invisalign therapy—a systematic review of lower quality evidence

... least some evidence ofinefficacy ▪ A score between -0.5 and +0.5 indicates a lack of evidence of efficacy because it is obtained in case of conflicting evi-dence or when a majority of poor-quality ... limited evidence of efficacy because it is obtained when a majority of medium-quality trials exist in the presence of a maximum of one positive high-quality trial or when a single positive high-quality ... the selection process of the systematic review Number of studies excluded because: administration was not oral of pharmacological interventions they did not report the result of a clinical trial...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... studies having low quality and relevance were included when studies of medium quality and relevance were not available Based on the overall quality and rele-vance of the studies reviewed, each conclusion ... 10% for ESI, and 3% for SRTS Seven of these studies were found to be of moderate and two of low quality and relevance, and the scientific evidence for validity of admission rates for patients in ... group of 11 751 patients receiving care for nonsur-gical disorders With a decrease of one step on the RAPS scale, 67% of the patients showed an increased risk of mortality within 30 days Level of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... systematic literature review exploring the importance of human resources in the quality of emergency obstetric care and thus in the reduction of maternal deaths Methods: A systematic search of ... perceptions of the quality of care This is reported in Tanzania in 2003, where the low rate of utilization of health centres providing EmOC is partially due to the poor perception of quality of care ... dimension is essentially made up of HR, in terms of technical quality, interpersonal quality and motivation with respect to EmOC The different categories of quality of care used to classify studies...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... (HTML) versions will be made available soon A systematic review of quality of life instruments in long-term breast cancer survivors Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012, 10:14 doi:10.1186/1477-7525-10-14 ... journal, go to Trang 2A systematic review of quality of life instruments in long-term breast cancer survivors 1 Division of Clinical, Social and Administrative Sciences Mylan School of Pharmacy 418F ... Survivors, Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors Scale, and Quality of Life Index-Cancer Version) evaluated all four domains (physical, psychological, social, and spiritual) of QoL A review of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... to those in housing of average or above average quality In a systematic review of 28 studies of supported housing for people with mental health problems, both the quality of the physical environment ... thesynthesis of the findings, allowing for greater exploration of a broad array of outcomes and experiences Aims We undertook a systematic review of the international erature published in peer reviewed ... findings of the litera-ture review The scope of the literature review was necessarily broadsince we wanted to include all core components of insti-tutional care Our review was carried out systematicallybut...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... up-to date evidence and findings of clinical studies on the effects of curcumin contributions in tumor cells sur-vival and metastasis using a systematic review approach Methods Systematic review ... size and number of patients, dur-ation of study, dosage of the drug and the result of the intervention (Table1) Article exclusion criteria Studies including review papers, systematic review, meta-analysis, ... Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 7 Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kermanshah University of Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2020, 23:12

... end-of-life care [ 29 ]. (ix) reported only patient ratings of quality of care and/ or patient characteristics associated with quality of care – i.e did not develop a measure with the aim of testing ... including quality of life [5-8], anxiety and depression [6-9] Patients’ perceptions of quality of care have also been associated with factors that directly affect the effectiveness and efficiency of ... existing reviews that have assessed the psychometric properties of measures developed to iden- tify patients’ experiences of care across a range of set- tings and diseases [25-28] Only one of these reviews...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 02:03

... only global systematic review of rigorous evidence of the effects of LHW interventions Trang 8in-2 Objective To review evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of LHW ventions ... results of the included studies were combined and an estimate of ef-fect obtained Results 48 studies met the review’s inclusion criteria There was evidence of moderate to high quality of the ... evidence was of low quality LHWs appear to be effective in improving TB treatment outcomes compared with institution-based directly observed therapy (RR 1.21, p = 0.05, evidence of moderate quality)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... need for rigorous systematic reviews of the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the poor Further, while many of the first institutions offering microfinance were not-for-profit local NGOs ... industry also makes a systematic review of the evidence of the impact of microfinance timely And in the latter half of 2010 the microfinance industry regulation of the microfinance industry through ... nature of the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the poor in SSA Given this paucity, the particular nature of MFIs in SSA, and the policy and practical need to understand the impact of microfinances...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... incomplete, the prime purpose of systematic reviews of literature is to provide a comprehensive display of all available evidence in a common format Systematic reviews have clear principles for ... Systematic reviews cannot improve the quality of published data, but can provide details of the characteristics and quality of studies All natural products vary in their composition of nutrients ... section of the paper, of the organic production methods of the crop or livestock product analysed (including the name of any certifying body) - specification of the cultivar of crop, or breed of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... Systematic Review of the Research Literature on the Use of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading and Spelling Carole J Torgerson * Greg Brooks ** Jill Hall * * University of York ** University of ...     A Systematic Review of the Research Literature on the Use of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading and Spelling  Carole J Torgerson * Greg Brooks ** Jill Hall * * University of York ** ... York ** University of Sheffield  The views expressed in this report are the authors’ and not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Education and Skills © The University of Sheffield 2006...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... little evidence from randomised controlled trials of the impacts of CHW programmes on child mortality in Africa Evidence from non-randomised controlled studies has not previously been reviewed systematically ... Several reviews of national CHW programmes in the late 1980s and early 1990s came to similar conclusions: quality of care from large-scale pro-grammes was poor, generally because of a lack of ongoing ... recognition of the importance of PHC It was the main subject of the 2008 WHO World Health Report, has the endorsement of WHO Director-General Margaret Chan [5], and was the topic of a themed issue of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Studies scoring lower then 50% (i.e <6 points) were considered to be of‘low quality’ Results Methodological quality of the studies The evaluation of the methodological quality of the 19 studies ... six studies con-tained adequate levels of evidence [9,10,13,17,19,20] None of the studies was considered to be of low quality according to our list of quality criteria General short-comings were ... A systematic review European Journal of Cancer 2005, 41(17):2613-2619. 28 Den Oudsten BL, Van Heck GL, De Vries J: Quality of life and related concepts in Parkinson ’s disease: a systematic review...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Review A systematic review of mobility instruments and their measurement properties ... maximise the sensitivity of this review Limitations of this review were that only manuscripts published in English were eligible for inclusion in this review and that some of the search terms for ... monitor mobility of older acute medical patients Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:44 Background The functional independence of older people...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... of data among non-B subtypes, no systematic review has been performed to date With this in mind, we conducted a systematic review (1996–2008) of all published studies performed on the basis of ... Trang 1Open Access Review Differences in resistance mutations among HIV-1 non-subtype B infections: a systematic review of evidence (1996–2008) Jorge L Martinez-Cajas†1, ... subtypes, yet a systematic review has not been executed With this in mind, we conducted a systematic review of all published and unpublished literature on all aspects of non-B sub-types, i.e, genetic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... However, most prior reviews have not considered smoke's interaction with the oviduct, an organ vital to reproduction The purpose of this paper is to review the functions of the oviduct, in particular ... infundibulum (A) Stereoscopic micrograph of an oocyte cumulus complex, colorized blue, being pulled off the surface of an infundibulum using forceps The matrix of the complex adheres to the infundibulum ... adult females In the group of young females, but not the adults, development of the embryos was also highly synchronous this was accompanied by increased rate of movement of eggs or microspheres...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... relationship quality is significantly higher than average after regressions have controlled for the demographic profiles of couples The last column of Table shows the effect of each way of meeting ... average reported mean relationship quality of 4.40 Couples who met online have a mean relationship quality of 4.48, which is indistinguishable from the overall average of 4.47 Couples who met in primary ... direct evidence, that the context of how couples meet was an important determinant of what kinds of couples would exist Hypothesis 3, based on prior literature, predicted that the intermediation of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... kept on the fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, feigning to run now and then He felt his body small and weak amid the throng of the players and ... protestants used to make fun of the litany of the Blessed Virgin TOWER OF IVORY, they used to say, HOUSE OF GOLD! How could a woman be a tower of ivory or a house of gold? Who was right then? ... long back of a tramhorse He shook the poker gravely and nodded his head at the fellow out of third of grammar Then Brother Michael went away and after a while the fellow out of third of grammar...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:20

... through their perceptions of child healthrelated quality of life outcomes Abbreviations HRQOL Health-Related Quality of Life PedsQL™ Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ PRO Patient-Reported Outcomes ... Eiser C: Use of quality of life measures in clinical trials Ambulatory Pediatrics 2004, 4:395-399 Matza LS, Swensen AR, Flood EM, Secnik K, Leidy NK: Assessment of health-related quality of life in ... health-related quality of life?: Results from a systematic review Quality of Life Research 2001, 10:347-357 Koot HM, Wallander JL, (eds.): Quality of life in child and adolescent illness: Concepts,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... English Proficiency Index (English First 2011: 5), a benchmark for the assessment of international English proficiency, ranked South Korea 13th and Japan 14th out of 44 countries on an English proficiency ... status of using ELF in CFL teaching to international students in multilingual contexts Literature review The monolingual approach has long been promoted by official policies in the field of foreign ... issued a new set of teaching syllabuses saying that CFL teachers should “…maximize the target language and diminish the use of [English] as a medium of instruction” (p.3) Proponents of the Chinese-only...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20