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The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews Open
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement, published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did, and what they found…
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The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews Open
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement, published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did, and what they found…
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The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews Open
Background: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement, published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did and what…
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The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research Open
Reproducible science requires transparent reporting. The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) were originally developed in 2010 to improve the reporting of animal research. They consist of a checklist of in…
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PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Statement Open
The PRESS 2015 Guideline Statement should help to guide and improve the peer review of electronic literature search strategies.
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Reading Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide, glossary, and checklist for clinicians Open
Mendelian randomisation uses genetic variation as a natural experiment to investigate the causal relations between potentially modifiable risk factors and health outcomes in observational data. As with all epidemiological approaches, findi…
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The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews Open
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement, published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did, and what they found…
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The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research Open
Reproducible science requires transparent reporting. The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) were originally developed in 2010 to improve the reporting of animal research. They consist of a checklist of in…
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The STROBE guidelines Open
An observational study is a type of epidemiological study design, which can take the form of a cohort, a case-control, or a cross-sectional study. When presenting observational studies in manuscripts, an author needs to ascertain a clear p…
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Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19: systematic review and critical appraisal Open
Objective To review and appraise the validity and usefulness of published and preprint reports of prediction models for prognosis of patients with covid-19, and for detecting people in the general population at increased risk of covid-19 i…
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CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials Open
The CONSORT Statement (CONsolidated Standards for Reporting Trials) is a reporting guideline designed to improve the transparency and quality of the reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). In this article, we present an extension…
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Preferred Reporting Items for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies Open
The 27-item PRISMA diagnostic test accuracy checklist provides specific guidance for reporting of systematic reviews. The PRISMA diagnostic test accuracy guideline can facilitate the transparent reporting of reviews, and may assist in the …
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CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain — United States, 2016 Open
This guideline provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. The guideline addresses 1) when to initiate or cont…
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COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist for systematic reviews of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Open
The COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist was developed exclusively for use in systematic reviews of PROMs to distinguish this application from other purposes of assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties, such as gu…
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GRIPP2 reporting checklists: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research Open
Background While the patient and public involvement (PPI) evidence base has expanded over the past decade, the quality of reporting within papers is often inconsistent, limiting our understanding of how it works, in what context, for whom,…
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The SCARE Statement: Consensus-based surgical case report guidelines Open
We present the SCARE Guideline, consisting of a 14-item checklist that will improve the reporting quality of surgical case reports.
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Evaluating barriers to adopting telemedicine worldwide: A systematic review Open
Introduction and objective Studies on telemedicine have shown success in reducing the geographical and time obstacles incurred in the receipt of care in traditional modalities with the same or greater effectiveness; however, there are seve…
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Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology using mendelian randomisation (STROBE-MR): explanation and elaboration Open
Mendelian randomisation (MR) studies allow a better understanding of the causal effects of modifiable exposures on health outcomes, but the published evidence is often hampered by inadequate reporting. Reporting guidelines help authors eff…
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PROBAST: A Tool to Assess Risk of Bias and Applicability of Prediction Model Studies: Explanation and Elaboration Open
Prediction models in health care use predictors to estimate for an individual the probability that a condition or disease is already present (diagnostic model) or will occur in the future (prognostic model). Publications on prediction mode…
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The Impact of mHealth Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews Open
Although mHealth is growing in popularity, the evidence for efficacy is still limited. In general, the methodological quality of the studies included in the systematic reviews is low. For some fields, its impact is not evident, the results…
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The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research* Open
Reproducible science requires transparent reporting. The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) were originally developed in 2010 to improve the reporting of animal research. They consist of a checklist of in…
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TRIPOD+AI statement: updated guidance for reporting clinical prediction models that use regression or machine learning methods Open
The TRIPOD (Transparent Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis) statement was published in 2015 to provide the minimum reporting recommendations for studies developing or evaluating the performa…
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Social support and protection from depression: systematic review of current findings in Western countries Open
Background Numerous studies report an association between social support and protection from depression, but no systematic review or meta-analysis exists on this topic. Aims To review systematically the characteristics of social support (t…
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Checklist for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CLAIM): A Guide for Authors and Reviewers Open
T he advent of deep neural networks as a new artifi- cial intelligence (AI) technique has engendered a large number of medical applications, particularly in medical imaging.Such applications of AI must remain grounded in the fundamental te…
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Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Treatment and Management of Patients With COVID-19 (April 2020) Open
Background There are many pharmacologic therapies that are being used or considered for treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is a need for frequently updated practice guidelines on their use, based on critical evaluation…
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The ARRIVE guidelines 2019: updated guidelines for reporting animal research Open
Reproducible science requires transparent reporting. The ARRIVE guidelines were originally developed in 2010 to improve the reporting of animal research. They consist of a checklist of information to include in publications describing in v…
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The pursuit of quality in grounded theory Open
This article introduces grounded theory and places this method in its historical context when 1960s quantitative researchers wielded harsh criticisms of qualitative research. The originators of grounded theory, sociologists Glaser and Stra…
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A Systematic Review on the Distribution of Invasive Plant Species Across Asia: Assessing the Rates of Invasion Success and Management Open
The advancement of invasive plant species in a particular environment is threatening across Asia. When they are introduced, they could have a variety of different negative effects, either as minor inconveniences or a severe problem. The ai…
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Estimation of national, regional, and global prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis Open
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (no external funding was sought).
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The PROCESS 2018 statement: Updating Consensus Preferred Reporting Of CasE Series in Surgery (PROCESS) guidelines Open
A modified and improved PROCESS checklist is presented, after a Delphi consensus exercise was completed.