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Open AccessIncomplete reporting of complex interventions: a call to action for journal editors to review their submission guidelines
Reporting of intervention research has been inadequate for many years. The development and promotion of freely available checklists aims to address this problem by providing researchers with a list of items th...
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Open AccessTIDieR-telehealth: precision in reporting of telehealth interventions used in clinical trials - unique considerations for the Template for the Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist
Recent international health events have led to an increased proliferation of remotely delivered health interventions. Even with the pandemic seemingly coming under control, the experiences of the past year hav...
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Open AccessEffect of different visual presentations on the comprehension of prognostic information: a systematic review
Understanding prognostic information can help patients know what may happen to their health over time and make informed decisions. However, communicating prognostic information well can be challenging.
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Open AccessPreprints in times of COVID19: the time is ripe for agreeing on terminology and good practices
Over recent years, the research community has been increasingly using preprint servers to share manuscripts that are not yet peer-reviewed. Even if it enables quick dissemination of research findings, this pra...
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Open AccessRole of professional networks on social media in addressing clinical questions at general practice: a cross-sectional study of general practitioners in Australia and New Zealand
Clinicians frequently have questions about patient care. However, for more than half of the generated questions, answers are never pursued, and if they are, often not answered satisfactorily. We aimed to chara...
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Open AccessAn analysis of reporting quality of prospective studies examining community antibiotic use and resistance
Antibiotic resistance is a global problem, but the relationship between antibiotic use and resistance development and decay is not well understood. This knowledge is best provided by prospective studies, but t...
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Open AccessShared decision making and antibiotic benefit-harm conversations: an observational study of consultations between general practitioners and patients with acute respiratory infections
Little research has examined whether shared decision making (SDM) occurs in consultations for acute respiratory infections (ARIs), including what, and how, antibiotic benefits and harms are discussed. We aimed...
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Open AccessResistance decay in individuals after antibiotic exposure in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Antibiotic resistance is an urgent global problem, but reversibility is poorly understood. We examined the development and decay of bacterial resistance in community patients after antibiotic use.
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Open AccessEvidence-based practice educational intervention studies: a systematic review of what is taught and how it is measured
Despite the established interest in evidence-based practice (EBP) as a core competence for clinicians, evidence for how best to teach and evaluate EBP remains weak. We sought to systematically assess coverage ...
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Open AccessExpediting citation screening using PICo-based title-only screening for identifying studies in sco** searches and rapid reviews
Citation screening for sco** searches and rapid review is time-consuming and inefficient, often requiring days or sometimes months to complete. We examined the reliability of PICo-based title-only screening ...
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Open AccessExploration of the methodological quality and clinical usefulness of a cross-sectional sample of published guidance about exercise training and physical activity for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
Clinicians are encouraged to use guidelines to assist in providing evidence-based secondary prevention to patients with coronary heart disease. However, the expanding number of publications providing guidance ...
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Open AccessThe Contribution of Individual Exercise Training Components to Clinical Outcomes in Randomised Controlled Trials of Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-regression
While the clinical benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation are well established, there is extensive variation in the interventions used within these trials. It is unknown whether variations in indivi...
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Open AccessReducing the psychosocial impact of aphasia on mood and quality of life in people with aphasia and the impact of caregiving in family members through the Aphasia Action Success Knowledge (Aphasia ASK) program: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
People with aphasia and their family members are at high risk of experiencing post stroke depression. The impact of early interventions on mood and quality of life for people with aphasia is unknown.
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Open AccessA comparison of the performance of seven key bibliographic databases in identifying all relevant systematic reviews of interventions for hypertension
Bibliographic databases are the primary resource for identifying systematic reviews of health care interventions. Reliable retrieval of systematic reviews depends on the scope of indexing used by database prov...
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Open AccessFaster title and abstract screening? Evaluating Abstrackr, a semi-automated online screening program for systematic reviewers
Citation screening is time consuming and inefficient. We sought to evaluate the performance of Abstrackr, a semi-automated online tool for predictive title and abstract screening.
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Open AccessBetter duplicate detection for systematic reviewers: evaluation of Systematic Review Assistant-Deduplication Module
A major problem arising from searching across bibliographic databases is the retrieval of duplicate citations. Removing such duplicates is an essential task to ensure systematic reviewers do not waste time scr...
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Open AccessReporting of interventions in randomised trials: an audit of journal Instructions to Authors
A complete description of the intervention in a published trial report is necessary for readers to be able to use the intervention, yet the completeness of intervention descriptions in trials is very poor. Low...
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Open AccessCost effectiveness of patient education for the prevention of falls in hospital: economic evaluation from a randomized controlled trial
Falls are one of the most frequently occurring adverse events that impact upon the recovery of older hospital inpatients. Falls can threaten both immediate and longer-term health and independence. There is nee...
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Open AccessEvaluation of the effect of patient education on rates of falls in older hospital patients: Description of a randomised controlled trial
Accidental falls by older patients in hospital are one of the most commonly reported adverse events. Falls after discharge are also common. These falls have enormous physical, psychological and social conseque...
