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Poster PubMed Similar Articles as search method in rapid reviews
2019 Santiago
Klerings, Glechner
Background: EbM Ärzteinformationszentrum (Ebminfo.at) is a rapid review (RR) service for doctors working in Lower Austrian hospitals. Reviews generally focus on narrow clinical questions and use systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials as evidence base. To streamline the search process,…
Poster Qualitative evidence synthesis: three different approaches to using framework synthesis within healthcare research
2019 Santiago
Shaw, Orr, Abbott, Gwernan-Jones, Thompson Coon, Garside
Objectives: to share our experiences, methods and outcomes of three recently undertaken qualitative evidence syntheses, each incorporating a different way of working with framework synthesis.
Methods: our first example of framework synthesis is the approach used within a traditional nine-month…
Poster Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
2019 Santiago
Montesinos-Guevara, Hidalgo, Viteri-García, Escobar Liquitay , Franco , Simancas-Racines
Background: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis, which are chronic disorders characterized by inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. IBD mainly occurs after the second decade of life. IBD is known to be caused by a combination of genetic and…
Poster Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the treatment of psoriasis
2019 Santiago
Montesinos-Guevara, Andrade Miranda, Bedoya Hurtado , Escobar Liquitay , Viteri-García, Franco, Simancas-Racines
Background: psoriasis is a chronic and multisystemic inflammatory disease with predominantly skin and joint manifestations. It is characterized by an abnormal regulation of T cells and keratinocyte interaction. Its prevalence ranges between 0.09% to 5.1% in several countries. It mainly occurs…
Poster Quality of evidence in main comparisons of Cochrane intervention reviews
2019 Santiago
Civile, Câmara, Rocha, Pinto, Saconato, Atallah, Trevisani
Background: in recent years, quality of evidence assessment of Cochrane Reviews has been advocated in order to increase the degree of certainty and confidence about the clinical outcome results presented from the analyzed studies. The GRADE approach considers the limitations in study designs,…
Poster Quality of studies published as systematic reviews on nutritional interventions in cancer prevention – a systematic methodological survey
2019 Santiago
Bala, Storman, Koperny, Zajac, Tobola, Swierz, Staskiewicz, Górecka, Skuza, Johnston
Background: previous studies addressing the quality of systematic reviews/meta-analyses (SR/MAs) in several healthcare fields have demonstrated that review methodology and overall quality is often questionable; such an assessment is lacking in the nutrition field.
Objectives: we aimed to examine…
Poster Ranking of evidence in network meta-analysis results in misleading conclusion - a case study
2019 Santiago
Noori, W. Busse, Siemieniuk, Sadeghirad, Montoya, Jiho Hong, Zhou, Wang, Couban, Brignardello-Petersen, Juurlink, Thabane, H. Guyatt
Background: opioids are often prescribed for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP). Thus far, systematic reviews have pooled different opioids assuming a common effect; however, the comparative effectiveness of individual opioids, and of long-acting (LA) versus short-acting (SA) opioids, on pain relief is…
Poster Rapid production of a series of evidence reviews for a Dutch policy maker: highlights from the obstructive sleep apnea comorbidities initiative
2019 Santiago
Bergman, Cogo, Petkovic, Villanueva, Henschke, Spijker, Hooft, Scholten
Background: many different entities and constellations exist within the Cochrane community that jointly take on the production of not only Cochrane Reviews, but also other types of evidence reviews. Here we report on one such project. Cochrane Netherlands and Cochrane Response joined forces to…
Poster Rapid review definition and methods: two scoping reviews
2019 Santiago
Hamel, Michaud, Affengruber, Skidmore, Stevens, Nussbaumer-Streit, Garritty
Background: rapid reviews (RRs) have become a pragmatic alternative to systematic reviews (SRs) because they can be completed in less time and provide decision makers with quick answers to urgent health system questions. The saving in resources (i.e. time and cost) is usually achieved by…
Poster Rapid review on child food insecurity: challenges encountered
2019 Santiago
Aceves-Martins, Cruickshank, Fraser, Brazzelli
Background: child food insecurity (CFI) is a multifaceted, socioeconomic problem involving difficulties accessing sufficient safe and nutritious food to meet children’s dietary requirements. In the UK, over 7 million children live in relative or absolute poverty and are, therefore, at risk of CFI.…
Poster Rapid, rapid, rapid…how reliable is a single screener? A crowd-based, randomized methods study (Part 2)
2019 Santiago
Affengruber, Gartlehner, Titscher, Noel-Storr, Dooley
(Please note Part 1)
Background: this poster refers to the submitted abstract “Rapid, rapid, rapid…how reliable is a single screener? A crowd-based, randomized methods study (Part 1)”, which presents a randomized methods study to assess the validity of single-reviewer compared with dual-reviewer…
Poster Rating the quality of evidence in Cochrane network meta-analysis: a cross-sectional study
2019 Santiago
Saiz, Leache, Erviti
Background: according to the traditional GRADE approach, indirect comparisons should usually lead to lowering the quality of the evidence due to indirectness by at least one point. Therefore, network meta-analyses (NMA) that combine direct and indirect comparisons would be expected to downgrade…
Poster Rationale for writing a teaching book on elemental skills for critically reading biomedical literature for low- and medium-income countries
2019 Santiago
Rodriguez
Background: evidence-based healthcare decisions has been an established method of how to practice medicine since the first years of 1990, and accepted as a new paradigm, but in many low- and low-to-middle-income countries, the teaching of the necessary skills to find and comprehend and appraise the…
Poster Real-world effectiveness of long-acting injections for reducing recurrent hospitalizations in patients with schizophrenia
2019 Santiago
Yun, Baek, Kim, Seo, Lee
Background: the comparative effectiveness of antipsychotic long-acting injections (LAIs) and oral medication is not clear due to various methodological problems.
Objectives: to compare the effectiveness of LAIs and oral antipsychotics for preventing readmission in patients with schizophrenia…
Poster Reporting of Cochrane Systematic Review protocols with network meta-analyses – a scoping review
2019 Santiago
Wang, Seidler, van Wely, Askie, Mol
Background: network meta-analyses have increased in popularity in systematic reviews as they compare multiple treatments for the same clinical condition. Publishing systematic review protocols is a fundamental part of Cochrane Systematic Reviews to ensure transparency and reproducibility. As…
Poster Reporting quality and its influencing factors in randomized controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine for cancer
2019 Santiago
Han, Li, Zhang, Lu, Fei, Zhou, Zhang, Yang, Feng, Long, Deng, Li, Cao, Mao, Zhu, Hong, Huang, Qiu, Liu, Wang, Yan, Guan, Dong, Luo, Chen, Liu
Background: randomized controlled trials (RCT) have been increasingly used to assess the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) interventions, yet the quality of these trials is generally low, which might hamper the implementation and synthesis of the trial results.
Objectives: to…
Poster Reporting quality of continuous quality-improvement studies in the nursing field published in China
2019 Santiago
Yang, Gao, Cai, Sun, Wang, Shang, Tian
Background: the improvement of nursing quality is an important guarantee and a critical step of nursing work. Hence, the quality-improvement study has received broad attention. However, due to the differences in research design and intervention strategies, large deviations exist in reporting of…
Poster Risk of bias of studies published as systematic reviews on nutritional interventions in cancer prevention – a systematic survey
2019 Santiago
Bala, Storman, Koperny, Zając, Tobola, Swierz, Staskiewicz, Gorecka, Skuza, Johnston
Background: studies published as systematic reviews/meta-analyses (SR/MAs) on nutrition in cancer prevention may face problems similar to those documented in other fields, that is, poor overall quality, but no study has systematically examined this.
Aims: the overall aim of this research is to…
Poster Sarcopenia and chronic renal disease: a scoping review
2019 Santiago
Borges, Lima, Carvalho, Ribeiro, Lima, Gottems, Mizusaki Imoto
Background: in chronic kidney disease (CKD), nutritional disorders are frequent and have a direct influence on patients' quality of life. Sarcopenia is characterized by loss of muscle mass, and is associated with loss of muscle strength, or performance, or both. Among geriatric syndromes,…
Poster Scientific development and knowledge diffusion through academic leagues: the experience from vascular and endovascular surgery's academic league of UNIFESP, Brazil
2019 Santiago
Attie, Soares, Avancini, Silva, Pessutti, Estrutti, Trincado, Vasconcelos, Amorim, Flumignan, Nakano, Guedes
Background: current medicine is evidence-based, and such evidence needs to be put into practice from the moment of teaching. One of these ways is via academic leagues, where undergraduate students with interests in common, engage in extracurricular activities that include patient care, clinical…