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Bradley C. Johnston
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 169
Citations - 10503
Bradley C. Johnston is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Systematic review. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 156 publications receiving 8056 citations. Previous affiliations of Bradley C. Johnston include University of Toronto & Halifax.
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Probiotics for the prevention of Clostridium difficile‐associated diarrhea in adults and children
Joshua Z. Goldenberg,Christina Yap,Lyubov Lytvyn,Calvin Ka-Fung Lo,Jennifer Beardsley,Dominik Mertz,Bradley C. Johnston +6 more
TL;DR: The overall evidence warrants moderate confidence in this large relative risk reduction of C. difficile infection in adults and children, and the overall quality of evidence for CDAD is downgraded to 'moderate' due to imprecision.
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Comparison of Weight Loss Among Named Diet Programs in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Meta-analysis
Bradley C. Johnston,Steve Kanters,Kristofer Bandayrel,Ping Wu,Faysal Naji,Reed A C Siemieniuk,Geoff D.C. Ball,Jason W. Busse,Kristian Thorlund,Gordon H. Guyatt,Jeroen P. Jansen,Edward J Mills +11 more
TL;DR: Weight loss outcomes for popular diets based on diet class (macronutrient composition) and named diet supports the practice of recommending any diet that a patient will adhere to in order to lose weight.
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Probiotics for the prevention of pediatric antibiotic‐associated diarrhea
Joshua Z. Goldenberg,Lyubov Lytvyn,Justin Steurich,Patricia C. Parkin,Sanjay Mahant,Bradley C. Johnston +5 more
TL;DR: The results from 22/23 trials reporting on the incidence of diarrhea show a precise benefit from probiotics compared to active, placebo or no treatment control, and this benefit remained statistically significant in an extreme plausible situation.
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GRADE guidelines: 13. Preparing Summary of Findings tables and evidence profiles—continuous outcomes
Gordon H. Guyatt,Kristian Thorlund,Andrew D Oxman,Stephen D. Walter,Donald L. Patrick,Toshi A. Furukawa,Bradley C. Johnston,Paul J. Karanicolas,Elie A. Akl,Gunn Elisabeth Vist,Regina Kunz,Jan Brozek,Lawrence L. Kupper,Sandra L. Martin,Joerg J Meerpohl,Pablo Alonso-Coello,Robin Christensen,Holger J. Schünemann +17 more
TL;DR: Alternatives include presenting results in the units of the most popular or interpretable measure, converting to dichotomous measures and presenting relative and absolute effects, presenting the ratio of the means of intervention and control groups, and presenting the results in minimally important difference units.
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Opioids for Chronic Noncancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Jason W. Busse,Li Wang,Li Wang,Mostafa Kamaleldin,Samantha Craigie,John J. Riva,Luis Montoya,Sohail M. Mulla,Sohail M. Mulla,Luciane Cruz Lopes,Nicole Vogel,Eric Chen,Karin Kirmayr,Kyle De Oliveira,Lori Olivieri,Alka Kaushal,Alka Kaushal,Luis Enrique Chaparro,Inna Oyberman,Arnav Agarwal,Arnav Agarwal,Rachel Couban,Ludwig Tsoi,Tommy Lam,Per Olav Vandvik,Sandy Huey-Jen Hsu,Malgorzata M Bala,Stefan Schandelmaier,Stefan Schandelmaier,Anne Scheidecker,Anne Scheidecker,Shanil Ebrahim,Vahid Ashoorion,Vahid Ashoorion,Yasir Rehman,Patrick Jiho Hong,Stephanie Ross,Bradley C. Johnston,Bradley C. Johnston,Regina Kunz,Xin Sun,Xin Sun,Norman Buckley,Daniel I. Sessler,Gordon Guyatt +44 more
TL;DR: Evidence from high-quality studies showed that opioid use was associated with statistically significant but small improvements in pain and physical functioning, and increased risk of vomiting compared with placebo, and Comparisons of opioids with nonopioid alternatives suggested that the benefit for pain and functioning may be similar.