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Adverse events of inhaled corticosteroids in adult patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: pairwise, network and dose–response meta-analyses

Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the associations between inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) and adverse events (AEs) in adults with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to ...
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Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on literature search

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RR) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...
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The effect of publication bias magnitude and direction on the certainty in evidence

Correspondence to Dr Mohammad Hassan Murad, Evidence-based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; murad.mohammad{at}mayo.edu When decision makers make a recommendation based on ...
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Mixed kinds of evidence: synthesis designs and critical appraisal for systematic mixed studies reviews including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies

Correspondence to: Professor Pierre Pluye Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3S 1Z1; pierre.pluye{at}mcgill.ca The present letter is to thank Drs Shaw, Larkin ...
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Reflections on the history of systematic reviews

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The limits of shared decision making

Correspondence to Professor Glyn Elwyn, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA; glynelwyn{at}gmail.com Nevertheless we ...
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Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on assessing the certainty of evidence

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RRs) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...
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Rapid reviews methods series: considerations and recommendations for evidence synthesis in rapid reviews

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Tramadol is an appropriate medication for some chronic pain A response to Barakji et al.:

ChatGTP was used in the preparation of this response. Along with several other references and resources, this artificial intelligence platform was used to help confirm or refute opinions and ...
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Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent

Evidence-based medicine (EBM’s) traditional methods, especially randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses, along with risk-of-bias tools and checklists, have contributed significantly to ...
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Optimising the process for conducting scoping reviews

Knowledge synthesis constitutes a key part of evidence-based medicine and a scoping review is a type of knowledge synthesis that maps the breadth of literature on a topic. Conducting a scoping review ...
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20 What can we do to reduce low-value imaging?

Objectives To investigate what can be done with the well-documented problem of low-value imaging. Method Systematic review searching Medline-Ovid, Embase-Ovid, Scopus, and Cochrane Library for studies ...