The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
Julian P T Higgins,Douglas G. Altman,Peter C Gøtzsche,Peter Jüni,David Moher,Andrew D Oxman,Jelena Savović,Kenneth F. Schulz,Laura Weeks,Jonathan A C Sterne +9 more
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The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias aims to make the process clearer and more accurate.Abstract:
Flaws in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of randomised trials can cause the effect of an intervention to be underestimated or overestimated. The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias aims to make the process clearer and more accurateread more
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions for depression and anxiety in persons with multiple sclerosis
Kirsten M. Fiest,John R. Walker,Charles N. Bernstein,L A Graff,Ryan Zarychanski,Ahmed M Abou-Setta,Scott B. Patten,Jitender Sareen,James M. Bolton,James J. Marriott,John D. Fisk,Alexander Singer,Ruth Ann Marrie +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of psychological and pharmacological treatments for depression and anxiety in persons with MS was evaluated using systematic review methodology from database inception until March 25, 2015, and the results showed that depression severity improved in nine psychological trials of depression treatment (N =307; standardized mean differences (SMD) and pooled using random effects meta-analysis.
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The Evidence Project risk of bias tool: assessing study rigor for both randomized and non-randomized intervention studies
Caitlin E. Kennedy,Virginia A. Fonner,Kevin A. Armstrong,Julie A. Denison,Ping Teresa Yeh,Kevin R. O'Reilly,Michael D. Sweat +6 more
TL;DR: A tool for assessing risk of bias across both randomized and non-randomized study designs that is relatively easy to use and interpret and can be applied to a range of review topics without adaptation, facilitating comparability across reviews.
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Mobile App-Based Health Promotion Programs: A Systematic Review of the Literature
TL;DR: It is suggested that mobile app use is becoming commonplace for a variety of health-promoting behaviors in addition to physical activity and weight control in the general population without diseases.
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Inferiority or Even Superiority of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Phobias?-A Systematic Review and Quantitative Meta-Analysis on Randomized Controlled Trials Specifically Comparing the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure to Gold Standard in vivo Exposure in Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, and Social Phobia.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a systematic search of reports published until June 2019 and found no evidence that VR exposure is significantly less efficacious than in vivo exposure in Specific Phobia and Agoraphobia.
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Psychiatric symptoms caused by cannabis constituents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Guy Hindley,Katherine Beck,Faith Borgan,Cedric E. Ginestet,Robert A. McCutcheon,Daniël Kleinloog,Suhas Ganesh,Rajiv Radhakrishnan,Deepak Cyril D'Souza,Oliver D. Howes +9 more
TL;DR: There is no consistent evidence that CBD induces symptoms or moderates the effects of THC, and of the four studies evaluating CBD's effects on THC-induced symptoms, only one identified a significant reduction in symptoms.
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Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
Julian P T Higgins,Sally Green +1 more
TL;DR: The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is the official document that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions.
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TL;DR: The advantages of the GRADE system are explored, which is increasingly being adopted by organisations worldwide and which is often praised for its high level of consistency.
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Assessing Risk of Bias in Included Studies
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Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials
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