Issue 1/2012
Content (66 Articles)
Methods for the evaluation of hospital cooperation activities (Systematic review protocol)
Thomas Rotter, Daniela Popa, Beatrice Riley, Tim Ellermann, Ulrike Ryll, Genc Burazeri, Piet Daemen, Guy Peeters, Helmut Brand
The importance of PROSPERO to the National Institute for Health Research
Sally Davies
Establishing a new journal for systematic review products
David Moher, Lesley Stewart, Paul Shekelle
Prospective systematic review registration: perspective from the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)
Philip Van der Wees, Amir Qaseem, Minna Kaila, Guenter Ollenschlaeger, Richard Rosenfeld
The nuts and bolts of PROSPERO: an international prospective register of systematic reviews
Alison Booth, Mike Clarke, Gordon Dooley, Davina Ghersi, David Moher, Mark Petticrew, Lesley Stewart
The quality of research synthesis in surgery: the case of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer
Guillaume Martel, Suleena Duhaime, Jeffrey S Barkun, Robin P Boushey, Craig R Ramsay, Dean A Fergusson
Tackling inequalities in obesity: a protocol for a systematic review of the effectiveness of public health interventions at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity amongst children
Clare L Bambra, Frances C Hillier, Helen J Moore, Carolyn D Summerbell
Repeat prenatal corticosteroid prior to preterm birth: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis for the PRECISE study group (prenatal repeat corticosteroid international IPD study group: assessing the effects using the best level of evidence) - study protocol
Caroline A Crowther, Fariba Aghajafari, Lisa M Askie, Elizabeth V Asztalos, Peter Brocklehurst, Tanya K Bubner, Lex W Doyle, Sourabh Dutta, Thomas J Garite, Debra A Guinn, Mikko Hallman, Mary E Hannah, Pollyanna Hardy, Kimberly Maurel, Premasish Mazumder, Cindy McEvoy, Philippa F Middleton, Kellie E Murphy, Outi M Peltoniemi, Dawn Peters, Lisa Sullivan, Elizabeth A Thom, Merryn Voysey, Ronald J Wapner, Lisa Yelland, Sasha Zhang
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
Frederick LI Morfaw, Lehana Thabane, Lawrence CE Mbuagbaw, Philip N Nana
Predicting infectious complications in neutropenic children and young people with cancer (IPD protocol)
Robert S Phillips, Alex J Sutton, Richard D Riley, Julia C Chisholm, Susan V Picton, Lesley A Stewart
Should methodological filters for diagnostic test accuracy studies be used in systematic reviews of psychometric instruments? a case study involving screening for postnatal depression
Rachel Mann, Simon M Gilbody
Evidence summaries: the evolution of a rapid review approach
Sara Khangura, Kristin Konnyu, Rob Cushman, Jeremy Grimshaw, David Moher
An empirical study using permutation-based resampling in meta-regression
Joel J Gagnier, David Moher, Heather Boon, Claire Bombardier, Joseph Beyene
A Web-based archive of systematic review data
Stanley Ip, Nira Hadar, Sarah Keefe, Christopher Parkin, Ramon Iovin, Ethan M Balk, Joseph Lau
Routine development of objectively derived search strategies
Elke Hausner, Siw Waffenschmidt, Thomas Kaiser, Michael Simon
Protocol for a systematic review of prognosis after mild traumatic brain injury: an update of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force findings
Carol Cancelliere, J David Cassidy, Pierre Côté, Cesar A Hincapié, Jan Hartvigsen, Linda J Carroll, Connie Marras, Eleanor Boyle, Vicki Kristman, Ryan Hung, Britt-Marie Stålnacke, Peter Rumney, Victor Coronado, Lena W Holm, Jörgen Borg, Catharina Nygren-de Boussard, Jean-Luc af Geijerstam, Michelle Keightley
Auto-titrating versus fixed continuous positive airway pressure for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review with meta-analyses
Stanley Ip, Carolyn D'Ambrosio, Kamal Patel, Ndidiamaka Obadan, Georgios D Kitsios, Mei Chung, Ethan M Balk
Knowledge synthesis and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Ian D Graham
Why prospective registration of systematic reviews makes sense
Lesley Stewart, David Moher, Paul Shekelle
Evaluation of patient involvement in a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data in cervical cancer treatment
Claire L Vale, Jayne F Tierney, Nicolette Spera, Andrea Whelan, Alison Nightingale, Bec Hanley
Efficacy of cognitive enhancers for Alzheimer’s disease: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Andrea C Tricco, Sondra vanderVaart, Charlene Soobiah, Erin Lillie, Laure Perrier, Maggie H Chen, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Sumit R Majumdar, Sharon E Straus
Effectiveness of brief interventions as part of the screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) model for reducing the non-medical use of psychoactive substances: a systematic review protocol
Matthew M Young, Adrienne Stevens, Amy Porath-Waller, Tyler Pirie, Chantelle Garritty, Becky Skidmore, Lucy Turner, Cheryl Arratoon, Nancy Haley, Karen Leslie, Rhoda Reardon, Beth Sproule, Jeremy Grimshaw, David Moher
Immigrant women’s experiences of maternity-care services in Canada: a protocol for systematic review using a narrative synthesis
Gina M A Higginbottom, Myfanwy Morgan, Jayantha Dassanayake, Helgi Eyford, Mirande Alexandre, Yvonne Chiu, Joan Forgeron, Deb Kocay
Use of cognitive enhancers for mild cognitive impairment: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Andrea C Tricco, Charlene Soobiah, Erin Lillie, Laure Perrier, Maggie H Chen, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Sumit R Majumdar, Sharon E Straus
Physical therapies as an adjunct to Botulinum toxin-A injection of the upper or lower limb in adults following neurological impairment
Bianca Z Kinnear
A framework for production of systematic review based briefings to support evidence-informed decision-making
Duncan Chambers, Paul Wilson
Mental health outcomes in HIV and childhood maltreatment: a systematic review
Georgina Spies, Tracie O Afifi, Sarah L Archibald, Christine Fennema-Notestine, Jitender Sareen, Soraya Seedat
Effectiveness of rifaximin and fluoroquinolones in preventing travelers’ diarrhea (TD): a systematic review and meta-analysis
Sanjin Alajbegovic, John W Sanders, Deborah E Atherly, Mark S Riddle
Treatment of hyperprolactinemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Amy T Wang, Rebecca J Mullan, Melanie A Lane, Ahmad Hazem, Chaithra Prasad, Nicola W Gathaiya, M Mercè Fernández-Balsells, Amy Bagatto, Fernando Coto-Yglesias, Jantey Carey, Tarig A Elraiyah, Patricia J Erwin, Gunjan Y Gandhi, Victor M Montori, Mohammad Hassan Murad
A protocol for a systematic review for perioperative pregabalin use
Naveen Eipe, John Penning, Mohammed Ansari, Fatemeh Yazdi, Nadera Ahmadzai
Does journal endorsement of reporting guidelines influence the completeness of reporting of health research? A systematic review protocol
Larissa Shamseer, Adrienne Stevens, Becky Skidmore, Lucy Turner, Douglas G Altman, Allison Hirst, John Hoey, Anita Palepu, Iveta Simera, Kenneth Schulz, David Moher
How explicable are differences between reviews that appear to address a similar research question? A review of reviews of physical activity interventions
Jenny Woodman, James Thomas, Kelly Dickson
Social gradients in child and adolescent antisocial behavior: a systematic review protocol
Patrycja J Piotrowska, Christopher B Stride, Richard Rowe
Effect of influenza vaccines against mismatched strains: a systematic review protocol
Andrea C Tricco, Ayman Chit, David Hallett, Charlene Soobiah, Genevieve Meier, Maggie Chen, Mariam Tashkandi, Chris Bauch, Mark Loeb
Implementing health promotion in schools: protocol for a realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom (UK)
Mark Pearson, Roy Chilton, Helen B Woods, Katrina Wyatt, Tamsin Ford, Charles Abraham, Rob Anderson
Access to regulatory data from the European Medicines Agency: the times they are a-changing
Beate Wieseler, Natalie McGauran, Michaela F Kerekes, Thomas Kaiser
A systematic review of the use of financial incentives and penalties to encourage uptake of healthy behaviors: protocol
Jean Adams, Emma L Giles, Shannon Robalino, Elaine McColl, Falko F Sniehotta
Military veterans with mental health problems: a protocol for a systematic review to identify whether they have an additional risk of contact with criminal justice systems compared with other veterans groups
James Taylor, Tessa Parkes, Sally Haw, Ruth Jepson
Overview of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of reminders in improving healthcare professional behavior
Amy Cheung, Michelle Weir, Alain Mayhew, Nicole Kozloff, Kaitlyn Brown, Jeremy Grimshaw
Sample size and power considerations in network meta-analysis
Kristian Thorlund, Edward J Mills
Clarifying differences between review designs and methods
David Gough, James Thomas, Sandy Oliver
Guidelines for randomized clinical trial protocol content: a systematic review
Jennifer M Tetzlaff, An-Wen Chan, Jessica Kitchen, Margaret Sampson, Andrea C Tricco, David Moher
Interactions of commonly used dietary supplements with cardiovascular drugs: a systematic review
Salmaan Kanji, Dugald Seely, Fatemeh Yazdi, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Kavita Singh, Alexander Tsertsvadze, Andrea C Tricco, Margaret E Sears, Teik C Ooi, Michele A Turek, Becky Skidmore, Mohammed T Ansari
Does intravascular ultrasound provide clinical benefits for percutaneous coronary intervention with bare-metal stent implantation? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Lucas Lodi-Junqueira, Marcos Roberto de Sousa, Leonardo Carvalho da Paixão, Silvana Márcia Bruschi Kelles, Carlos Faria Santos Amaral, Antonio L Ribeiro
A systematic review and meta-analysis of diabetes and risk of physical disability and functional impairment - protocol
Evelyn Wong, Kathryn Backholer, Jessica Harding, Emma Gearon, Christopher Stevenson, Rosanne Freak-Poli, Anna Peeters
Enhanced recovery after vascular surgery: protocol for a systematic review
Lesley Gotlib Conn, Ori D Rotstein, Elisa Greco, Andrea C Tricco, Laure Perrier, Charlene Soobiah, Tony Moloney
Waist circumference and pulmonary function: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Fernando César Wehrmeister, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Ludmila Correa Muniz, Jeovany Martínez-Mesa, Marlos Rodrigues Domingues, Bernardo Lessa Horta
HIV among immigrants living in high-income countries: a realist review of evidence to guide targeted approaches to behavioural HIV prevention
Tadgh McMahon, Paul R Ward
Study protocol: systematic review of the burden of heart failure in low- and middle-income countries
Derrick A Bennett, Thomas K Eliasz, Anna Forbes, Alastair Kiszely, Rajit Khosla, Tatjana Petrinic, Devarsetty Praveen, Roohi Shrivastava, Du Xin, Anushka Patel, Stephen MacMahon, Kazem Rahimi
Pharmacologic interventions for painful diabetic neuropathy: an umbrella systematic review and comparative effectiveness network meta-analysis (Protocol)
Marcio L Griebeler, Apostolos Tsapas, Juan P Brito, Zhen Wang, Olivia J Phung, Victor M Montori, M Hassan Murad
F-18-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/computed tomography imaging in primary staging of patients with malignant melanoma: a systematic review
Milly A Schröer-Günther, Robert F Wolff, Marie E Westwood, Fülöp J Scheibler, Christoph Schürmann, Brigitta G Baumert, Stefan Sauerland, Jos Kleijnen
The effectiveness of acupuncture research across components of the trauma spectrum response (tsr): a systematic review of reviews
Courtney Lee, Cindy Crawford, Dawn Wallerstedt, Alexandra York, Alaine Duncan, Jennifer Smith, Meredith Sprengel, Richard Welton, Wayne Jonas
Influenza vaccines licensed in the United States in healthy children: a systematic review and network meta-analysis (Protocol)
Gabriela J Prutsky, Juan Pablo Domecq, Tarig Elraiyah, Zhen Wang, Lisa A Grohskopf, Larry J Prokop, Victor M Montori, Mohammad Hassan Murad
Do randomized clinical trials with inadequate blinding report enhanced placebo effects for intervention groups and nocebo effects for placebo groups? A protocol for a meta-epidemiological study of PDE-5 inhibitors
Frederik Feys, Geertruida E Bekkering, Kavita Singh, Dirk Devroey
Postoperative outcomes following preoperative inspiratory muscle training in patients undergoing open cardiothoracic or upper abdominal surgery: protocol for a systematic review
Christina M Mans, Julie C Reeve, Catherine A Gasparini, Mark R Elkins
A note on the graphical presentation of prediction intervals in random-effects meta-analyses
Charlotte Guddat, Ulrich Grouven, Ralf Bender, Guido Skipka
Depression screening and mental health outcomes in children and adolescents: a systematic review protocol
Brett D Thombs, Michelle Roseman, Lorie A Kloda
Reporting participation rates in studies of non-pharmacological interventions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review
Ratna Sohanpal, Richard Hooper, Rachel Hames, Stefan Priebe, Stephanie Taylor
Does use of the CONSORT Statement impact the completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials published in medical journals? A Cochrane reviewa
Lucy Turner, Larissa Shamseer, Douglas G Altman, Kenneth F Schulz, David Moher
Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain: protocol for an individual participant data meta-analysis
Jill A Hayden, Jennifer L Cartwright, Richard D Riley, Maurits W vanTulder
Drugs commonly associated with weight change: umbrella systematic review and meta-analysis (Protocol)
Juan Pablo Domecq, Gabriela Prutsky, Zhen Wang, Tarig Elraiyah, Juan Pablo Brito, Karen Mauck, Mohammed H Lababidi, Aaron Leppin, Salman Fidahussein, Larry J Prokop, Victor M Montori, Mohammad H Murad
Functional assessments used by occupational therapists with older adults at risk of activity and participation limitations: a systematic review and evaluation of measurement properties
Kylie Wales, Lindy Clemson, Natasha A Lannin, Ian D Cameron
Body mass index and dental caries in children and adolescents: a systematic review of literature published 2004 to 2011
Merrilyn Hooley, Helen Skouteris, Cecile Boganin, Julie Satur, Nicky Kilpatrick
A systematic review of the role of school-based healthcare in adolescent sexual, reproductive, and mental health
Amanda J Mason-Jones, Carolyn Crisp, Mariette Momberg, Joy Koech, Petra De Koker, Cathy Mathews