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Poster An approach to assessing data richness in primary qualitative studies included in a qualitative evidence synthesis: a worked example
2019 Santiago
Ames, Lewin, Glenton
Background: in a qualitative evidence synthesis, too much data due to a large number of studies can undermine our ability to perform a thorough analysis. Purposive sampling of primary studies for inclusion in the synthesis is one way of achieving a manageable amount of data. One approach to study…
Poster A 40-hour tailored training programme improves evidence-based practice (EBP) competences in clinical nurses
2019 Santiago
Yeh, Chang, Dai, Chung, Wang
Background: today, medical care can be guided by evidence-based practice (EBP), and EBP is a well-accepted healthcare model for nursing practice in Taiwan. In order to perform EBP adequately, it is mandatory for healthcare professionals to acquire not only knowledge, but also skills and attitude…
Poster A Framework for Choosing Between Multiple Interventions in Guidelines
2019 Santiago
Piggott, Schünemann
Background: guidelines that are developed with the GRADE approach may encounter situations where multiple interventions exist for a given topic. In these scenarios guideline groups should compare all these interventions in order to be useful to the users who will themselves have to choose between…
Poster A critical review to nutrition clinical practice guideline
2019 Santiago
Cai, Sun, Chen, Bu, Yang, Gao, Zhang, Tian
Background: good nutritional status is crucial to health. In view of the importance of nutrition, many nutrition clinical practice guidelines (NCPGs) have been developed. However, the quality of these clinical practice guidelines are variable.
Objectives: to evaluate the quality of nutrition…
Poster A new approach to assessing the limitations of ‘non-conventional’ evidence sources: the ‘Ways of Evaluating Important and Relevant Data’ (WEIRD) tool
2019 Santiago
Lewin, Langlois, Tuncalp, Portela
Background: decision makers are interested not only in whether an intervention works but also how it works and its components. Programme and implementation descriptions, and other descriptive information, can provide valuable evidence on these questions. To include these sources in evidence…
Poster A qualitative and visual assessment approach of evidence - exemplified by Xiao Chai Hu Tang formula for chronic hepatitis B
2019 Santiago
Kong, Liang, Yang, Zhang, Liu, Liang, Li, Liu, Wang, Jakobsen, Gluud, Liu
Background: evidence should have minimized threats to the internal and external validity in order to guide clinical practice. Both internal and external validity can be influenced by the risk of three dimensional errors (i.e. systematic errors, random errors, and design errors). However, we lack a…
Poster Acceptance of systematic reviews as master/PhD thesis in Brazilian graduate programs in dentistry
2019 Santiago
Agostini, Dotto, Lemes, Spazzin, Pereira, Bacchi, Sarkis-Onofre
Background: systematic reviews (SRs) are considered to be the highest-quality evidence available, and important tools in healthcare decision making, and have been gaining in popularity over the last few years. They are considered to be secondary research because they collect and analyze data from…
Poster Accessibility and diversity of Cochrane Systematic Reviews
2019 Santiago
Vieira, da Rocha, Pinto, Batista, Milby, de Albuquerque, Saconato, Trevisani, Atallah
Background: it is estimated that there are around 6000 languages in the world. In science, the main form of propagation of knowledge occurs through the English language. However, 75% of the world population does not have the expertise to speak, write or read English, which may delay the spread of…
Poster Accessible Cochrane nutrition evidence: ‘packaging and push’ and ‘facilitating pull’ in action
2019 Santiago
Nguyen, Visser, Fisher, Schoonees, Naude, Durao
Background: the Cochrane Nutrition Field aims to support and enable evidence-informed decision-making for nutrition policy and practice by advancing the preparation and use of high quality, relevant nutrition reviews. Our knowledge translation (KT) activities strive to support getting the right…
Poster Accounting for comorbidity of patients in systematic reviews - a rehabilitation perspective
2019 Santiago
Meyer, Wulff
Background: systematic reviews have a major role for evidence-based care and form the basis of clinical guidelines. In rehabilitation, typical patients have co- or even multimorbidities, present in different patterns.
Objectives: the primary aim of this paper is to raise different conceptual…
Poster Accuracy of vascular ultrasound compared to angiotomography for extracranial carotid stenosis imaging
2019 Santiago
Takihi, Kanas, Daolio, Azevedo, Cardin, Cassola, Flumignan, Marcondes, Ávila, Vasconcelos, Guedes, Prestes, Nakano, Guedes, Amorim, Baptista-Silva, Flumignan
Background: vascular ultrasound (VU) is a non-invasive test for extracranial carotid stenosis (ECS) imaging with better risk-cost benefit when compared to magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), computed tomography angiography (CTA) and digital subtraction angiography (DSA). However, VU accuracy is…
Poster Active placebo versus standard placebo control interventions in pharmacological randomised trials: a systematic review
2019 Santiago
Laursen, Paludan-Müller, Hróbjartsson
Background: placebos are used as control interventions in randomized trials to enable blinding of participants and personnel. This can help reduce the risk of bias due to, for example, observer bias, reporting bias and bias related to placebo effects. Standard placebos in pharmacological trials…
Poster Acupuncture for depression: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
2019 Santiago
Xia, Liu, Barth, Wang, Yang, Hu, Wang, Tian, Huang, Liang, Sun, Lai, Yan, Zhao, Song, Fei
Background: depression is a highly prevalent mental disorder, and is the leading cause of years lived with disability counts for nearly three decades. Acupuncture is widely used in China and some other part of the world to help patients with depression.
Objectives: to evaluate effects and safety…
Poster Acupuncture in major depressive disorder: a scoping review of clinical practice guidelines
2019 Santiago
Fernandez-Chinguel, Goicochea-Lugo, Villarreal-Zegarra, Zafra-Tanaka, Taype-Rondan
Background: non-pharmacological approaches to treat depression include complementary and alternative medicine such as acupuncture. However, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) tend to give inconsistent recommendations in this regard.
Objective: the aim of this study was to describe the…
Poster An overview of evidence-based clinical studies on fasting therapy
2019 Santiago
Lu, Jin, Qiao, Tian, Liu, Bu, Li, Robinson, Liu
Background: obesity and metabolic syndrome have become a public problem recently. People are looking for a more effective, more convenient and safer dietary approach to calorie restriction and weight loss. Fasting therapy refers to calorie and diet restriction for different diseases/conditions, and…
Poster Analysis of research designs to support nursing or medical care
2019 Santiago
Kappes, Pacheo
Background: there is too much information available related to medical research. It is highly necessary to teach undergraduates, postgraduates, and nursing and medical students 'how to build' a correct medical question starting from patients, and also how to elaborate research questions…
Poster Analysis of the graphic report of results of randomized clinical trials in manual therapy: a methodological review
2019 Santiago
Núñez-Cortés, Pérez-Bracchiglione, Álvarez, Urrútia
Background: the number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in manual therapy (MT) has increased exponentially, and graphs are a usual way of summarizing the results. However, the quality of this kind of report has not been assessed yet.
Objectives: to assess the quantity and quality of graphs…
Poster Analysis of the report of the information necessary for the interpretation of the results in randomized clinical trials in manual therapy
2019 Santiago
Núñez-Cortés, Álvarez, Pérez-Bracchiglione, Urrútia
Background: the number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in manual therapy (MT) has increased exponentially. However, the quality of the reports remains heterogeneous.
Objectives: to describe the reports of the information necessary for the interpretation of the results in RCTs in MT and to…
Poster Application of Case Report (CARE) guidelines in nursing Science Citation Index (SCI-index) journals
2019 Santiago
Yang, Gao, Cai, Wang, Shang, Tian
Background: as a significantly important part of clinical practice, nursing should be advanced in the professionalization process in many ways. Case reports are regarded as lower grade in the hierarchy of evidence, but one of the principles of evidence-based medicine is that decision making should…
Poster Are awaiting classification studies properly managed by Cochrane Reviews?
2019 Santiago
Martimbianco, Pacheco, Latorraca, Ferreira, Riera
Background: studies 'awaiting classification' are potentially eligible studies that cannot be assessed for inclusion or exclusion in a systematic review (SR) due to insufficient information. However, these studies may have an impact on the review’s conclusion, and Cochrane authors should…