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"Might" or "suggest"? No wording approach was clearly superior in conveying the strength of recommendation

scientific article published on 09 November 2011

2015 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

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2015 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

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2019 sickle cell disease guidelines by the American Society of Hematology: methodology, challenges, and innovations

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

A Reporting Tool for Practice Guidelines in Health Care: The RIGHT Statement

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

A common framework of steps and criteria for prioritizing topics for evidence syntheses: a systematic review

scientific article published on 14 December 2019

A comparison of narrative and table formats for presenting hypothetical health states to patients with gastrointestinal or pulmonary disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

A curriculum on care for people with disabilities: effects on medical student self-reported attitudes and comfort level

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A curriculum to teach medical students to care for people with disabilities: development and initial implementation

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A decision aid for COPD patients considering inhaled steroid therapy: development and before and after pilot testing

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A framework for identifying and mitigating the equity harms of COVID-19 policy interventions

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

A guidance was developed to identify participants with missing outcome data in randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 9 July 2019

A guide for health professionals to interpret and use recommendations in guidelines developed with the GRADE approach

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A methodological survey of the analysis, reporting and interpretation of Absolute Risk ReductiOn in systematic revieWs (ARROW): a study protocol

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

A practical guide for using a survey about attitudes and behaviours to inform health care decisions

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

A reporting tool for practice guidelines in health care: the RIGHT statement

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

A risk of bias instrument for non-randomized studies of exposures: A users' guide to its application in the context of GRADE.

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A survey of internal medicine residents and faculty about the duration of attendings' inpatient rotations

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A tool for self-assessment of communication skills and professionalism in residents

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A very low number of national adaptations of the World Health Organization guidelines for HIV and tuberculosis reported their processes

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Adaptation of the 2015 American College of Rheumatology treatment guideline for rheumatoid arthritis for the Eastern Mediterranean Region: an exemplar of the GRADE Adolopment

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Adaptation of trustworthy guidelines developed using the GRADE methodology: a novel five-step process

scientific article published on September 2014

Addressing continuous data for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers

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Addressing continuous data measured with different instruments for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers

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Addressing dichotomous data for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers

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Agreements between Industry and Academia on Publication Rights: A Retrospective Study of Protocols and Publications of Randomized Clinical Trials.

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

All that glitters isn't gold: a survey on acknowledgment of limitations in biomedical studies

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American College of Rheumatology/Spondylitis Association of America/Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network 2015 Recommendations for the Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis and Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis

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American College of Rheumatology/Spondylitis Association of America/Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network 2015 Recommendations for the Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis and Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis

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An educational game for teaching clinical practice guidelines to Internal Medicine residents: development, feasibility and acceptability

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An emigration versus a globalization perspective of the Lebanese physician workforce: a qualitative study

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An instrument to assess quality of life in relation to nutrition: item generation, item reduction and initial validation

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Anterior cervical discectomy with arthroplasty versus arthrodesis for single-level cervical spondylosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Anticoagulation for patients with cancer and central venous catheters

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Anticoagulation for patients with cancer and central venous catheters

scientific article (publication date: 16 February 2011)

Anticoagulation for people with cancer and central venous catheters

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Anticoagulation for people with cancer and central venous catheters

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Anticoagulation for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in people with cancer

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

scientific article (published 2014-06-19)

Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

scientific article (publication date: 16 February 2011)

Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

scientific article (published 2011-04-13)

Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

scientific article (publication date: 15 June 2011)

Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

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Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a systematic review

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Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in people with cancer.

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Anticoagulation for the long term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

scientific article (published 2008-04-23)

Anticoagulation for the long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

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Anticoagulation for the long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

scientific article (published 2011-06-15)

Anticoagulation for the long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism in people with cancer

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Anticoagulation for thrombosis prophylaxis in cancer patients with central venous catheters

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Anticoagulation in patients with cancer: an overview of reviews

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Antiphospholipid antibodies and the risk of recurrence after a first episode of venous thromboembolism: a systematic review ⬇️

scientific article published on June 12, 2013

Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report

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Antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy for ischemic stroke: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

scientific article published on February 2012

Antithrombotic therapy for VTE disease: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Antithrombotic therapy in peripheral artery disease: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

scientific article published on February 2012

Antivirals for influenza: a summary of a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

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Antivirals for treatment of influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

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Applying new strategies for the national adaptation, updating, and dissemination of trustworthy guidelines: results from the Norwegian adaptation of the Antithrombotic Therapy and the Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th Ed: American College of Chest Physi

scientific article published in September 2014

Approach to outcome measurement in the prevention of thrombosis in surgical and medical patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

scientific article published on February 2012

Assessing and presenting summaries of evidence in Cochrane Reviews

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Assessing concordance of financial conflicts of interest disclosures with payments' databases: a systematic survey of the health literature

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Assessing the process and outcome of the development of practice guidelines and recommendations: PANELVIEW instrument development

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Assessment of faculty productivity in academic departments of medicine in the United States: a national survey

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Association between change in high density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality: systematic review and meta-regression analysis

scientific article published on 16 February 2009

Association between low vitamin D levels and the diagnosis of asthma in children: a systematic review of cohort studies

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Association between perioperative low-molecular-weight heparin vs unfractionated heparin and clinical outcomes in patients with cancer undergoing surgery

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Association between physicians' interaction with pharmaceutical companies and their clinical practices: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: 2017)

Attitudes of healthcare students and professionals toward patients with physical disability: a systematic review

scientific article published on June 2012

Authors of clinical trials reported individual and financial conflicts of interest more frequently than institutional and nonfinancial ones: a methodological survey

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Authors of clinical trials seldom reported details when declaring their individual and institutional financial conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Authors seldom report the most patient-important outcomes and absolute effect measures in systematic review abstracts

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Authorship in reports of clinical practice guidelines: A systematic cross-sectional analysis

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Awareness and attitudes of the Lebanese population with regard to physician-pharmaceutical company interaction: a survey study.

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Barriers and facilitators to implementation, uptake and sustainability of community-based health insurance schemes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Biofeedback dialysis for hypotension and hypervolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Blinding of outcomes in trials of orthopaedic trauma: an opportunity to enhance the validity of clinical trials

scientific article published on May 2008

Brief report: Internal medicine residents', attendings', and nurses' perceptions of the night float system

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Building Responsive Health Systems to Help Communities Affected by Migration: An International Delphi Consensus

scientific article published on 03 February 2017

CMV and BKPyV Infections in Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving an mTOR Inhibitor-Based Regimen Versus a CNI-Based Regimen: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Can contraindications compromise evidence-based, patient-centered clinical practice?

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors in patients with respiratory failure and metabolic alkalosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Characteristics of funding of clinical trials: cross-sectional survey and proposed guidance

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Characterizing the interaction between physicians, pharmacists and pharmaceutical representatives in a middle-income country: A qualitative study

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Cochrane corner: implantable cardiac defibrillators for patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Comparison between the standard and a new alternative format of the Summary-of-Findings tables in Cochrane review users: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Completion and Publication Rates of Randomized Controlled Trials in Surgery: An Empirical Study

scientific article published on July 2015

Compression Stockings for Preventing the Postthrombotic Syndrome in Patients with Deep Vein Thrombosis

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Conclusions from surveys may not consider important biases: a systematic survey of surveys

scientific article published on 15 February 2020

Conflicts of interest disclosure forms and management in critical care clinical practice guidelines

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Consensus statement on assessment of waterpipe smoking in epidemiological studies

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Considering health equity when moving from evidence-based guideline recommendations to implementation: a case study from an upper-middle income country on the GRADE approach

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Considering health equity when moving from evidence-based guideline recommendations to implementation: a case study from an uppermiddle income country on the GRADE approach

scientific article published in December 2017

Considering intellectual, in addition to financial, conflicts of interest proved important in a clinical practice guideline: a descriptive study

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Coordinating the Provision of Health Services in Humanitarian Crises: a Systematic Review of Suggested Models

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Correction to: Adaptation of the 2015 American College of Rheumatology treatment guideline for rheumatoid arthritis for the Eastern Mediterranean Region: an exemplar of the GRADE Adolopment

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Correction to: Recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis in the Eastern Mediterranean region: an adolopment of the 2015 American College of Rheumatology guidelines

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Correction: A methodological survey of the analysis, reporting and interpretation of Absolute Risk ReductiOn in systematic revieWs (ARROW): a study protocol.

scientific article published on 17 July 2014

Creating clinical practice guidelines we can trust, use, and share: a new era is imminent

scientific article published on August 2013

Credibility of claims of subgroup effects in randomised controlled trials: systematic review

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Current experience with applying the GRADE approach to public health interventions: an empirical study

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Curricula for teaching the content of clinical practice guidelines to family medicine and internal medicine residents in the US: a survey study

scientific article published on 21 September 2009

Deciding what type of evidence and outcomes to include in guidelines: article 5 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report

scientific article published on December 2012

Decision aids that really promote shared decision making: the pace quickens

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Developing Evidence to Decision Frameworks and an Interactive Evidence to Decision Tool for Making and Using Decisions and Recommendations in Health Care

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Developing methodology for the creation of clinical practice guidelines for rare diseases: A report from RARE-Bestpractices.

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Developing trustworthy recommendations as part of an urgent response (1-2 weeks): a GRADE concept paper GRADE Rapid Guidelines project group

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Development of a Novel, Multilayered Presentation Format for Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Development of an Instrument to Measure Medical Students' Attitudes Toward People with Disabilities ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Development of rapid guidelines: 3. GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist extension for rapid recommendations.

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Did the post war repatriation of Lebanese physicians drive recent Lebanese medical graduates to emigrate? An observational study

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Discussing study limitations in reports of biomedical studies- the need for more transparency

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

Do clinicians understand the size of treatment effects? A randomized survey across 8 countries

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Do clinicians want recommendations? A multicenter study comparing evidence summaries with and without GRADE recommendations

scientific article published on 09 March 2018

EBM user and practitioner models for graduate medical education: what do residents prefer?

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Educational Games for Health Professionals

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Educational games for health professionals

scientific article (published 2013-03-28)

Educational games for health professionals

scientific article (published 2013-01-31)

Educational games for health professionals

scientific article (published 2008-01-23)

Educational games in geriatric medicine education: a systematic review

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Effect of Lowering the Dialysate Temperature in Chronic Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Effectiveness of Mechanisms and Models of Coordination between Organizations, Agencies and Bodies Providing or Financing Health Services in Humanitarian Crises: A Systematic Review

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Effects of assessing the productivity of faculty in academic medical centres: a systematic review

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Effects of water-pipe smoking on lung function: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Electronic mail was not better than postal mail for surveying residents and faculty.

scientific article published in April 2005

Electronic nicotine delivery systems and/or electronic non-nicotine delivery systems for tobacco smoking cessation or reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Evaluating patient values and preferences for thromboprophylaxis decision making during pregnancy: a study protocol

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Evaluating prophylactic heparin in ambulatory patients with solid tumours: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Evidence in the learning organization

scientific article published on 26 March 2009

Evidence synthesis 2.0: when systematic, scoping, rapid, living, and overviews of reviews come together

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Executive summary: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Experiences with a novel policy for managing conflicts of interest of guideline developers: a descriptive qualitative study

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Extended perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer

scientific article published in 2008

Extended perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer. A systematic review

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Extending the RIGHT statement for reporting adapted practice guidelines in healthcare: the RIGHT-Ad@pt Checklist protocol

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Extent of physician-pharmaceutical industry interactions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Features of the waterpipe tobacco industry: A qualitative study of the third International Hookah Fair

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Financial characteristics and satisfaction of physicians practicing in Lebanon: a survey study.

scientific article published on July 2012

Financial relationships between patient and consumer representatives and the health industry: A systematic review

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

Formatting modifications in GRADE evidence profiles improved guideline panelists comprehension and accessibility to information. A randomized trial

scientific article published on 05 May 2012

Frameworks for adaptation of health guidelines: a methodological survey

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Framing of health information messages

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Free versus Fixed Combination Antihypertensive Therapy for Essential Arterial Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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GRADE Equity Guidelines 2: Considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: Equity extension of the Guideline Development Checklist

scientific article published on 9 May 2017

GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks for adoption, adaptation, and de novo development of trustworthy recommendations: GRADE-ADOLOPMENT.

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 1: Introduction

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GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 1: Introduction

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 2: Clinical practice guidelines

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 2: Clinical practice guidelines

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

GRADE Guidelines 30: The GRADE Approach to Assessing the Certainty of Modelled Evidence - an Overview in the Context of Health Decision-making

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

GRADE Guidelines: 16. GRADE evidence to decision frameworks for tests in clinical practice and public health

scientific article published on 27 February 2016

GRADE Guidelines: 18. How ROBINS-I and other tools to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies should be used to rate the certainty of a body of evidence.

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

GRADE Guidelines: 19. Assessing the certainty of evidence describing the relative importance of outcomes or values and preferences -- Risk of bias and indirectness

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

GRADE equity guidelines 1: considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: introduction and rationale

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

GRADE equity guidelines 3: considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: rating the certainty of synthesized evidence

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

GRADE equity guidelines 4: guidance on how to assess and address health equity within the evidence to decision process.

scientific article published on 9 August 2017

GRADE guidelines 17: assessing the risk of bias associated with missing participant outcome data in a body of evidence

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GRADE guidelines 26: informative statements to communicate the findings of systematic reviews of interventions

scientific article published on 09 November 2019

GRADE guidelines 27: how to calculate absolute effects for time-to-event outcomes in summary of findings tables and Evidence Profiles

scientific article published on 09 November 2019

GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

scientific article (publication date: April 2011)

GRADE guidelines: 11. Making an overall rating of confidence in effect estimates for a single outcome and for all outcomes

scientific article published on 27 April 2012

GRADE guidelines: 13. Preparing summary of findings tables and evidence profiles-continuous outcomes

scientific article published on 30 October 2012

GRADE guidelines: 14. Going from evidence to recommendations: the significance and presentation of recommendations

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

GRADE guidelines: 20. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences—inconsistency, imprecision, and other domains

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GRADE guidelines: 21 part 1. Study design, risk of bias, and indirectness in rating the certainty across a body of evidence for test accuracy

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

GRADE guidelines: 21 part 2. Test accuracy: inconsistency, imprecision, publication bias, and other domains for rating the certainty of evidence and presenting it in evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

GRADE guidelines: 22. The GRADE approach for tests and strategies-from test accuracy to patient-important outcomes and recommendations.

scientific article published on 7 February 2019

GRADE guidelines: 29. Rating the certainty in time-to-event outcomes - Study limitations due to censoring of participants with missing data in intervention studies

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence--inconsistency

scientific article published on 31 July 2011

GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence--indirectness

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

GRADE guidelines: 9. Rating up the quality of evidence

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

Gaining Insights Into the Waterpipe Tobacco Industry: Participant Observation and a Cross-Sectional Survey of Products at a Trade Exhibition

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Goodbye, number needed to treat?

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Graduates of Lebanese medical schools in the United States: an observational study of international migration of physicians

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Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence

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Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain

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Guideline funding and conflicts of interest: article 4 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report

scientific article published on December 2012

Guideline panels should not GRADE good practice statements

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Guideline panels should seldom make good practice statements: guidance from the GRADE Working Group

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Guidelines 2.0: systematic development of a comprehensive checklist for a successful guideline enterprise

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Guidelines on vitamin D replacement in bariatric surgery: Identification and systematic appraisal

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Handling trial participants with missing outcome data when conducting a meta-analysis: a systematic survey of proposed approaches

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Health Care Workers in the setting of the "Arab Spring": a scoping review for the Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria

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Health care workers in conflict and post-conflict settings: Systematic mapping of the evidence

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Health-related articles on Syria before and after the start of armed conflict: a scoping review for The Lancet-American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

How should the impact of different presentations of treatment effects on patient choice be evaluated? A pilot randomized trial

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How to treat ankylosing spondylitis and nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Key practical messages from the 2015 American College of Rheumatology recommendations

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Human‐Centered Design: Developing Evidence to Decision Frameworks and an Interactive Evidence to Decision Tool for Making and Using Decisions and Recommendations in Health Care (Global Challenges 9/2018)

Identifying target audiences: who are the guidelines for? : article 1 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report

scientific article published on December 2012

Impact of missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes on pooled effect estimates in systematic reviews: a protocol for a methodological study

scientific article

Implantable cardiac defibrillators for patients with non‐ischaemic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Implantable cardiac defibrillators for people with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 08 December 2018

Improving GRADE evidence tables part 1: a randomized trial shows improved understanding of content in summary of findings tables with a new format

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Improving GRADE evidence tables part 3: detailed guidance for explanatory footnotes supports creating and understanding GRADE certainty in the evidence judgments

scientific article published on 12 January 2016

In intermediate-risk acute PE, tenecteplase plus heparin reduced hemodynamic decompensation but increased stroke

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Inconsistent definitions for intention-to-treat in relation to missing outcome data: systematic review of the methods literature

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Initiation and continuation of randomized trials after the publication of a trial stopped early for benefit asking the same study question: STOPIT-3 study design

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Integrating an evidence-based medicine rotation into an internal medicine residency program

scientific article published in September 2004

Integrating values and consumer involvement in guidelines with the patient at the center: article 8 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report

scientific article published on December 2012

Interpreting the results of patient reported outcome measures in clinical trials: the clinician's perspective

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Interventions for waterpipe tobacco smoking prevention and cessation: a systematic review

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Introduction to the ninth edition: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

scientific article published on February 2012

Key health themes and reporting of numerical cigarette-waterpipe equivalence in online news articles reporting on waterpipe tobacco smoking: a content analysis

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Knowledge, Beliefs and Attitudes of Patients and the General Public towards the Interactions of Physicians with the Pharmaceutical and the Device Industry: A Systematic Review

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Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values, preferences, and feasibility in relation to the use of injection safety devices in healthcare settings: a systematic review

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Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of physicians in low and middle-income countries regarding interacting with pharmaceutical companies: a systematic review

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LOST to follow-up Information in Trials (LOST-IT): a protocol on the potential impact

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Learning from failure--rationale and design for a study about discontinuation of randomized trials (DISCO study).

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Legislative, educational, policy and other interventions targeting physicians' interaction with pharmaceutical companies: a systematic review

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Living systematic reviews: 4. Living guideline recommendations

scientific article published in September 2017

Long-acting beta2-agonists for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: serious adverse events

scholarly article published 16 July 2008

Low anonymous voting compliance with the novel policy for managing conflicts of interest implemented in the 9th version of the American College of Chest Physicians antithrombotic guidelines

scientific article published in October 2013

Low molecular weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer

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Low molecular weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer

scientific article (publication date: 9 November 2011)

Low-molecular-weight heparin vs unfractionated heparin for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Low-molecular-weight heparins are superior to vitamin K antagonists for the long term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a cochrane systematic review

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Male circumcision for prevention of homosexual acquisition of HIV in men

scientific article (published 2011-06-15)

Meta-Analyses Proved Inconsistent in How Missing Data Were Handled Across Their Included Primary Trials: A Methodological Survey

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials on First Line and Adjunctive Levetiracetam ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Methodological survey of designed uneven randomization trials (DU-RANDOM): a protocol

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

Methodologists and context experts disagreed regarding managing conflicts of interest of clinical practice guidelines panels

scientific article published on May 5, 2012

Methodology for the American Society of Hematology VTE guidelines: current best practice, innovations, and experiences

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Methodology for the development of antithrombotic therapy and prevention of thrombosis guidelines: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

scientific article published on February 2012

Methods of conduct and reporting of living systematic reviews: a protocol for a living methodological survey.

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Methods used in adaptation of health-related guidelines: A systematic survey

scientific article published in December 2017

Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy guided by intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring (IOPTH) and preoperative imaging versus bilateral neck exploration for primary hyperparathyroidism in adults

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Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy guided by intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring (IOPTH) and preoperative imaging versus bilateral neck exploration for primary hyperparathyroidism in adults

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Motives, beliefs and attitudes towards waterpipe tobacco smoking: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 02 July 2013

Moving from evidence to developing recommendations in guidelines: article 11 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report

scientific article published on December 2012

Multilayered and digitally structured presentation formats of trustworthy recommendations: a combined survey and randomised trial

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Negative versus positive framing of health information

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Non-randomized studies as a source of complementary, sequential or replacement evidence for randomized controlled trials in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions

scientific article published on March 2013

NorthStar, a support tool for the design and evaluation of quality improvement interventions in healthcare

scientific article published on 26 June 2007

Obtaining and managing data sets for individual participant data meta-analysis: scoping review and practical guide

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Open Synthesis and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Oral anticoagulation for prolonging survival in patients with cancer

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Oral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation

scientific article (published 2014-06-04)

Oral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation

scientific article (published 2014-07-01)

Oral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation

scientific article

Oral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation

scientific article (publication date: 15 June 2011)

Oral anticoagulation in people with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation.

scientific article published on 29 December 2017

Oral direct Factor Xa inhibitors versus low-molecular-weight heparin to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

Over half of the WHO guidelines published from 2014 to 2019 explicitly considered health equity issues: A cross sectional survey

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Parenteral anticoagulation for prolonging survival in patients with cancer who have no other indication for anticoagulation

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Parenteral anticoagulation in ambulatory patients with cancer

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Parenteral anticoagulation in ambulatory patients with cancer.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Parenteral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation

scientific article (published 2011-01-19)

Parenteral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation

scientific article

Parenteral anticoagulation may prolong the survival of patients with limited small cell lung cancer: a Cochrane systematic review

scientific article published on 15 May 2008

Patient values and preferences in decision making for antithrombotic therapy: a systematic review: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

scientific article

Periodic presumptive treatment of curable sexually transmitted infections among sex workers: a systematic review

scientific article published on February 2012

Pharmacists' views and reported practices in relation to a new generic drug substitution policy in Lebanon: a mixed methods study

scientific article

Pharmacologic and compression therapies for postthrombotic syndrome: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

scientific article

Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Post-graduation migration intentions of students of Lebanese medical schools: a survey study

scientific article

Potential impact of missing outcome data on treatment effects in systematic reviews: imputation study

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Potential impact on estimated treatment effects of information lost to follow-up in randomised controlled trials (LOST-IT): systematic review

scientific article published on 18 May 2012

Potentially missing data was considerably more frequent than definitely missing data in randomized controlled trials: A methodological survey

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Practice guidelines on migrants' health: assessment of their quality and reporting

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Pregnancy outcomes in women with chronic kidney disease: a systematic review

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Premature Discontinuation of Pediatric Randomized Controlled Trials: A Retrospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Premature Discontinuation of Randomized Trials in Critical and Emergency Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Prevalence, characteristics, and publication of discontinued randomized trials

scientific article published on March 2014

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