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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...

2013

Scott, S. D., Johnson, D. W., Klassen, T. P., Bishop, T., Hartling, L.

Introduction Stories may be an effective tool to communicate with patients because of their ability to engage the reader. Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of story booklets compared to standard information sheets for parents of children attending the emergency department (ED) with...

2014

Hamm, M. P., Shulhan, J., Milne, A., Williams, G., Scott, S. D., Hartling, L.

Background: Social media use is highly prevalent among children, youth, and their caregivers, and its use in healthcare is being explored. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review to determine: 1) for what purposes social media is being used in child health and its...

2011

Seida, J., Vandermeer, B., Hartling, L., Dryden, D. M., Rowe, B. H., Bond, K.

Background The Risk of Bias (RoB) tool is used to assess internal validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Our objectives were to: 1) evaluate inter-rater agreement of the RoB tool; 2) determine the time to access supplemental study information; 3) compare the RoB tool with the Jadad...

2013

Guttman, A., Scott, S. D., McNaughton-Filion, M. L., Lougheed, M. D., Taljaard, M., Shafir, M., Klassen, T., Grimshaw, J., Johnson, D. W., Ducharme, F. M., Jabbour, M., Newton, A., Paprica, A., Rotter, T., Curran, J.

Background The clinical pathway is a tool that operationalizes best evidence recommendations and clinical practice guidelines in an accessible format for ‘point of care’ management by multidisciplinary health teams in hospital settings. While high-quality, expert-developed clinical pathways have...

2008

Shannahoff-Khalsa, D., Carlson, L. E., Buscemi, N., Dusek, J. A., Bond, K., Barnes, V., Ospina, M. B., Dryden, D. M., Karkhaneh, M.

OBJECTIVE: To provide a descriptive overview of the clinical trials assessing meditation practices for health care. DESIGN: Systematic review of the literature. Comprehensive searches were conducted in 17 electronic bibliographic databases through September 2005. Other sources of potentially...

2013

Scott, S. D., Archibald, M., Arseneau, D., Albrecht, L.

Background Influenced by an important paper by Michie et al., outlining the rationale and requirements for detailed reporting of behavior change interventions now required by Implementation Science, we created and refined a checklist to operationalize the Workgroup for Intervention Development...

2012

Scott, S. D., Hamm, M. P., Hartling, L., Klassen, T. P., Moher, D.

Background Pediatric randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are susceptible to a high risk of bias. We examined the barriers and facilitators that pediatric trialists face in the design and conduct of unbiased trials. Methods We used a mixed methods design, with semi-structured interviews building...

2013

Scott, S. D., Moher, D., Klassen, T. P., Hartling, L., Hamm, M. P.

Introduction A research-practice gap exists between what is known about conducting methodologically rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and what is done. Evidence consistently shows that pediatric RCTs are susceptible to high risk of bias; therefore novel methods of influencing the...

2012

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...