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From the trenches: a cross-sectional study applying the GRADE tool in systematic reviews of healthcare interventions.
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Dryden, D. M., Vandermeer, B., Seida, J., Hartling, L., Fernandes, R. M.
Background GRADE was developed to address shortcomings of tools to rate the quality of a body of evidence. While much has been published about GRADE, there are few empirical and systematic evaluations. Objective To assess GRADE for systematic reviews (SRs) in terms of inter-rater agreement and...
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2012
O'Leary, K., Hartling, L., Kovacs Burns, K., Scott, S., Thompson, D., Newton, A.S., Ball, G.D.C., Hofmeyer, A., Albrecht, L., Jones, C.A., Dryden, D.M., Klassen, T.P.
Background: Knowledge translation (KT) aims to close the research-practice gap in order to realize and maximize the benefits of research within the practice setting. Previous studies have investigated KT strategies in nursing and medicine; however, the present study is the first systematic review...
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2012
Thomson, D., Chisholm, A., Hartling, L., Dryden, D. M.
Background: Overviews of systematic reviews compile data from multiple systematic reviews (SRs) and are a new method of evidence synthesis. Objectives: To describe the methodological approaches in overviews of interventions. Design: Descriptive study. Methods: We searched 4 databases from 2000 to...
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Spring 2012
Background: Demographics in residential care facilities for the aged have changed, such that residents are older, more functionally dependent, more cognitively impaired upon admission, and more of the elderly are entering these facilities with some or all of their natural dentition, rather than...
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Fall 2012
Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have an increased risk of bladder cancer, relative to non-diabetic individuals. We aimed to investigate factors that may influence this association. Some reports suggest an association between the glucose-lowering drug pioglitazone and bladder cancer. Our...
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Chapter 5 Supplement A: Included and Excluded Studies
2012-08-17
Chapter 5, Supplement A of a doctoral dissertation (Lau, D. Diabetes and Influenza-Attributable Illness: The Rationale for Targeted Influenza Vaccinations in Adults with Diabetes. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta, Fall 2012). This supplement contains certain methodological details, as well as...
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2012
Mendelsohn, M., Lischka, A.R., Overend, T., Forbes, D.
Early detection of dementia is essential to guide front-line health care practitioners in further clinical evaluations and treatments. There is a paucity of literature assessing the effectiveness of screening tools to predict the development of dementia, thus we conducted a systematic review to...
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Chapter 5 Supplement B: Meta-Analyses of Quality Improvement Interventions – Influenza Vaccinations
Chapter 5 Supplement B: Meta-Analyses of Quality Improvement Interventions – Influenza Vaccinations
Download2012-08-17
Chapter 5, Supplement B of a doctoral dissertation (Lau, D. Diabetes and Influenza-Attributable Illness: The Rationale for Targeted Influenza Vaccinations in Adults with Diabetes. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta, Fall 2012). This supplement contains forest plots from meta-analyses of...