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Albumin administration in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: A meta-analytic update
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Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
, 2021 , Article Review)
End-stage liver disease and its related complications exert a huge disease burden and reduce the survival rates of many patients. Albumin administration for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis has been a controversial ...
The MethodologicAl STandards for Epidemiological Research (MASTER) scale demonstrated a unified framework for bias assessment
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
Objective: This paper presents a unified framework for assessment of the methodological quality of analytic study designs. Study Design and Setting: A systematic review of 393 methodological quality assessment tools that ...
The coincidence of increased risk of atrial fibrillation in randomized control trials of omega-3 fatty acids: a meta-analysis
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2021 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Diagnostic accuracy of ELISA kits for measurement of rabies antibodies
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NLM (Medline)
, 2021 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Towards a better understanding of self-management interventions in type 2 diabetes: A meta-regression analysis
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
Aims: Attributes that operationally conceptualize diabetes self-management education (DSME) interventions have never been studied previously to assess their impact on relevant outcomes of interest in people with type 2 ...
Reply to: Let us not rush back to odds ratios in meta-analysis
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Research Methods for Zero Event Proportion Studies: The Incidence of Bleeding After Thoracentesis and Tube Thoracostomy in Patients With Uncorrected Coagulopathy
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
In a recent meta-analysis published in CHEST (November 2021), Fong et al1 investigated the incidence of bleeding after thoracentesis and tube thoracostomy in patients with uncorrected coagulopathy. The authors used the ...
Dysregulation of angiotensin converting enzyme 2 expression and function in comorbid disease conditions possibly contributes to coronavirus infectious disease 2019 complication severity
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American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapy
, 2021 , Article Review)
ACE2 has emerged as a double agent in the COVID-19 ordeal, as it is both physiologically protective and virally conducive. The identification of ACE2 in as many as 72 tissues suggests that extrapulmonary invasion and damage ...
Information on harm outcomes was insufficiently reported in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of individual participant data
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2021 , Other)
Meta-analysis is an important tool for summarizing findings from scientific research. But for harm outcomes,issues may arise due to the distribution problems, zero-events problems, as well as low statistical power. Individual ...