Recently the Cochrane Collaboration, which maintains a set of databases
providing systematic reviews of the scientific evidence related to various healthcare practices, published a review on restricting oral fluid and food intake during labor.
Research on child maltreatment has increased over the past 15 years and meta - analyses and reviews of the literature on the effectiveness of home visiting programs to prevent child maltreatment exist.10, 11,12 However, until recently there was not a wide ranging systematic review of the evidence on home visiting.7, 13,14,15,16 An effort launched in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE), filled this gap by
providing a systematic review of the early childhood home visiting research with particular attention to its applicability to the prevention of child maltreatment.
Not exact matches
In an ideal world,
systematic reviews provide access to all the available evidence on specific exposure — disease associations, but publication bias related to authors» conflicts of interest may affect the reliability of the conclusions of such studies.
systematic review of the literature
providing evidence to support current best practices that promote natural, safe, and healthy birth;
Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units
provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a
systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support
provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.
Additionally, a
systematic review of PPI studies in treatment of reflux determines that they
provide no more benefit than placebos.7
Where
systematic reviews or meta - analyses are available, allowing analysis of findings from a number of well - selected studies, these obviously
provide a stronger evidence base on which it is possible to base arguments with greater conviction.
Coast E, Jones E, Lattof SR, Portela A. Effectiveness of interventions to
provide culturally appropriate maternity care in increasing uptake of skilled maternity care: a
systematic review.
Providing linkage to breastfeeding support to mothers on discharge to improve breastfeeding outcomes: a
systematic review [protocol].
One of the major strengths of the present
review is that data were obtained from all relevant studies identified; 13 studies (76 %)
provided additional analyses with
systematic adjustment for potential confounders (including the 7 studies that reported exclusive feeding).
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Providing pain relief for neuropathy is crucial to managing this complicated disease,» said Julie Waldfogel, PharmD, of The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and author of the
systematic review.
The study is the first
systematic review of non-specialist health workers
providing MNS care in low - and middle - income countries.
Moreover, we complemented the
systematic and comprehensive literature
review with several ALE meta - analyses,
providing analytic results for stronger evidence that are supported statistically.
This study
provides the first
systematic review and meta - analysis of survey data on scientific misconduct.
Conclusion: (looking only at subjects with existing CVD) The present
systematic review provides no evidence (moderate quality evidence) for the beneficial effects of reduced / modified fat diets in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.
It's important to remember that, as this is a
systematic review study, it
provides large - scale average values rather than specific diet strategies.
Yet when you look at
systematic reviews on what we can do to prevent cognitive decline, you'll see conclusions like this: «The current literature does not
provide adequate evidence to make recommendations for interventions.»
Systematic reviews and meta - analyses of prospective cohort studies assessing the relationship between legumes, which include dietary pulses, and the risk of CHD at doses & 4 weekly 100 - g servings
provide moderate - quality evidence of a benefit.
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4490.short About 5 servings a day is enough according to this
systematic review, more does not
provide more benefits.
They
reviewed the data in articles from 1977 to the present and concluded, «the main findings of this
systematic review and meta - analysis are that the epidemiological evidence currently available to the dietary committees
provides no statistically significant retrospective support for the introduction of dietary fat guidelines.»
In fact, new research combining meta - analysis and
systematic review, which investigated the clinical effects of vitamin C on endothelial function, is
providing interesting insight into this amazing free - radical scavenger.
This video
provides an overview of Word Warm - ups, a supplemental program for students who need support in phonemic awareness and a
systematic review of phonics skills.
And a
systematic review of C.B.T. for insomnia recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine discusses just how much relief it actually can
provide.
Sixteen
systematic reviews provided data on 17 comparisons with inactive interventions (placebo, sham interventions or waiting list).30 — 32 35 — 37 39 — 43 45 — 50 figure 2
provides an overview of treatment effects of non-pharmacological and common pharmacological treatments for MDD when compared with inactive interventions using standardised mean differences.
Formal scoping
review methodology will be used to
provide a
systematic, rigorous, transparent and reproducible
review.
Caregiver - focused groups were rated as
providing skills such as information and support that reduced the negative appraisal of caregiving, decreased uncertainty and lessened hopelessness, while also teaching skills to cope with the stresses of caregiving.66 This supports suggestions that such groups might give caregivers the chance to openly interact with other caregivers in the absence of their care recipients.57 Moreover, in a
systematic review of psychosocial interventions, group based or otherwise, caregivers listed the most useful aspect of interventions as regular interactions with a professional,
providing the chance to openly communicate issues with them, and as a time to talk about feelings and questions related to cancer.13, 66
The report
provides a descriptive summary of key literature on concurrent eating disorders and depression / anxiety, including
systematic reviews.
Group based parenting programmes, run both by professionals and by parents, are becoming increasingly popular in the UK and a range of different programmes are available.10 Four recent
systematic reviews, one focusing entirely on group based programmes, 11 and three covering these programmes within wider
reviews of mental health promotion and behaviour problem prevention12 — 14 have
provided evidence that group based parenting programmes are an effective and cost effective way to improve parenting, and that such changes have a beneficial effect on children's mental health and behaviour.
The following resources
provide guidance for ensuring that families play an important role in the CFSR process and other
systematic reviews.
-- Vincent Guarnaccia, Ph.D., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book
Reviews Atkinson's clearly illustrated, conceptually
systematic and research - based PET - C model
provides... an integrated method for problem solving difficult couples» issues.
In the event that we identify relevant cluster - RCTs that meet the inclusion criteria of the
review, we will deploy appropriate statistical methods based on the guidance
provided in the Cochrane Handbook for
Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Higgins 2011b).
If two or more eligible intervention groups are compared to an eligible control, we will consider combining the data,
providing that each meets all inclusion criteria, using the methods documented in the Cochrane Handbook for
Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Higgins 2011b).
Through synthesis of contemporary meta - analytic and
systematic reviews and summaries of individual play therapy outcome studies meeting criteria for methodological rigor and treatment protocol, this chapter
provides play therapy practitioners with a guide to understanding and utilizing the substantial research base for play therapy.
This is the first
systematic review and meta - analysis to
provide a comprehensive estimate of the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms among outpatients considering different clinical specialties.
A
systematic review has
provided evidence that such programmes can significantly improve a range of aspects of parental mental health, including anxiety, depression, and self - esteem (Barlow 2012).
The aim of this study is to conduct a
systematic review and meta - analysis to
provide a precise estimate of the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms among outpatients in different clinical specialties.
Systematic reviews of the effects of several mindfulness - based techniques
provide strong evidence of effectiveness.
Consequently, the aim of this
systematic review is to identify, critically appraise and
provide guidance on the selection of preference - based instruments for measuring care - related outcomes in palliative care economic evaluations.
These are hallmarks of PR, and there are now World Health Organization guiding principles specific to indigenous peoples, 7 along with guidelines, 11,12 joint statements,13 - 15 and a
systematic review, 1 to influence PR design and complement guidelines for ethical research involving Indigenous Australians.16 The WHO principles for PR reflect experience in various countries and
provide guidance on the joint management of research by research institutions and indigenous peoples.
Effectiveness of training interventions
provided for mental health workers in primary care settings: a mixed methods
systematic review
Rather than
provide a
systematic and exhaustive
review of the literature, the goal is to identify promising work and themes across studies that might lead to similar positive outcomes in future work.
On balance,
systematic reviews have suggested that people can recall past experiences with sufficient accuracy to
provide valuable information [65], [66] and that such data are especially useful when prospective data are not available [67], as in the current case.