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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 Respiratory Muscle Training in Adults With Pulmonary Hypertension. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Ruvistay Gutiérrez-Arias,Jorge Hinojosa-Riadi,Adrián Sandoval-Cañío,Hannelore Santana-Garrido,Nicolás Valdovinos-Guerrero,Pamela Seron +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to determine the effectiveness of respiratory muscle training in adult patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) through controlled clinical trials comparing with sham or no intervention in adults with PH.
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Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing recurrent symptomatic episodes of acute diverticulitis
Loai Albarqouni,Yousuf ElMokhallalati,Mohammad Jh Elhissi,Said Alyacoubi,Sobhi Skaik,Khamis Elessi,Rahul Kumar,Balendra Pratap Singh,Vijay Kumar +8 more
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Intraoperative Liposomal Bupivacaine Does Not Reduce Opioid Use vs. Ropivacaine: A Systematic Review
TL;DR: A systematic review found that LB was not superior to ROPI in reducing postoperative OME use and hospital LOS and the only consistent finding was the significantly increased cost of LB compared to that of ROPi.
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Quadratus lumborum block for postoperative pain management in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The current literature suggests that a quadratus lumborum nerve blocks for THA does not reduce pain or opioid consumption compared to sham or active comparators.
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Effectiveness of interdental cleaning devices with active substances: a systematic review
Gerson Pedro José Langa,Pedro Paulo de Almeida Dantas,Gloria Marcela Ramírez Lemus,Carlos Guillermo Benítez Silva,Jonathan Meza-Mauricio,Francisco Wilker Mustafa Gomes Muniz +5 more
TL;DR: There is no robust evidence for the additional clinical efficacy of ICDs with active substances regarding their antiplaque and antigingivitis efficacies, but these devices may have additionalclinical efficacy when compared with the absence of interproximal hygiene.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
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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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