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis  Academic Article
• Intra-aortic balloon pump in patients with cardiogenic shock complicating myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials (protocol)  Academic Article
• Intrathecal hyperbaric versus isobaric bupivacaine for adult non-caesarean-section surgery: systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Investigating clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews: a methodologic review of guidance in the literature  Academic Article
• Local anesthetic injections with or without steroid for chronic non-cancer pain: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Long-term risk of recurrence after discontinuing anticoagulants for a first unprovoked venous thromboembolism: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Low-molecular-weight heparin for prevention of placenta-mediated pregnancy complications: protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis (AFFIRM)  Academic Article
• Male participation in prevention programmes of mother to child transmission of HIV: a protocol for a systematic review to identify barriers, facilitators and reported interventions  Academic Article
• Management of acute musculoskeletal pain (excluding low back pain): protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials  Academic Article
• Management of frailty: a protocol of a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Measurement of melatonin in body fluids: Standards, protocols and procedures  Academic Article
• Measures assessing attributes of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) competence among nurses: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Melatonin and melatonin agonists to prevent and treat delirium in critical illness: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis: mistake or milestone in medicine?  Academic Article
• Methods for trustworthy nutritional recommendations NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations and accessible Evidence summaries Composed of Systematic reviews): a protocol  Academic Article
• Methods of conduct and reporting of living systematic reviews: a protocol for a living methodological survey  Academic Article
• Multiple overlapping systematic reviews facilitate the origin of disputes: the case of thrombolytic therapy for pulmonary embolism  Academic Article
• National suicide management guidelines with family as an interv’ention and suicide mortality rates: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Network meta‐analysis in health care decision making  Academic Article
• Opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: a protocol for a systematic review of randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Optic nerve sheath diameter sonography for the diagnosis of increased intracranial pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• Outcomes after corrective surgery for congenital dextro-transposition of the great arteries using the arterial switch technique: a protocol for a scoping systematic review  Academic Article
• Outcomes and characteristics of non-immobilised, spine-injured trauma patients: a systematic review of prehospital selective immobilisation protocols  Academic Article
• Outcomes in the offspring of mothers with pre-diabetes during pregnancy: a protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Overweight and obesity management strategies in survivors of paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• PRISMA and AMSTAR show systematic reviews on health literacy and cancer screening are of good quality  Academic Article
• PRISMA extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR): checklist and explanation  Academic Article
• Patent foramen ovale closure, antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulation therapy alone for management of cryptogenic stroke? A clinical practice guideline  Academic Article
• Potential impact of missing outcome data on treatment effects in systematic reviews: imputation study  Academic Article
• Predictors of 1-year mortality in adult lung transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Predictors of in-hospital mortality among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: a protocol of systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies  Academic Article
• Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement  Academic Article
• Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015: elaboration and explanation  Academic Article
• Presentation approaches for enhancing interpretability of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in meta-analysis: a protocol for a systematic survey of Cochrane reviews  Academic Article
• Prevalence of papillomavirus in Brazil: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Prevention and assessment of infectious diseases among children and adult migrants arriving to the European Union/European Economic Association: A protocol for a suite of systematic reviews for public health and health systems  Academic Article
• Probiotics may be more effective than no treatment for preventing and treating oral candidiasis, but reporting limitations of a systematic review make it difficult to apply these results to practice  Academic Article
• Processes, contexts, and rationale for disinvestment: a protocol for a critical interpretive synthesis  Academic Article
• Protocol for the development of guidance for stakeholder engagement in health and healthcare guideline development and implementation  Academic Article
• Protocol: developing a conceptual framework of patient mediated knowledge translation, systematic review using a realist approach  Academic Article
• Protocol: systematic review and meta-analyses of birth outcomes for women who intend at the onset of labour to give birth at home compared to women of low obstetrical risk who intend to give birth in hospital  Academic Article
• Publication bias in animal research: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Quality of reporting of outcomes in trials of therapeutic interventions for pressure ulcers in adults: a protocol for a systematic survey  Academic Article
• Recommendations for the conduct of systematic reviews in toxicology and environmental health research (COSTER)  Academic Article
• Recurrent Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Women: AUA/CUA/SUFU Guideline  Academic Article
• Reporting Guidelines for Imaging Research  Academic Article
• Reporting of planned statistical methods in published surgical randomised trial protocols: a protocol for a methodological systematic review  Academic Article
• Risk factors for unplanned and crash dialysis starts: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Risk of bias assessment of sequence generation: a study of 100 systematic reviews of trials  Academic Article
• Safety and effectiveness of long-acting versus intermediate-acting insulin for patients with type 1 diabetes: protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Safety and efficacy of perioperative benzodiazepine administration: study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Screening for cancer in patients with unprovoked venous thromboembolism: protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Screening for depression in women during pregnancy or the first year postpartum and in the general adult population: a protocol for two systematic reviews to update a guideline of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care  Academic Article
• Seeing the forests and the trees—innovative approaches to exploring heterogeneity in systematic reviews of complex interventions to enhance health system decision-making: a protocol  Academic Article
• Sex differences in outcomes of methadone maintenance treatment for opioid addiction: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Short-course versus long-course oral antibiotic treatment for infections treated in outpatient settings: a review of systematic reviews  Academic Article
• Statistical significance did not affect time to publication in non-Cochrane systematic reviews: a metaepidemiological study  Academic Article
• Study-design selection criteria in systematic reviews of effectiveness of health systems interventions and reforms: A meta-review  Academic Article
• Subgroup Analysis of Trials Is Rarely Easy (SATIRE): a study protocol for a systematic review to characterize the analysis, reporting, and claim of subgroup effects in randomized trials  Academic Article
• Subgroup analyses are seldom possible and subgroup effects are rare in Cochrane HIV systematic reviews  Academic Article
• Supporting successful implementation of public health interventions: protocol for a realist synthesis  Academic Article
• Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials  Academic Article
• Systematic Review of Flexor Tendon Rehabilitation Protocols in Zone II of the Hand  Conference Paper
• Systematic review and network meta-analysis of interventions for fibromyalgia: a protocol  Academic Article
• Systematic review suggests that there are no important differences in recession depth, clinical attachment level, and keratinized mucosa over time when comparing treatments for root coverage  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews do not adequately report or address missing outcome data in their analyses: a methodological survey  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews identify important methodological flaws in stroke rehabilitation therapy primary studies: review of reviews  Academic Article
• The Forest and the Trees: Evidence-Based Medicine in the Age of Information  Academic Article
• The UpPriority tool was developed to guide the prioritization of clinical guideline questions for updating  Academic Article
• The Use of Bowel Protocols in Critically Ill Adult Patients  Academic Article
• The effect of occupational exposure to welding fumes on trachea, bronchus and lung cancer: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury  Academic Article
• The effect of psychological interventions on the prevention of chronic pain in adults: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• The effectiveness and safety of treatments used for acute diarrhea and acute gastroenteritis in children: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• The effectiveness and safety of treatments used for polycystic ovarian syndrome management in adolescents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• The effectiveness of health care provider physical activity recommendations in cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• The effectiveness of interventions to treat obesity in survivors of childhood brain tumors: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• The effectiveness of opioid substitution treatments for patients with opioid dependence: a systematic review and multiple treatment comparison protocol  Academic Article
• 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  Academic Article
• The efficacy of fall-risk-increasing drug (FRID) withdrawal for the prevention of falls and fall-related complications: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• The efficiency of database searches for creating systematic reviews was improved by search filters  Academic Article
• The ever‐shifting source of authority on what works in clinical medicine  Academic Article
• The impact of chronic pain on opioid addiction treatment: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• The impact of environmental cadmium exposure on type 2 diabetes risk: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews  Academic Article
• The impact of transitional care programs on health services utilization among community-dwelling older adults and their caregivers  Academic Article
• The landscape of knowledge translation interventions in cancer control: What do we know and where to next? A review of systematic reviews  Academic Article
• The reporting of safety among drug systematic reviews was poor before the implementation of the PRISMA harms checklist  Academic Article
• The risk of elevated prolactin levels in pediatric patients exposed to antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• The role of pragmatism in explaining heterogeneity in meta-analyses of randomised trials: a protocol for a cross-sectional methodological review  Academic Article
• Towards high-quality, useful practice guidelines for child and youth mental health disorders: protocol for a systematic review and consensus exercise  Academic Article
• Traditional knowledge-based lifestyle interventions in the prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes in Indigenous children in Canada: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Tranexamic acid in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis (protocol)  Academic Article
• Transepithelial versus epithelium-off corneal collagen cross-linking for corneal ectasia: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomised controlled trials  Academic Article
• Transitional care for formerly incarcerated persons with HIV: protocol for a realist review  Academic Article
• Transitional care quality indicators to assess quality of care following hospitalisation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Treatment of Multiple Myeloma: ASCO and CCO Joint Clinical Practice Guideline  Academic Article
• Uncertainty about the average rate of complications after surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion owing to limitations in a systematic review, but the rate seems to vary importantly across studies  Academic Article
• Use of weaning protocols for reducing duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill adult patients: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Using decision thresholds for ranking treatments in network meta-analysis results in more informative rankings  Academic Article
• Values and preferences of men for undergoing prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer: a systematic review  Academic Article
• Vasopressor use following traumatic injury: protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19  Academic Article
• Vitamin D and kidney transplant outcomes: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist  Academic Article
• β-Blockers in sepsis: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised control trials  Academic Article