There is a paucity of evidence about the prevalence and risk factors for symptomatic infection among children. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of symptomatic COVID-19 and its risk factors in children and ...

The original version of this article was published with a mistake in one of the authors’ names. “Abdallah Musa Abdallah” is the correct full name but this was initially published as just “Abdallah Musa”. This has now been ...

Empirical evidence suggests that lack of blinding may be associated with biased estimates of treatment benefit in randomized controlled trials, but the influence on medication-related harms is not well-recognized. We aimed ...

The authors regret Tinh Doan’s affiliation in the paper ‘‘Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA’’ is incorrect. Tinh Doan’s correct affiliation is ‘‘ANU College of Health and Medicine, ...

There are a myriad of vaccine schedules for rabies pre- (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) that differ in the number and timedoses, number of visits, length of schedule, and route of administration. The objective ...

Dose-response meta-analysis has been widely employed in evidence-based decision-making. Currently, the most popular approach is the one or two-stage generalized least squares for trend model. This approach however has some ...

To investigate the effect of number of studies in a meta-analysis on the detection of publication bias using p-value driven methods. The proportion of meta-analyses detected by Egger's, Harbord's, Peters', and Begg's tests ...

Previous studies have placed those with excessive sedentary behavior at increased risk of all-cause mortality. There is evidence of interdependency of sedentary behavior with physical activity, and its elucidation will ...

The objective was to investigate the role of double extraction in reducing data errors in evidence synthesis for pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. Crossover randomized controlled trial (RCT). University ...