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Nancy D Berkman
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 40
Citations - 3478
Nancy D Berkman is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Systematic review & Observational study. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 40 publications receiving 3011 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy D Berkman include United States Department of Health and Human Services & Research Triangle Park.
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Literacy and health outcomes
TL;DR: Low literacy is associated with several adverse health outcomes and future research, using more rigorous methods, will better define these relationships and guide developers of new interventions.
Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions
Meera Viswanathan,Mohammed T. Ansari,Nancy D Berkman,Stephanie Chang,Lisa Hartling,Melissa L McPheeters,P Lina Santaguida,Tatyana Shamliyan,Kavita Singh,Alexander Tsertsvadze,Jonathan Treadwell +10 more
TL;DR: This Guide presents issues key to the development of Comparative Effectiveness Reviews and describes recommended approaches for addressing difficult, frequently encountered methodological issues.
Assessing Risk of Bias and Confounding in Observational Studies of Interventions or Exposures: Further Development of the RTI Item Bank
TL;DR: This article developed a framework for the assessment of the risk of bias and confounding against causality from a body of observational evidence, and to refine a tool to aid in identifying risk of biases, confounding, and precision in individual studies.
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Recommendations for assessing the risk of bias in systematic reviews of health-care interventions
Meera Viswanathan,Carrie D. Patnode,Nancy D Berkman,Eric B. Bass,Stephanie Chang,Lisa Hartling,M. Hassan Murad,Jonathan Treadwell,Robert L. Kane +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present guidelines for risk-of-bias assessment in systematic reviews, focusing on transparency and reproducibility of judgments, separating risk of bias from other constructs such as applicability and precision.
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Screening to Prevent Osteoporotic Fractures: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force
Meera Viswanathan,Meera Viswanathan,Shivani Reddy,Shivani Reddy,Nancy D Berkman,Nancy D Berkman,Katie Cullen,Katie Cullen,Jennifer Cook Middleton,Jennifer Cook Middleton,Wanda K. Nicholson,Leila C. Kahwati,Leila C. Kahwati +12 more
TL;DR: In women, screening to prevent osteoporotic fractures may reduce hip fractures, and treatment reduced the risk of vertebral and nonvertebral fractures; there was not consistent evidence of treatment harms.