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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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Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for promoting healthy behaviour or improving health outcomes
Aline Flatz,Nadine Pfeifer,Thomas Radtke,Susi Kriemler,Irma Klerings,Luke Wolfenden,Erik von Elm +6 more
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Stepping down from inhaled corticosteroids with leukotriene inhibitors in asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Matthew A. Rank,Michael R. Gionfriddo,Thanai Pongdee,Gerald W. Volcheck,James T. Li,Christina R. Hagan,Patricia J. Erwin,John B. Hagan +7 more
TL;DR: Only one study addressed the risk of substitution of LTRA for ICS in stable asthma, which limited any strong conclusions about this step-down strategy.
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Radix Sophorae flavescentis for chronic hepatitis B
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Investigating innovative evidence synthesis methods: the trial sequential analysis, the grade system and the network meta-analysis
TL;DR: Despite improvement, reporting of sample size calculation and power analysis remains inadequate, limiting the reader’s ability to assess the quality and accuracy of rehabilitation studies.
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Bleeding risk in patients using oral anticoagulants submitted to surgical procedures in dentistry: a systematic review protocol.
Rogério Heládio Lopes Motta,Cristiane de Cássia Bergamaschi,Natalia Karol de Andrade,Caio Chaves Guimaraes,Juliana Cama Ramacciato,Jimmy de Oliveira Araújo,Luciane Cruz Lopes +6 more
TL;DR: The results will help dentists in the decision-making process to minimise the risk of bleeding in patients using anticoagulants in their clinical practice.
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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
TL;DR: This is an account of further work on a rating scale for depressive states, including a detailed discussion on the general problems of comparing successive samples from a ‘population’, the meaning of factor scores, and the other results obtained.
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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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