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Open AccessModels of integrated care for multi-morbidity assessed in systematic reviews: a sco** review
The prevalence of multi-morbidity is increasing globally. Integrated models of care present a potential intervention to improve patient and health system outcomes. However, the intervention components and conc...
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Open AccessPublic information needs and preferences on COVID-19: a cross-sectional study
Right from the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the general public faced the challenge to find reliable and understandable information in the overwhelming flood of information. To enhance informed decision...
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Open AccessEvaluating agreement between bodies of evidence from randomized controlled trials and cohort studies in medical research: a meta-epidemiological study
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies are the most common study design types used to assess the treatment effects of medical interventions. To evaluate the agreement of effect estimates betwee...
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Open AccessCOVID-19-Pandemie: Präferenzen und Barrieren für die Disseminierung von Evidenzsynthesen
Das COVID-19-Evidenz-Ökosystem (CEOsys) identifiziert, bewertet und fasst Ergebnisse wissenschaftlicher Studien in Evidenzsynthesen im Kontext von COVID-19 zusammen. Diese Evidenzsynthesen werden genutzt, um k...
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Open AccessA1- and A2 beta-casein on health-related outcomes: a sco** review of animal studies
Food-derived bioactive peptides may influence important physiological functions. An important example is beta-casomorphins, which are opioid peptides derived from A1 beta-casein in bovine milk and have been as...
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Open AccessImproving the trustworthiness of findings from nutrition evidence syntheses: assessing risk of bias and rating the certainty of evidence
Suboptimal diet is recognized as a leading modifiable risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Non-randomized studies (NRSs) with patient relevant outcomes provide many insights into diet–disease relationshi...
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Open AccessWork-related interventions for preventing back pain—protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Back pain is a widespread health problem that accounts for substantial disability and high costs. The workplace is considered to critically affect the occurrence and persistence of back pain and therefore offe...
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Open AccessMental burden and its risk and protective factors during the early phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: systematic review and meta-analyses
Mental burden due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been widely reported for the general public and specific risk groups like healthcare workers and different patient populations. We aimed to assess its impact on...
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Open AccessGuideline-based quality assurance: a conceptual framework for the definition of key elements
In 2017, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) started develo** a methodological framework for a guideline-based quality assurance (QA) scheme to improve cancer quality of care. During the fi...
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Open AccessBringing two worlds closer together: a critical analysis of an integrated approach to guideline development and quality assurance schemes
Although quality indicators are frequently derived from guidelines, there is a substantial gap in collaboration between the corresponding parties. To optimise workflow, guideline recommendations and quality as...
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Open AccessMixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol
The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+) is a research consortium concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases. CEBHA+ seeks t...
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Open AccessRationale and design of repeated cross-sectional studies to evaluate the reporting quality of trial protocols: the Adherence to SPIrit REcommendations (ASPIRE) study and associated projects
Clearly structured and comprehensive protocols are an essential component to ensure safety of participants, data validity, successful conduct, and credibility of results of randomized clinical trials (RCTs). F...
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Open AccessApproaches of integrating the development of guidelines and quality indicators: a systematic review
Guidelines and quality indicators (for example as part of a quality assurance scheme) aim to improve health care delivery and health outcomes. Ideally, the development of quality indicators should be grounded ...
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Open AccessUse of the GRADE approach in health policymaking and evaluation: a sco** review of nutrition and physical activity policies
Nutrition and physical activity policies have the potential to influence lifestyle patterns and reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases. In the world of health-related guidelines, GRADE (Grading of Reco...
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Open AccessPsychological and social consequences of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): a sco** review
Genomics-based noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPT) allow screening for chromosomal anomalies such as Down syndrome (trisomy 21). The technique uses cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) that circulates in the maternal bl...
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Open AccessStrategies for eliciting and synthesizing evidence for guidelines in rare diseases
Rare diseases are a global public health priority. Though each disease is rare, when taken together the thousands of known rare diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality, impact quality of life, and c...
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Open AccessWell informed physician-patient communication in consultations on back pain – study protocol of the cluster randomized GAP trial
Back pain is one of the most frequent causes of health-related work absence. In Germany, more than 70% of adults suffer from at least one back pain episode per annum. It has strong impact on health care costs ...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Integrated models of care for diabetes and hypertension in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): Protocol for a systematic review
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Open AccessIntegrated models of care for diabetes and hypertension in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) : Protocol for a systematic review
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing against an existing burden of other diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Integrated models of care can help address ...
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Open AccessResearch Integrity and Peer Review—past highlights and future directions
In May 2016, we launched Research Integrity and Peer Review, an international, open access journal with fully open peer review (reviewers are identified on their reports and named reports are published alongside ...
