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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Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis
TL;DR: The literature indicates that both individual-focused and structural or organisational strategies can result in clinically meaningful reductions in burnout among physicians, and further research is needed to establish which interventions are most effective in specific populations.
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Risk-of-bias VISualization (robvis): An R package and Shiny web app for visualizing risk-of-bias assessments.
TL;DR: A new tool, robvis (Risk‐Of‐Bias VISualization), is presented, available as an R package and web app, which facilitates rapid production of publication‐quality risk‐of‐bias assessment figures.
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Systematic review of the relationships between objectively measured physical activity and health indicators in school-aged children and youth.
Veronica J. Poitras,Casey E Gray,Michael M. Borghese,Valerie Carson,Jean-Philippe Chaput,Ian Janssen,Peter T. Katzmarzyk,Russell R. Pate,Sarah Connor Gorber,Michelle E. Kho,Margaret Sampson,Mark S. Tremblay +11 more
TL;DR: The findings continue to support the importance of at least 60 min/day of MVPA for disease prevention and health promotion in children and youth, but also highlight the potential benefits of LPA and total PA.
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The methodological quality assessment tools for preclinical and clinical studies, systematic review and meta‐analysis, and clinical practice guideline: a systematic review
Xian-Tao Zeng,Yonggang Zhang,Joey S.W. Kwong,Chao Zhang,Sheng Li,Feng Sun,Yuming Niu,Liang Du +7 more
TL;DR: To systematically review the methodological assessment tools for pre‐clinical and clinical studies, systematic review and meta‐analysis, and clinical practice guideline.
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Surgery for weight loss in adults
TL;DR: All seven RCTs comparing surgery with non-surgical interventions found benefits of surgery on measures of weight change at one to two years follow-up and Improvements for some aspects of health-related quality of life (QoL) and diabetes were also found; the overall quality of the evidence was moderate.
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