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What can the citations of systematic reviews of ethical literature tell us about their use?—an explorative empirical analysis of 31 reviews
BackgroundSystematic reviews of ethical literature (SREL) aim at providing an overview of ethical issues, arguments, or concepts on a specific...
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Humanistic and Economic Burden of IgA Nephropathy: Systematic Literature Reviews and Narrative Synthesis
BackgroundImmunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is a progressive inflammatory kidney disease requiring long-term treatment to reduce the risk of...
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Quality Appraisal in Systematic Literature Reviews of Studies Eliciting Health State Utility Values: Conceptual Considerations
BackgroundThe increasing number of studies that generate health state utility values (HSUVs) and the impact of HSUVs on cost-utility analyses make a...
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Adherence to literature search reporting guidelines in leading rheumatology journals’ systematic reviews: umbrella review protocol
Literature searches are important components of systematic reviews. They are not only informative of the retrieval process, but they also set the...
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Humanistic burden of pediatric type 1 diabetes on children and informal caregivers: systematic literature reviews
BackgroundDiagnosis of children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) imposes an unprecedented burden on children and their caregivers.
Objective ...
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Methodological quality of 100 recent systematic reviews of health-related outcome measurement instruments: an overview of reviews
PurposeSystematic reviews evaluating and comparing the measurement properties of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs) play an important role in OMI...
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Evaluation of a prototype machine learning tool to semi-automate data extraction for systematic literature reviews
BackgroundEvidence-based medicine requires synthesis of research through rigorous and time-intensive systematic literature reviews (SLRs), with...
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Management and recurrence of the odontogenic keratocyst: an overview of systematic reviews
Materials and methodsAn extensive literature search among six eletronic databases and Grey Literature was used to identify systematic reviews (S)...
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Overcoming challenges in conducting systematic reviews in implementation science: a methods commentary
Consolidation of the literature using systematic reviews is a critical way to advance a discipline and support evidence-based decision-making in...
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Impact of reimbursement systems on patient care – a systematic review of systematic reviews
BackgroundThere is not yet sufficient scientific evidence to answer the question of the extent to which different reimbursement systems influence...
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Definition, harms, and prevention of redundant systematic reviews
BackgroundAlong with other types of research, it has been stated that the extent of redundancy in systematic reviews has reached epidemic...
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Quality appraisal for systematic literature reviews of health state utility values: a descriptive analysis
BackgroundHealth state utility values (HSUVs) are an essential input parameter to cost-utility analysis (CUA). Systematic literature reviews (SLRs)...
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Clinical systematic reviews – a brief overview
ObjectiveSystematic reviews answer research questions through a defined methodology. It is a complex task and multiple articles need to be referred...
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Reporting of adverse events of treatment interventions in multiple myeloma: an overview of systematic reviews
The present study is an overview of systematic reviews focusing on adverse events of antimyeloma treatments. It provides a systematic description of...
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Artificial Intelligence in Head and Neck Cancer: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews
IntroductionSeveral studies have emphasized the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and its subfields, such as machine learning (ML), as...
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Intrafamilial Child Homicide: an Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews
PurposeSystematic reviews on child homicide have proliferated recently, making it hard to keep up with their output. Using an umbrella review...
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The burden of mitochondrial disease with associated seizures: systematic literature reviews of health-related quality of life, utilities, costs and healthcare resource use data
BackgroundMitochondrial disease is a degenerative, progressive, heterogeneous group of genetic disorders affecting children and adults. Mitochondrial...
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Summarizing the effects of different exercise types in chronic neck pain – a systematic review and meta-analysis of systematic reviews
BackgroundTo date, no consensus exists as to whether one exercise type is more effective than another in chronic neck pain. This systematic review...
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Methodological quality of systematic reviews in dentistry including animal studies: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundThe overall confidence in the results of systematic reviews including animal models can be heterogeneous. We assessed the methodological...
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Map** and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
IntroductionUmbrella review is one of the terms used to describe an overview of systematic reviews. During the last years, a rapid increase in the...