List of works by Vivian Welch

'It is surely a great criticism of our profession...' The next 20 years of equity-focused systematic reviews

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

6.11 Clinical epidemiology

scholarly article published 1 January 2009

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

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

A meta-analysis of etidronate for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis

scientific article

A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

A province-wide survey on self-reported language proficiency and its influence in global health education

scientific article published on 01 July 2017

A research and development agenda for systematic reviews that ask complex questions about complex interventions

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

A scoping review identifies multiple emerging knowledge synthesis methods, but few studies operationalize the method.

scientific article

AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both

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Accessibility and Acceptability of Infectious Disease Interventions Among Migrants in the EU/EEA: A CERQual Systematic Review

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

Acupuncture and electroacupuncture for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

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Acupuncture for premenstrual syndrome

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Alendronate for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women

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American College of Rheumatology 2012 recommendations for the use of nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies in osteoarthritis of the hand, hip, and knee

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An equity lens can ensure an equity-oriented approach to agenda setting and priority setting of Cochrane Reviews

scientific article published on 09 March 2013

Applying an equity lens to interventions: using PROGRESS ensures consideration of socially stratifying factors to illuminate inequities in health.

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Assessing and comparing global health competencies in rehabilitation students

scientific article published on 07 December 2013

Assessing equity in systematic reviews: realising the recommendations of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health

scientific article published on 13 September 2010

Assessing evidence of interventions addressing inequity among migrant populations: a two-stage systematic review

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Assessing quality of sleep in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on September 2009

Assessing the complexity of interventions within systematic reviews: development, content and use of a new tool (iCAT_SR).

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Assessing the format and content of journal published and non-journal published rapid review reports: A comparative study

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Behavior Change Techniques Included in Reports of Social Media Interventions for Promoting Health Behaviors in Adults: Content Analysis Within a Systematic Review

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Better evidence about wicked issues in tackling health inequities

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

CONSORT-Equity 2017 extension and elaboration for better reporting of health equity in randomised trials

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Calcium supplementation on bone loss in postmenopausal women

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Calcium-channel blockers for Raynaud's phenomenon in systemic sclerosis

scientific article published on August 2001

Can Cochrane Reviews inform decisions to improve indigenous people's health?

scientific article

Changing patterns in reporting and sharing of review data in systematic reviews with meta-analysis of the effects of interventions: cross sectional meta-research study

Clinical practice guidelines for osteoarthritis

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

Complex interventions and their implications for systematic reviews: A pragmatic approach

scientific article published on 09 January 2015

Complex interventions and their implications for systematic reviews: a pragmatic approach

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

Considerations and guidance in designing equity-relevant clinical trials

scientific article published on 5 June 2017

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

scientific article

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

Continuation or deprescribing of proton pump inhibitors: A consult patient decision aid

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Continuous passive motion following total knee arthroplasty

scientific article published on 22 April 2003

Correction: Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement

scientific article published on 9 August 2016

Cost effectiveness of nasal calcitonin in postmenopausal women: use of Cochrane Collaboration methods for meta-analysis within economic evaluation

scientific article published in January 2001

Critical EPICOT items were absent in Cochrane human immunodeficiency virus systematic reviews: a bibliometric analysis.

scientific article

Damned if you do, damned if you don't: subgroup analysis and equity

scientific article published on 6 June 2011

Deep transverse friction massage for treating lateral elbow or lateral knee tendinitis

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Deprescribing antihyperglycemic agents in older persons: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline

scientific article published in November 2017

Deprescribing antipsychotics for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and insomnia: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline

scientific article published in January 2018

Deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline.

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Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline

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Deprescribing versus continuation of chronic proton pump inhibitor use in adults

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Deprescribing versus continuation of chronic proton pump inhibitor use in adults.

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Development and evaluation of 'briefing notes' as a novel knowledge translation tool to aid the implementation of sex/gender analysis in systematic reviews: a pilot study

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Development and Αlpha-testing of a Stepped Decision Aid for Patients Considering Nonsurgical Options for Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis Management

scientific article published on September 2016

Development of a Draft Core Set of Domains for Measuring Shared Decision Making in Osteoarthritis: An OMERACT Working Group on Shared Decision Making

scientific article

Deworming children for soil-transmitted helminths in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and individual participant data network meta-analysis

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Deworming in non-pregnant adolescent girls and adult women: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Do evidence summaries increase policy-makers' use of evidence from systematic reviews: A systematic review protocol

scientific article

Do quality improvement initiatives for diabetes care address social inequities? Secondary analysis of a systematic review.

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Documenting research with transgender and gender diverse people: protocol for an evidence map and thematic analysis.

scientific article

Does consideration and assessment of effects on health equity affect the conclusions of systematic reviews? A methodology study

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Déprescription des antihyperglycémiants chez les personnes âgées: Guide de pratique clinique fondé sur les données probantes

scientific article published in November 2017

Déprescription des antipsychotiques pour les symptômes comportementaux et psychologiques de la démence et l’insomnie: Guide de pratique clinique fondé sur des données probantes.

scientific article published in January 2018

Education of health professionals for preventing diabetic foot ulceration

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Education of health professionals for preventing diabetic foot ulceration

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Effect of rapid HIV testing on HIV incidence and services in populations at high risk for HIV exposure: an equity-focused systematic review

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Effectiveness of stop smoking interventions among adults: protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and an updated systematic review

scientific article published on 19 January 2019

Effects of guaranteed basic income interventions on poverty‐related outcomes in high‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

scientific article published in 2024

Electronic retrieval of health information by healthcare providers to improve practice and patient care

scientific article

Engaging knowledge users in development of the CONSORT-Equity 2017 reporting guideline: a qualitative study using in-depth interviews

Ensuring Prevention Science Research is Synthesis-Ready for Immediate and Lasting Scientific Impact

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

Ensuring relevance for Cochrane reviews: evaluating processes and methods for prioritizing topics for Cochrane reviews

scientific article published on 20 April 2012

Equity issues were not fully addressed in Cochrane human immunodeficiency virus systematic reviews.

scientific article

Equity-oriented toolkit for health technology assessment and knowledge translation: application to scaling up of training and education for health workers

scientific article published on 05 August 2009

Establishing need and population priorities to improve the health of homeless and vulnerably housed women, youth, and men: A Delphi consensus study

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Ethics and equity in research priority-setting: stakeholder engagement and the needs of disadvantaged groups

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Evaluation of evidence-based literature and formulation of recommendations for the clinical preventive guidelines for immigrants and refugees in Canada

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Evidence in agenda setting: new directions for the Cochrane Collaboration

scientific article published on 09 January 2013

Evidence-based clinical guidelines for immigrants and refugees

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Evidence-based medicine and the Cochrane Collaboration

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Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E 2012): explanation and elaboration

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Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E 2012): explanation and elaboration

scholarly article by Vivian Welch et al published 29 January 2016 in Journal of Development Effectiveness

Extending the PRISMA statement to equity-focused systematic reviews (PRISMA-E 2012): explanation and elaboration.

scientific article published on 05 September 2015

Feeding interventions for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged children aged three months to five years

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Fluoride for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporotic fractures: a meta-analysis.

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Food supplementation for improving the physical and psychosocial health of socio-economically disadvantaged children aged three months to five years

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Funding agencies in low- and middle-income countries: support for knowledge translation

scientific article published on July 2008

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 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

Global burden of skin disease as reflected in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

scientific article published on September 2014

Glucosamine therapy for treating osteoarthritis

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Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines part 3 of 3. The GRADE approach to developing recommendations.

scientific article published on 17 January 2011

Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER Statement

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Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement

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Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement.

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Health Equity Considerations for Developing and Reporting Patient-reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials: A Report from the OMERACT Equity Special Interest Group

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Health equity: evidence synthesis and knowledge translation methods

scientific article published on 22 June 2013

Home-based virtual reality training after discharge from hospital-based stroke rehabilitation: a parallel randomized feasibility trial.

scientific article published on 7 June 2019

How do Ontario family medicine residents perform on global health competencies? A multi-institutional survey

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How effects on health equity are assessed in systematic reviews of interventions

scientific article (publication date: 8 December 2010)

How effects on health equity are assessed in systematic reviews of interventions

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How health equity is reported and analyzed in randomized trials

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Human immunodeficiency virus testing and psychosocial outcomes: a scoping review protocol

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

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

Including health equity considerations in development of instruments for rheumatology research: an introduction to a novel OMERACT paradigm

scientific article

Including migrant populations in health impact assessments

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Incorporating equity issues into the development of Colombian clinical practice guidelines: suggestions for the GRADE approach

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Influencing health equity: role of the effective consumer scale in measuring skills and abilities in a middle income country

scientific article published on August 2011

Integrating prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programs to improve uptake: a systematic review

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Intensity of exercise for the treatment of osteoarthritis

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Intensity of exercise for the treatment of osteoarthritis

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2003)

Interactive social media interventions for health behaviour change, health outcomes, and health equity in the adult population

scholarly article by Vivian Welch et al published 2 February 2018 in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Interventions to improve access to cataract surgical services and their impact on equity in low- and middle-income countries

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Interventions to improve access to cataract surgical services and their impact on equity in low- and middle-income countries.

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Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes

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Intraarticular corticosteroid for treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee

scientific article (publication date: 19 April 2006)

Introducing a series of methodological articles on considering complexity in systematic reviews of interventions

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Is health equity considered in systematic reviews of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group?

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Knowledge translation: An opportunity to reduce global health inequalities

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Lack of Evidence to Guide Deprescribing of Antihyperglycemics: A Systematic Review.

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Low level laser therapy (Classes I, II and III) for treating rheumatoid arthritis

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Low level laser therapy (Classes III) for treating osteoarthritis

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Managed alcohol as a harm reduction intervention for alcohol addiction in populations at high risk for substance abuse

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Mass deworming to improve developmental health and wellbeing of children in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

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Methodological Rigor in Preclinical Cardiovascular Studies: Targets to Enhance Reproducibility and Promote Research Translation

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Methodology for Developing Deprescribing Guidelines: Using Evidence and GRADE to Guide Recommendations for Deprescribing

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OMERACT 6 Economics Working Group report: a proposal for a reference case for economic evaluation in rheumatoid arthritis

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Open Availability of Patient Medical Photographs in Google Images Search Results: Cross-Sectional Study of Transgender Research.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Oral or transdermal opioids for osteoarthritis of the knee or hip

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Oral or transdermal opioids for osteoarthritis of the knee or hip

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2009)

Oral or transdermal opioids for osteoarthritis of the knee or hip

scientific article (publication date: 16 July 2008)

Ottawa Panel evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for patient education in the management of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

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Ottawa Panel evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the management of osteoarthritis in adults who are obese or overweight

scientific article published on 14 April 2011

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-Equity 2012 extension: reporting guidelines for systematic reviews with a focus on health equity

scientific article

Patient Values and Preferences Surrounding Proton Pump Inhibitor Use: A Scoping Review

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Patient-centered rapid reviews will drive local decision making: commentary on Hartling et al

scientific article published on 12 August 2015

Peer support strategies for improving the health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases

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Peer support strategies for improving the health and well‐being of individuals with chronic diseases

Peer-based interventions for reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected women

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Peer‐based interventions for reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV‐infected women

Population characteristics as important contextual factors in rheumatological trials: an exploratory meta-epidemiological study from an OMERACT Working Group

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Potential harms associated with routine collection of patient sociodemographic information: A rapid review

Practical Guidance for Involving Stakeholders in Health Research

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Prevention and assessment of infectious diseases among children and adult migrants arriving to the European Union/European Economic Association: a protocol for a suite of systematic reviews for public health and health systems

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Prevention and self-management interventions are top priorities for osteoarthritis systematic reviews

scientific article published on 18 September 2012

Prioritization of systematic reviews leads prioritization of research gaps and needs

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Progress on incorporating the patient perspective in outcome assessment in rheumatology and the emergence of life impact measures at OMERACT 9.

scientific article published on September 2009

Protocol for the development of a CONSORT-equity guideline to improve reporting of health equity in randomized trials

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Protocol for the development of guidance for stakeholder engagement in health and healthcare guideline development and implementation

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Rapid testing for improving uptake of HIV/AIDS services in people with HIV infection

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Rapid testing for improving uptake of HIV/AIDS services in people with HIV infection

Reaching those most in need: a scoping review of interventions to improve health care quality for disadvantaged populations with osteoarthritis

scientific article published on January 2011

Realist review to understand the efficacy of culturally appropriate diabetes education programmes.

scientific article published on September 2013

Reliability and validity of a new survey to assess global health competencies of health professionals

scientific article published on 22 October 2012

Reporting guidelines for realist evaluations seek to improve clarity and transparency

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Reporting of health equity considerations in cluster and individually randomized trials

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Reporting of sex and gender in randomized controlled trials in Canada: a cross-sectional methods study.

scientific article published in September 2017

Responsiveness of the Effective Consumer Scale (EC-17).

scientific article published in September 2009

Risedronate for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women

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School feeding for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged students

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Setting priorities for knowledge translation of Cochrane reviews for health equity: Evidence for Equity

scientific article published on 2 December 2017

Sex Bias Is Increasingly Prevalent in Preclinical Cardiovascular Research: Implications for Translational Medicine and Health Equity for Women: A Systematic Assessment of Leading Cardiovascular Journals Over a 10-Year Period.

scientific article published in February 2017

Sex/gender reporting and analysis in Campbell and Cochrane systematic reviews: a cross-sectional methods study

scholarly article by Jennifer Petkovic et al published 2 August 2018 in Systematic Reviews

Should I continue taking my acid reflux medication? Design of a pilot before/after study evaluating a patient decision aid

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Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare services.

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Strategies to increase the ownership and use of insecticide treated bednets to prevent malaria

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Strategies to increase the ownership and use of insecticide-treated bednets to prevent malaria

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Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews: reporting guideline

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Systematic reviews need to consider applicability to disadvantaged populations: inter-rater agreement for a health equity plausibility algorithm

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Tai chi for treating rheumatoid arthritis

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Testing the PRISMA-Equity 2012 reporting guideline: the perspectives of systematic review authors

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The Future of the Campbell Collaboration

The OMERACT Initiative. Towards a reference approach to derive QALY for economic evaluations in rheumatology

scientific article published on September 2009

The effectiveness of evidence summaries on health policymakers and health system managers use of evidence from systematic reviews: a systematic review

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The equity-effectiveness loop as a tool for evaluating population health interventions

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

The uptake of integrated perinatal prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programs in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

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Therapeutic ultrasound for treating patellofemoral pain syndrome

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Thermotherapy for treating rheumatoid arthritis.

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Toward Ensuring Health Equity: Readability and Cultural Equivalence of OMERACT Patient-reported Outcome Measures

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Toward the Development of a Core Set of Outcome Domains to Assess Shared Decision-making Interventions in Rheumatology: Results from an OMERACT Delphi Survey and Consensus Meeting

scientific article published on August 2017

Tramadol for osteoarthritis

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in the hand

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Update of strategies to translate evidence from cochrane musculoskeletal group systematic reviews for use by various audiences

scientific article published on December 2013

Validating the "FACE" instrument using stakeholder perceptions of Feasibility, Acceptability, Cost and Equity in guideline implementation

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Virtual follow-up and care for patients with cardiac electronic implantable devices: protocol for a systematic review

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Viscosupplementation for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee

scientific article (publication date: 19 April 2006)

Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries

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Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries

scientific article (published 2013-12-09)

What is the most appropriate knowledge synthesis method to conduct a review? Protocol for a scoping review

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What types of interventions generate inequalities? Evidence from systematic reviews

scientific article published on 08 August 2012

When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

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