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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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Comorbid With Psychiatric and Medical Conditions: A Meta-analysis
TL;DR: CBT-I is efficacious for improving insomnia symptoms and sleep parameters for patients with comorbid insomnia, and large-scale studies with more rigorous designs to reduce detection and performance bias are needed.
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Medical masks vs N95 respirators for preventing COVID-19 in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.
TL;DR: Respiratory protective devices are critical in protecting against infection in healthcare workers at high risk of novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19).
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Do interventions designed to support shared decision-making reduce health inequalities? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Marie-Anne Durand,Lewis Carpenter,Hayley Dolan,Paulina Bravo,Mala Mann,Frances Bunn,Glyn Elwyn +6 more
TL;DR: SDM interventions may be more beneficial to disadvantaged groups than higher literacy/socioeconomic status patients, and given the small sample sizes and variety in the intervention types, study design and quality, those findings should be interpreted with caution.
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of enhanced recovery programmes in surgical patients.
TL;DR: Whether the effect of ERPs on patient outcomes varies across surgical specialties or with the design of individual programmes is investigated.
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Immune-related adverse events for anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1 drugs: systematic review and meta-analysis
Shrujal S. Baxi,Shrujal S. Baxi,Annie Yang,Renee L. Gennarelli,Niloufer Khan,Ziwei Wang,Lindsay M. Boyce,Deborah Korenstein +7 more
TL;DR: Organ specific immune-related adverse events are uncommon with anti-PD-1 drugs but the risk is increased compared with control treatments, and general adverse events related to immune activation are largely similar.
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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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Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
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Gordon H. Guyatt,Andrew D Oxman,Gunn Elisabeth Vist,Regina Kunz,Yngve Falck-Ytter,Pablo Alonso-Coello,Holger J. Schünemann +6 more
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
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new algorithm called 1.8.1.1-2.0-1.8-1/2.8/1/1.
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Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials
TL;DR: The concept of study quality and the methods used to assess quality are discussed and the methodology for both the assessment of quality and its incorporation into systematic reviews and meta-analysis is discussed.