Browsing by Author "Lin, Lifeng"
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Data extraction error in pharmaceutical versus non-pharmaceutical interventions for evidence synthesis: Study protocol for a crossover trial
Yi, Zhu; Ren, Pengwei; Doi, Suhail A.R.; Furuya-Kanamori, Luis; Lin, Lifeng; Zhou, Xiaoqin; Tao, Fangbiao; Xu, Chang... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)BackgroundData extraction is the foundation for research synthesis evidence, while data extraction errors frequently occur in the literature. An interesting phenomenon was observed that data extraction error tend to be ... -
Data reproducibility issues and their potential impact on conclusions from evidence syntheses of randomized controlled trials in sleep medicine
Chang, Xu; Doi, Suhail A.R.; Zhou, Xiaoqin; Lin, Lifeng; Furuya-Kanamori, Luis; Tao, Fangbiao... more authors ... less authors ( 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 ... -
Double-zero-event studies matter: A re-evaluation of physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection for preventing person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 and its policy impact
Mengli, Xiao; Lin, Lifeng; Hodges, James S.; Xu, Chang; Chu, Haitao ( Elsevier , 2021 , Other)In a recent timely systematic review, Chu et al. [1] assessed the effectiveness of face masks, eye protection, and physical distancing for preventing COVID-19. Because the sample sizes are not large, especially in some ... -
Influence of lack of blinding on the estimation of medication-related harms: a retrospective cohort study of randomized controlled trials.
Xu, Chang; Zhang, Fengying; Doi, Suhail A R; Furuya-Kanamori, Luis; Lin, Lifeng; Chu, Haitao; Yang, Xi; Li, Sheyu; Zorzela, Liliane; Golder, Su; Loke, Yoon; Vohra, Sunita... more authors ... less authors ( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)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 Ligon lintless-2 Short Fiber Mutation Is Located within a Terminal Deletion of Chromosome 18 in Cotton<sup>1</sup>
Patel, Jinesh D.; Huang, Xianzhong; Lin, Lifeng; Das, Sayan; Chandnani, Rahul; Khanal, Sameer; Adhikari, Jeevan; Shehzad, Tariq; Guo, Hui; Roy-Zokan, Eileen M.; Rong, Junkang; Paterson, Andrew H.... more authors ... less authors ( American Society of Plant Biologists , 2020 , Article)Extreme elongation distinguishes about one-fourth of cotton (Gossypium sp.) seed epidermal cells as “lint” fibers, useful for the textile industry, from “fuzz” fibers (,5 mm). Ligon lintless-2 (Li2), a dominant mutation ...