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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 patient education as a stand-alone intervention for patients with chronic widespread pain and fibromyalgia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.
P H Duhn,E. Wæhrens,M. Bach Pedersen,S. Nielsen,Henning Locht,Henning Bliddal,Robin Christensen,Kirstine Amris +7 more
TL;DR: Patient education is recommended as an integral component of the therapeutic plan for the management of chronic widespread pain (CWP) and fibromyalgia (FM) through randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as mentioned in this paper .
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Third‐line systemic chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer
Shunkichi Ikegaki,Hirotaka Matsumoto,Yuki Kataoka,Katsuya Hirano,Hiraku Tsujimoto,Yukihiko Nakata,Morihiro Katsura +6 more
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Clinical and imagenologic significance of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: A systematic review with meta-analysis
Miguel Cabanillas-Lazo,Claudia Cruzalegui-Bazán,Milagros Pascual-Guevara,C. Quispe-Vicuña,F. Terry-Escalante,Nicanor Mori,Carlos Alva-Diaz +6 more
TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize the current evidence on the capacity of the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) to serve as a biomarker in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) was conducted in this article .
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Efficacy and safety of arthroscopy in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared arthroscopy with physiotherapy or joint lavage in patients with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and adverse events.
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Presentation approaches for enhancing interpretability of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in meta-analyses: a systematic survey of Cochrane reviews
Linan Zeng,Liang Yao,Yuting Wang,Mi Ah Han,Anders Granholm,Fernando Kenji Nampo,Borna Tadayon,Xiao-Feng Ni,Lingli Zhang,Tahira Devji,Gordon H. Guyatt +10 more
TL;DR: Cochrane review authors most often used MDs or SMDs for calculating and presenting the pooled effect measures of PROs but often failed to make explicit their criteria for categorizing the magnitude of effect as mentioned in this paper .
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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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