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Tammy Hoffmann
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
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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 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 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 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...
