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Metformin is comparable to insulin for pharmacotherapy in gestational diabetes mellitus: A network meta-analysis evaluating 6046 women.
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
The comparative efficacy of gestational diabetes (GDM) treatments lack conclusive evidence for choice of first-line treatment. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of metformin and glibenclamide to insulin ...
Methodological issues of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the field of sleep medicine: A meta-epidemiological study
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
An increasing number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (SRMAs) have been published in the field of sleep medicine. We evaluated the methodological issues of these SRMAs. A protocol was developed in advance. Three ...
Quality versus Risk-of-Bias assessment in clinical research
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Assessment of internal validity safeguards implemented by researchers has been used to examine the potential reliability of evidence generated within a study. These safeguards protect against systematic error, and such an ...
A proposed framework to guide evidence synthesis practice for meta-analysis with zero-events studies
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
ObjectiveIn evidence synthesis practice, researchers often face the problem of how to deal with zero-events. Inappropriately dealing with zero-events studies may lead to research waste and mislead healthcare practice. We ...
Evaluation of Gender Inequity in Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis: Differences by Sex in US Thyroid Cancer Incidence Compared with a Meta-analysis of Subclinical Thyroid Cancer Rates at Autopsy
(2021 , Article)
Importance: Thyroid cancer is more common in women than in men, but the associated causes of these differences are not fully understood. Objective: To compare sex-specific thyroid cancer rates in the US to the prevalence ...
The odds ratio is “portable” but not the relative risk: Time to do away with the log link in binomial regression
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Objectives: In a recent paper we suggest that the relative risk (RR) be replaced with the odds ratio (OR) as the effect measure of choice in clinical epidemiology. In response, Chu, and colleagues raise several points that ...
The Freeman–Tukey double arcsine transformation for the meta-analysis of proportions: Recent criticisms were seriously misleading
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2021 , Other)
Pooling of proportions in meta-analysis are used to get better and more precise estimates of disease frequency, including cumulative incidence or prevalence. Meta-analysis is of course only useful when there are a limited ...
Evaluation of Diagnostic Workup and Etiology of Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in a Cohort of 167 551 Patients Over 20 Years.
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Oxford University Press
, 2021 , Article)
Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) has not been studied in a fashion to determine all possible mechanisms of hypercalcemia in any given patient. The 2 objectives were to assess the completeness of evaluation and to determine ...
Correction to: 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT tumour intensity pre-operatively predicts adverse pathological outcomes and progression-free survival in localised prostate cancer
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Springer
, 2021 , Other)
Figure 2b is incorrect in the original paper, the correct Fig. 2 is shown below: (Figure presented.).