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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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Effectiveness of stop smoking interventions among adults: protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and an updated systematic review
Mona Hersi,Gregory Traversy,Brett D. Thombs,Brett D. Thombs,Andrew H. Beck,Becky Skidmore,Stéphane Groulx,Eddy Lang,Eddy Lang,Donna L. Reynolds,Brenda Wilson,Steven L. Bernstein,Peter Selby,Peter Selby,Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki,Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki,Douglas G. Manuel,Smita Pakhale,Smita Pakhale,Smita Pakhale,Justin Presseau,Justin Presseau,Susan Courage,Brian Hutton,Brian Hutton,Beverley Shea,Beverley Shea,Vivian Welch,Vivian Welch,Matt Morrow,Julian Little,Adrienne Stevens +31 more
TL;DR: The evidence review will evaluate the benefits and harms of various stop smoking interventions for adults and findings will be used to inform a national tobacco cessation guideline by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
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The Effect of Small Doses of Fructose and Its Epimers on Glycemic Control: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Feeding Trials
Jarvis C. Noronha,Jarvis C. Noronha,Catherine R. Braunstein,Catherine R. Braunstein,Sonia Blanco Mejia,Sonia Blanco Mejia,Tauseef Khan,Tauseef Khan,Cyril W.C. Kendall,Cyril W.C. Kendall,Cyril W.C. Kendall,Thomas M.S. Wolever,Lawrence A. Leiter,John L. Sievenpiper +13 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that small doses of fructose and tagatose may improve glycemic control over the long term.
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The efficacy and safety of triple inhaled treatment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis using Bayesian methods
TL;DR: Triple therapy with TIO and ICSs/long-acting β-agonists was only slightly more efficacious than TIO monotherapy in treating patients with COPD.
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World Allergy Organization (WAO) Diagnosis and Rationale for Action against Cow’s Milk Allergy (DRACMA) Guideline update – XIV – Recommendations on CMA immunotherapy
Jan Brozek,Ramon Targino Firmino,Antonio Bognanni,Stefania Arasi,Ignacio J. Ansotegui,Amal Assa'ad,Sami L. Bahna,Roberto Berni Canani,Martin Bozzola,Derek K. Chu,Lamia Dahdah,Christopher L. Dupont,Piotr Dziechciarz,Motohiro Ebisawa,E. Galli,Andrea Horvath,Rose Kamenwa,Gideon Lack,Haiqi Li,A Martelli,Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn,Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos,Ruby Pawankar,Yetiani Roldan,Maria Said,Mario Sánchez-Borges,Raanan Shamir,Jonathan M. Spergel,Hania Szajewska,Luigi Terracciano,Yvan Vandenplas,Carina Venter,Siw Waffenschmidt,Susan Waserman,Amena Warner,Gary W.K. Wong,Alessandro Fiocchi,Holger J. Schünemann +37 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present evidence-based guidelines from the World Allergy Organization (WAO) to support patients, clinicians, and others in decisions about the use of oral and epicutaneous immunotherapy for the treatment of IgE-mediated CMA.
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The evolution of GRADE (part 2): Still searching for a theoretical and/or empirical basis for the GRADE framework.
TL;DR: This series examines if version 3 of GRADE offered improvements on previous versions with respect to a justification scheme and how to operationalize the framework's criteria/components and suggests that version 3 has done little to improve on the justification scheme that sustains GRADE.
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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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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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