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Commentary on Kraiss et al.: Read the label – improving the applicability of systematic reviews by coding and analysis of intervention elements – Paul P. Glasziou & Nicholas A. Zwar

Lucia Marcello2023-12-01T13:13:43+11:00Health policy, Publications, Randomised Control Trial (RCT), Research|

While controlled trials establish an intervention's effectiveness, poor intervention descriptions can obscure substantial variation. To address this problem, Kraiss and colleagues extend the systematic review process with several additional steps. Although important for clinical and policymaking in addiction, the considerable effort needed will be a [...]

Time to reflect on open-label placebos and their value for clinical practice – Caitlin M. P. Jones et al.

Lucia Marcello2023-12-01T12:25:49+11:00Practitioners, Publications, Research, Research ethics, Treatment|

Basic science has found limited evidence from small studies of genuine positive effects on health and wellbeing outcomes, caused by positive treatment expectations, known as placebo effects.1 Naturally, many researchers and clinicians are curious about how to harness the placebo effect in clinical practice to improve [...]

Psychosocial outcomes and health service use after notifying women participating in population breast screening when they have dense breasts: a BreastScreen Queensland randomised controlled trial – Brooke Nickel, Nick Ormiston-Smith, Lisa Hammerton, et al.

Krista Verlis2023-10-23T15:10:51+11:00Breast cancer, Breast density, Publications, Randomised Control Trial (RCT), Research|

Robust evidence regarding the benefits and harms of notifying Australian women when routine breast screening identifies that they have dense breasts is needed for informing future mammography population screening practice and policy. Objectives of this RCT are to assess the psychosocial and health services use [...]

Considerable Uncertainty About the Burden of Gout in the Middle East and North Africa Region – Christopher G. Maher et al

Lucia Marcello2023-06-28T15:53:23+10:00Musculoskeletal, Pain, Publications, Research|

In a 2019 study, Amiri et al provide extensive burden of disease estimates for gout in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region sourced from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD). We would like to draw attention to the considerable uncertainty with these estimates and [...]

Ethical issues in big data: A qualitative study comparing responses in the health and higher education sectors – Annette Braunack-Mayer et al

Lucia Marcello2023-06-27T17:34:56+10:00Clinical guidelines, Health professionals, Publications, Research ethics, Risk|

The health and higher education sectors are increasingly using large administrative datasets for secondary purposes. Both sectors experience ethical challenges in the use of big data. This study identifies and explores how these two sectors are responding to these ethical challenges.

We extended the 2-week systematic review (2weekSR) methodology to larger, more complex systematic reviews: A case series – Anna Mae Scott, Paul Glasziou & Justin Clark

Lucia Marcello2023-04-14T13:51:37+10:00Publications, Research|

In 2019 we invented the 2-week systematic review (2weekSR) methodology, to complete full, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses-compliant systematic reviews in approximately 2 weeks. Since then we have continued to develop and adapt the 2weekSR methodology for completing larger and more complex systematic [...]

Practical, epistemic and normative implications of algorithmic bias in healthcare artificial intelligence: a qualitative study of multidisciplinary expert perspectives – Yves Saint James Aquino et al.

Lucia Marcello2023-03-01T14:04:41+11:00AI, Health system, Publications, Research|

There is a growing concern about artificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare that can disadvantage already under-represented and marginalised groups (eg, based on gender or race). Our objectives are to canvas the range of strategies stakeholders endorse in attempting to mitigate algorithmic bias, and to [...]

A meta-epidemiological study found that meta-analyses of the same trials may obtain drastically conflicting results – Nicolai Sandau et al.

Lucia Marcello2023-03-01T14:02:17+11:00Musculoskeletal, Publications, Research, Surgery, Treatment|

Objective: To assess how much protocols reduce methodological flexibility and variation of results in meta-analyses comparing operative with non-operative treatments for proximal humerus fractures.

Multiple Automated Health Literacy Assessments of Written Health Information: Development of the SHeLL (Sydney Health Literacy Lab) Health Literacy Editor v1 Multiple Automated Health Literacy Assessments of Written Health Information: Development of the SHeLL (Sydney Health Literacy Lab) Health Literacy Editor v1 – Julie Ayre et al.

Lucia Marcello2023-03-01T13:53:11+11:00Health literacy, Health policy, Public comprehension, Publications, Research, Treatment|

This paper outlines the development of the SHeLL (Sydney Health Literacy Lab) Health Literacy Editor, an automated tool to facilitate the implementation of health literacy guidelines for the production of easy-to-read written health information. Target users were any person or organization that develops consumer-facing education [...]

Has the degree of outcome reporting bias in surgical randomized trials changed? A meta-regression analysis – Andy Wang et. al

Lucia Marcello2023-01-27T11:30:18+11:00Clinical guidelines, Publications, Research, Research ethics, Surgery|

Outcome reporting bias in individual trials can compromise the validity of pooled estimates within systematic reviews. Recent strategies have attempted to address outcome reporting bias, which favours the full reporting of statistically significant outcomes over non-significant outcomes. We examined whether the association between full outcome [...]

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