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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
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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.About:
This article is published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 461 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Units of measurement.read more
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Methodology for Knowledge Synthesis of the Management of Vaccination Pain and Needle Fear.
Anna Taddio,C. Meghan McMurtry,Vibhuti Shah,Eugene W. Yoon,Elizabeth Uleryk,Rebecca Pillai Riddell,Eddy Lang,Christine T. Chambers,Melanie Noel,Noni E. MacDonald +9 more
TL;DR: This manuscript describes the methodological details of a knowledge synthesis about pain management during vaccination and fear management in individuals with high levels of needle fear and presents the list of included clinical questions, critical and important outcomes, search strategy, and search strategy results.
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JSGE Clinical Practice Guidelines 2014: standards, methods, and process of developing the guidelines.
TL;DR: The second series of JSGE guidelines (JSGE Clinical Practice Guidelines 2014; Japanese version) was published, covering a total of four diseases, including guidelines for functional gastrointestinal disorder, colorectal polyp, and NAFLD/NASH.
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Digital health professions education on diabetes management : systematic review by the digital health education collaboration
Zhilian Huang,Monika Semwal,Shuen Yee Lee,Mervin Tee,William Ong,Woan Shin Tan,Woan Shin Tan,Ram Bajpai,Lorainne Tudor Car +8 more
TL;DR: Digital education seems to be more effective than traditional education in improving diabetes management–related knowledge and skills as well as its impact in diverse settings, including developing countries.
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Physical Therapy for Freezing of Gait and Gait Impairments in Parkinson Disease: A Systematic Review.
TL;DR: Physical therapy is an important element of the management of freezing of gait in Parkinson disease and only partially improves in response to dopaminergic medication.
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Effectiveness of reflexology on anxiety of patients undergoing cardiovascular interventional procedures: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
TL;DR: Reflexology has some positive effects on anxiety among patients undergoing cardiovascular procedures and may be a useful complementary therapy and further research is necessary to create reliable evidence.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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Development of a Rating Scale for Primary Depressive Illness
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GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables
Gordon H. Guyatt,Andrew D Oxman,Elie A. Akl,Regina Kunz,Gunn Elisabeth Vist,Jan Brozek,Susan L Norris,Yngve Falck-Ytter,Paul Glasziou,Hans deBeer,Roman Jaeschke,David Rind,Joerg J Meerpohl,Philipp Dahm,Holger J. Schünemann +14 more
TL;DR: The GRADE process begins with asking an explicit question, including specification of all important outcomes, and provides explicit criteria for rating the quality of evidence that include study design, risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, indirectness, and magnitude of effect.
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GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence
Howard Balshem,Mark Helfand,Mark Helfand,Holger J. Schünemann,Andrew D Oxman,Regina Kunz,Jan Brozek,Gunn Elisabeth Vist,Yngve Falck-Ytter,Joerg J Meerpohl,Susan L Norris,Gordon H. Guyatt +11 more
TL;DR: The approach of GRADE to rating quality of evidence specifies four categories-high, moderate, low, and very low-that are applied to a body of evidence, not to individual studies.
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