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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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Latin American Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Systemic Treatment of Psoriasis SOLAPSO - Sociedad Latinoamericana de Psoriasis (Latin American Psoriasis Society).
Nora Kogan,Nélida Raimondo,Simon Eduardo Gusis,Ariel Izcovich,Jorge A Abarca Duran,Lilia Barahona-Torres,Orestes Blanco,Gerardo B Quintana,María C Briones,Carla Castro,Evelyn G Castro Vargas,Juan Martín Criniti,Juan Carlos os Diez de Medina,Manuel Franco,Minerva Gómez,Verónica P Levrero,Jaime E Martínez López,Fernando Valenzuela +17 more
TL;DR: The goal of this CPG is to improve the management of patients with psoriasis by recommending interventions of proved benefit and providing a reference standard for the treating physician.
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Dietary Elimination for the Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Paul Oykhman,Jared Dookie,Husam Al-Rammahy,Anna De Benedetto,R Asiniwasis,Jennifer S. LeBovidge,Julie Juan Wang,Peck Y. Ong,Peter A. Lio,Alvin Gutierrez,Korey L Capozza,Stephen A. Martin,Winfred Frazier,Kathryn Wheeler,Mark Boguniewicz,Jonathan M. Spergel,Matthew Greehawt,Jonathan I. Silverberg,O. Schneider,Derek K. Chu +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic review of the benefits and harms of dietary elimination for the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD) is presented. But, the authors did not address the potential risks for indiscriminate elimination diets including developing IgE-mediated food allergy and withholding more effective treatment options for AD.
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Winners and losers: communicating the potential impacts of policies
Cameron Brick,Alexandra L. J. Freeman,Steven Wooding,William J. Skylark,Theresa M. Marteau,David Spiegelhalter +5 more
TL;DR: The authors identify four characteristics of policy options that make their communication particularly difficult: heterogeneous impacts on different segments of the population, multiple outcomes, long timescales, and large uncertainties.
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Transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation followed by three‐dimensional conformal radiotherapy versus transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation alone for primary hepatocellular carcinoma in adults
TL;DR: To compare the beneficial and harmful effects of transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation followed by three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3-DCRT) versus TACE alone in adults with primary hepatocellular carcinoma, considered unsuitable for surgical resection is compared.
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Radix Sophorae flavescentis versus other drugs or herbs for chronic hepatitis B
Ning Liang,De Zhao Kong,Chun-Li Lu,Si-Si Ma,Yu Qi Li,Dimitrinka Nikolova,Janus Christian Jakobsen,Christian Gluud,Jianping Liu +8 more
TL;DR: It is uncertain as to whether Radix Sophorae flavescentis has a beneficial or harmful effect on adverse events considered 'not to be serious' in people with chronic hepatitis B, and a meta-analysed results as risk ratios with 95% confidence intervals were presented.
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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
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