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Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials : is blinding necessary?
Alejandro R. Jadad,R. A. Moore,Dawn Carroll,C. Jenkinson,David Reynolds,David J. Gavaghan,Henry J McQuay +6 more
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An instrument to assess the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in pain research is described and its use to determine the effect of rater blinding on the assessments of quality is described.About:
This article is published in Controlled Clinical Trials.The article was published on 1996-02-01. It has received 15740 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Blinding & Jadad scale.read more
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Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors and Bone Fractures: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
TL;DR: Treatment with DPP-4 inhibitors could be associated with a reduced risk of bone fractures, according to a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials across type 2 diabetes patients.
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Impact of resistance training in cancer survivors: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: RT was shown to be associated with clinically important positive effects on muscular function and body composition in patients during treatment or in long-term follow-up.
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Probiotic therapy for the prevention and treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea: a systematic review
TL;DR: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials for the effectiveness of probiotic therapy found insufficient evidence for the routine clinical use of probiotics to prevent or treat CDAD.
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Telehealth interventions for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: a systematic review
Lis Neubeck,Julie Redfern,Ritin Fernandez,Tom Briffa,Adrian Bauman,Saul B. Freedman,Saul B. Freedman +6 more
TL;DR: Telehealth interventions provide effective risk factor reduction and secondary prevention and could help increase uptake of a formal secondary prevention by those who do not access cardiac rehabilitation and narrow the current evidence-practice gap.
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Effect of fish oil on arrhythmias and mortality: systematic review.
Hernando Leon,Marcelo C. Shibata,Soori Sivakumaran,Marlene Dorgan,Trish Chatterley,Ross T. Tsuyuki +5 more
TL;DR: Fish oil supplementation was associated with a significant reduction in deaths from cardiac causes but had no effect on arrhythmias or all cause mortality, and evidence to recommend an optimal formulation of EPA or DHA to reduce these outcomes is insufficient.
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Intraclass correlations: uses in assessing rater reliability.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present guidelines for choosing among six different forms of the intraclass correlation for reliability studies in which n target are rated by k judges, and the confidence intervals for each of the forms are reviewed.
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Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose three basic concepts: devising the items, selecting the items and selecting the responses, from items to scales, reliability and validity of the responses.
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Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials.
TL;DR: Empirical evidence is provided that inadequate methodological approaches in controlled trials, particularly those representing poor allocation concealment, are associated with bias.
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Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use.
TL;DR: The characteristics of several major methods (Delphi, Nominal Group, and models developed by the National Institutes of Health and Glaser) are surveyed and guidelines for those who want to use the techniques are provided.
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A method for assessing the quality of a randomized control trial.
Thomas C. Chalmers,Harry Smith,Bradley Blackburn,Bernard Silverman,Biruta Schroeder,Dinah Reitman,Alexander Ambroz +6 more
TL;DR: A reasonable standard design and conduct of trials will facilitate the interpretation of those with conflicting results and help in making valid combinations of undersized trials.