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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 ...
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 ...
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive
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Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
, 2023 , Other)
It is true that when decision-making in medicine proceeds (e.g., drug A to prevent outcome Y), clinicians make use of research results that are reported in terms of estimated probabilities. Thus, Pr [Ya = 1 = 1] is the ...
Bias assessment: mQ or RoB?
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2023 , Other)
In a recent paper in the journal, Stone et al. propose that JBI adopt the term risk of bias (RoB) wherever critical appraisal, study validity, method- ological quality (mQ), or methodological limitations are used. The ...