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Perspectives of Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Toward Diabetes Self-Management: A Qualitative Study
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SAGE Publications
, 2022 , Article)
Background. The global increase in type 2 diabetes (T2D) poses a significant public health challenge worldwide. Due to the chronic and complex nature of the disease, management does not depend on pharmacotherapy alone; ...
Diagnostic accuracy of multiplex nucleic acid amplification tests for Campylobacter infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2022 , Article Review)
Campylobacter infection is one of the most frequently reported foodborne diseases with approximately 230,000 and 1.5 million cases each year in Europe and the USA, respectively. Culture methods are the reference for the ...
Likelihood ratio interpretation of the relative risk
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BMJ Publishing Group
, 2022 , Article)
Interpreting diagnostic test results in
medicine
The likelihood ratio (LR) is today commonly used
in medicine for diagnostic inference. Historically,
it was preceded by introduction, in 1966, of the
predictive value ...
Methodological quality assessment should move beyond design specificity.
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2023 , Article)
This study aimed to assess the utility of a unified tool (MASTER) for bias assessment against design-specific tools in terms of content and coverage. Each of the safeguards in the design-specific tools was compared and ...
Does the Sex of the Firstborn Child Affect the Breast Cancer Risk and Survival: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Over 1 Million Cases
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Galenos Yayinevi
, 2022 , Article)
Background: Reports on the risk and prognosis of breast cancer in relation to the sex of a child have been conflicting. Since medical sciences play an important role in informing sociocultural understandings of health and ...
A Delphi consensus study introducing a Problem And attRibutes‐bAsed DIabetes self‐manaGeMent (PARADIGM) intervention for patients with type 2 diabetes
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
AimEncouraging patients to improve their self-management behavior based on a strict definition of the intervention is important for a standardized delivery but, until recently, there was no consensus on the core attributes ...
Duration of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness against Severe Disease
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MDPI
, 2022 , Article)
Waning immunity following administration of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines remains a concern for many health systems. We undertook a study to determine if recent reports of waning for severe disease could have been attributed ...
Data reproducibility issues and their potential impact on conclusions from evidence syntheses of randomized controlled trials in sleep medicine
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
In this study, we examined the data reproducibility issues in systematic reviews in sleep medicine. We searched for systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials published in sleep medicine journals. The metadata in ...
Examining how meta-analytic methods perform
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Wiley
, 2022 , Other)
I read with interest the paper by Bramley et al.1 that concluded (regarding error estimation) that the IVhet method often outperforms the Henmi-copas (HC) method with fewer than 10 studies. They also concluded that the ...
The epidemic volatility index, a novel early warning tool for identifying new waves in an epidemic
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Nature Research
, 2021 , Article)
Early warning tools are crucial for the timely application of intervention strategies and the mitigation of the adverse health, social and economic effects associated with outbreaks of epidemic potential such as COVID-19. ...