Relationship between the conflicts of interest and the results of meta-analyses of homoeopathy trials.
Published in BMJ evidence-based medicine
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on literature search.
Published in BMJ evidence-based medicine
This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RR) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process while maintaining systematic, transparent and reproducible methods. In this paper, we address considerations for RR searches. We cover the main areas rele...
Is a one-size-fits-all '12-month rule' appropriate when it comes to the last search date in systematic reviews?
Published in BMJ evidence-based medicine
'Being disabled' as an exclusion criterion for clinical trials: a scoping review.
Published in BMJ global health
People with disabilities (PWDs) are often excluded from biomedical research, but comprehensive data regarding their participation in clinical trials are not available. The objective of this study was to assess the rates of exclusion of PWDs from recent medical scientific research. The protocol of the study was designed according to PRISMA-ScR (PRIS...
Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury...
We conducted a content analysis of the literature underlying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Among Children (i.e., the Guideline) to determine the extent to which social determinants of health (SDoH) were examined or addressed. The systematic review formin...
Common methodological pitfalls in ICI pneumonitis risk prediction studies.
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BACKGROUND: Pneumonitis is one of the most common adverse events induced by the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), accounting for a 20% of all ICI-associated deaths. Despite numerous efforts to identify risk factors and develop predictive models, there is no clinically deployed risk prediction model for patient risk stratification or for gu...
Pragmatic and open science-based solution to a current problem in the reporting of living systematic reviews.
Published in BMJ evidence-based medicine
Living systematic reviews (LSRs) are an increasingly common approach to keeping reviews up to date, in which new relevant studies are incorporated as they become available, so as to inform healthcare policy and practice in a timely manner. While journal publishers have been exploring the publication of LSRs using different updating and publishing a...
Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women with a Mediterranean diet: systematic review and meta-analysis.
...Published in Heart (British Cardiac Society)
Dietary modification is a cornerstone of cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. A Mediterranean diet has been associated with a lower risk of CVD but no systematic reviews have evaluated this relationship specifically in women. To determine the association between higher versus lower adherence to a Mediterranean diet and incident CVD and total mo...
Eating disorders in weight-related therapy (EDIT): Protocol for a systematic review with individual participant data met...
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The Eating Disorders In weight-related Therapy (EDIT) Collaboration brings together data from randomised controlled trials of behavioural weight management interventions to identify individual participant risk factors and intervention strategies that contribute to eating disorder risk. We present a protocol for a systematic review and individual pa...
Incidence of admission ionised hypocalcaemia in paediatric major trauma: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analy...
Peer reviewed: True / Acknowledgements: The authors would like to acknowledge and thank Catherine Hancox and the Defence Medical Academic Library Team for their assistance with the search strategy. / INTRODUCTION: Hypocalcaemia forms part of the 'diamond of death' in major trauma, alongside hypothermia, acidosis and coagulopathy. In adults, admissi...
