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Children are not just small adults: the urgent need for high-quality trial evidence in children.
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Offringa, M., Hartling, L., Craig, J. C., Klassen, T. P.
Children are often touted as being very important members of society because they represent our future. Optimizing their health outcomes has the potential for a huge impact on public health because children are at an early stage in the life trajectory. But it is often unclear how society...
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Efficacy and safety of exogenous melatonin for secondary sleep disorders and sleep disorders accompanying sleep restriction: meta-analysis.
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Vandermeer, B., Hartling, L., Buscemi, N.., Baker, G., Klassen, T. P., Vohra, S., Pandya, R., Tjosvold, L., Hooton, N.
Objective To conduct a systematic review of the efficacy and safety of exogenous melatonin in managing secondary sleep disorders and sleep disorders accompanying sleep restriction, such as jet lag and shiftwork disorder. Data sources 13 electronic databases and reference lists of relevant...
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2005
Swingler, G., Williams, K., Hartling, L., Moyer, V., Cramer, K., Klassen, T. P., Wiebe, N.
Background The delivery of optimal medical care to children is dependent on the availability of child relevant research. Our objectives were to: i) systematically review and describe how children are handled in reviews of drug interventions published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews...
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Which resources should be used to identify RCT/CCTs for systematic reviews: a systematic review.
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Cramer, K., Hartling, L., Wiebe, N., Klassen, T. P., Crumley, E. T.
Background Systematic reviewers seek to comprehensively search for relevant studies and summarize these to present the most valid estimate of intervention effectiveness. The more resources searched, the higher the yield, and thus time and costs required to conduct a systematic review. While there...
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2013
Shulhan, J., Hartling, L., Scott, S. D., Hamm, M. P., Chisholm, A., Given, L. M., Milne, A.
OBJECTIVE: To map the state of the existing literature evaluating the use of social media in patient and caregiver populations. DESIGN: Scoping review. DATA SOURCES: Medline, CENTRAL, ERIC, PubMed, CINAHL Plus Full Text, Academic Search Complete, Alt Health Watch, Health Source, Communication and...
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Storytelling as a communication tool for health consumers: development of an intervention for parents of children with croup. Stories to communicate health information.
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Hartling, L., Johnson, D., Scott, S. D., Bishop, T., Klassen, T. P., Pandya, R.
BACKGROUND: Stories may be an effective tool to communicate with and influence patients because of their ability to engage the reader. The objective of this paper is to describe the development of a story-based intervention for delivery of health evidence to parents of children with croup for use...
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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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Quantifying bias in randomized controlled trials in child health: a meta-epidemiological study.
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Hartling, L., Vandermeer, B., Dryden, D. M., Fernandes, R. M., Hamm, M. P.
Objective: To quantify bias related to specific methodological characteristics in child-relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Design: Meta-epidemiological study. Data Sources: We identified systematic reviews containing a meta-analysis with 10–40 RCTs that were relevant to child health in...
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Controlled trials in children: quantity, methodological quality and descriptive characteristics of pediatric controlled trials published 1948-2006.
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Tjosvold, L., Thomson, D., Vandermeer, B., Klassen, T. P., Cohen, E., Hartling, L.
Background The objective of this study was to describe randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled clinical trials (CCTs) in child health published between 1948 and 2006, in terms of quantity, methodological quality, and publication and trial characteristics. We used the Trials Register...
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Behavioural and developmental interventions for autism spectrum disorder: a clinical systematic review.
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Clark, B., Hartling, L., Krebs Seida, J., Karkhaneh, M., Smith, V., Tjosvold, L., Ospina, M. B.
BACKGROUND: Much controversy exists regarding the clinical efficacy of behavioural and developmental interventions for improving the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We conducted a systematic review to summarize the evidence on the effectiveness of behavioural and developmental...