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A proper doctor knows everything

BMJ article

Acceptance of a systematic review as a thesis: survey of biomedical doctoral programs in Europe

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Adequacy of risk of bias assessment in surgical vs non-surgical trials in Cochrane reviews: a methodological study

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

Adequate and complete reporting of Cochrane risk of bias tool

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Adverse drug reactions of non-opioid and opioid analgesics reported to Croatian national authority from 2007 to 2014.

scientific article published in November 2017

Aging and a long-term diabetes mellitus increase expression of 1 α-hydroxylase and vitamin D receptors in the rat liver.

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

An overlooked source of physician-scientists.

scientific article published on December 2007

Analysis of perioperative pain management in vascular surgery indicates that practice does not adhere with guidelines: a retrospective cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Analysis of the elective curriculum in undergraduate medical education in Croatia.

scientific article published in April 2010

Anesthesia and perioperative pain management during cardiac electronic device implantation

scientific article

Assessment of reporting quality of abstracts of systematic reviews with meta-analysis using PRISMA-A and discordance in assessments between raters without prior experience

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Assessments of attrition bias in Cochrane systematic reviews are highly inconsistent and thus hindering trial comparability

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Association between metabolic syndrome and overactive bladder: a case-control study.

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Attenuation of pain-related behavior evoked by injury through blockade of neuropeptide Y Y2 receptor

scientific article published in May 2011

Attenuation of pain-related behaviour evoked by carrageenan injection through blockade of neuropeptide Y Y1 and Y2 receptors.

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Attitudes and concerns of undergraduate university health sciences students in Croatia regarding complete switch to e-learning during COVID-19 pandemic: a survey

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Attitudes of editors of core clinical journals about whether systematic reviews are original research: a mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Authors of trials from high-ranking anesthesiology journals were not willing to share raw data

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Authors' lack of awareness and use of core outcome set on postoperative pain in children is hindering comparative effectiveness research

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Awareness and use of evidence-based medicine databases and Cochrane Library among physicians in Croatia

scientific article

Awareness and use of evidence-based medicine information among patients in Croatia: a nation-wide cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on August 2017

Behavioral changes following experimentally-induced acute myocardial infarction in rats.

scientific article

Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in dorsal horn neurons in long-term diabetes.

scientific article

Can Authorship be Denied for Contract Work?

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Can Botulinum Toxin Help Prevent Migraine in Adults?: A Cochrane Review Summary With Commentary

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Can Physical Activity and Exercise Alleviate Chronic Pain in Adults?: A Cochrane Review Summary With Commentary

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Can acupuncture help adults suffering from neuropathic pain? - A Cochrane review summary with commentary

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Cauterisation versus fibrin glue for conjunctival autografting in primary pterygium surgery (CAGE CUP): study protocol of a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article

Celecoxib for osteoarthritis.

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Celecoxib for rheumatoid arthritis

scholarly article by Mahir Fidahic et al published 9 June 2017 in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Changes in cardiac innervation during maturation in long-term diabetes

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Changes in epidermal thickness and cutaneous innervation during maturation in long-term diabetes.

scientific article published on 8 December 2013

Changes in expression of special AT-rich sequence binding protein 1 and phosphatase and tensin homologue in kidneys of diabetic rats during ageing

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Changes in expression of special AT-rich sequence binding protein 1 and phosphatase and tensin homologue in kidneys of diabetic rats during ageing.

scientific article published in March 2018

Changes in neurofilament 200 and tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the cardiac innervation of diabetic rats during aging.

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Cochrane and its prospects in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Relying on Cochrane Croatia

scientific article published on May 2015

Cochrane plain language summaries are highly heterogeneous with low adherence to the standards

scientific article

Commercial dressings for burns versus sweet ancient remedy.

scientific article published in February 2009

Comparison of conference abstracts and full-text publications of randomized controlled trials presented at four consecutive World Congresses of Pain: Reporting quality and agreement of results

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Comparison of information sources used in Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews: A case study in the field of anesthesiology and pain

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Comparison of methodological quality rating of systematic reviews on neuropathic pain using AMSTAR and R-AMSTAR.

scientific article published on 8 May 2018

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 04 June 2021

Croatia founded a national body for ethics in science.

scientific article published on 11 April 2007

Cutaneous expression of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in rats with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Definition of a systematic review used in overviews of systematic reviews, meta-epidemiological studies and textbooks

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Definitions of blinding in randomised controlled trials of interventions published in high-impact anaesthesiology journals: a methodological study and survey of authors

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Delays in publishing systematic review registrations in PROSPERO are hindering transparency and may lead to research waste

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Demographics and motives of medical school applicants in Croatia.

scientific article published on October 2007

Dental fear and anxiety in older children: an association with parental dental anxiety and effective pain coping strategies

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

Depression of Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in dorsal root ganglion neurons after spinal nerve ligation

scientific article

Diabetes mellitus affects activity of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II alpha in rat trigeminal ganglia.

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

Effectiveness and efficacy of nutritional therapy: A systematic review following Cochrane methodology.

scientific article

Effects of high fat diet, ovariectomy, and physical activity on leptin receptor expression in rat brain and white fat tissue.

scientific article

Efficacy and Safety Outcome Domains and Outcome Measures in Systematic Reviews of Neuropathic Pain Conditions.

scientific article

Efficacy and Safety Outcomes in Systematic Reviews of Interventions for Postoperative Pain in Children: Comparison Against the Recommended Core Outcome Set.

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Efficacy and safety of oral and inhalation commercial beta-glucan products: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Efficacy and safety of pulsed radiofrequency as a method of dorsal root ganglia stimulation for treatment of non-neuropathic pain: a systematic review

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Efficacy of reminders for increasing volunteer engagement in translating Cochrane plain language summaries: a pilot randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Electrical Stimulation of Dorsal Root Ganglion in the Context of Pain: A Systematic Review of In Vitro and In Vivo Animal Model Studies

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Epidemiology and reporting characteristics of non-Cochrane updates of systematic reviews: A cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Epidemiology of ocular trauma in children requiring hospital admission: a 16-year retrospective cohort study

scientific article

Evidence synthesis and methodological research on evidence in medicine-Why it really is research and it really is medicine

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Expression of Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II and Pain-Related Behavior in Rat Models of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published in March 2013

Expression pattern of CYP24 in liver during ageing in long-term diabetes.

scientific article

Extracting data from figures with software was faster, with higher interrater reliability than manual extraction

scientific article

Factors associated with postoperative pain and analgesic consumption in ophthalmic surgery: a systematic review.

scientific article

Following Cochrane review protocols to completion 10 years later: a retrospective cohort study and author survey

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Gender and academic medicine: a good pipeline of women graduates is not advancing

scientific article

How to decide whether a systematic review is stable and not in need of updating: Analysis of Cochrane reviews

scientific article published on 05 September 2020

If there is only one author or only one database was searched, a study should not be called a systematic review

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Impact of extended course duration and stricter study organization on attrition and academic performance of medical students

scientific article published on April 2013

Importance of consistent outcomes in randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews about anesthesiology and pain

scientific article published on 14 June 2018

Improving completion rates of students in biomedical PhD programs: an interventional study.

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

In Cochrane reviews risk of bias assessments for allocation concealment were frequently not in line with Cochrane's Handbook guidance

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Increased phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene expression and steatosis during hepatitis C virus subgenome replication: role of nonstructural component 5A and CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein β.

scientific article

Increased vitamin D receptor expression in dorsal root ganglia neurons of diabetic rats

scientific article

Influence of a vertical subject on research in biomedicine and activities of The Cochrane Collaboration branch on medical students' knowledge and attitudes toward evidence-based medicine.

scientific article

Inhibition of cellular responses to insulin in a rat liver cell line. A role for PKC in insulin resistance.

scientific article

Interventions for Neuropathic Pain: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

scientific article published in August 2017

Interventions for postoperative pain in children: An overview of systematic reviews

scientific article

Intrathecal inhibition of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in diabetic neuropathy adversely affects pain-related behavior.

scientific article

Knowledge and attitudes towards evidence-based medicine of mentors in general practice can be influenced by using medical students as academic detailers.

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Pain Management

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Lidocaine injection into the rat dorsal root ganglion causes neuroinflammation.

scientific article published on March 2009

Lifestyle intervention in general practice for physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption and diet in elderly: a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 24 August 2013

Long-term streptozotocin diabetes impairs arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acid metabolism and ∆5 desaturation indices in aged rats

scientific article published on 30 October 2014

Many researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement: a mixed-methods study

scientific article published in 2022

Medical futility treatment in intensive care units.

scientific article published on November 2016

Methodological and Reporting Quality of Systematic Reviews Published in the Highest Ranking Journals in the Field of Pain.

scientific article

Methodological challenges of analysing COVID-19 data during the pandemic

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Methodological studies evaluating evidence are not systematic reviews

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

Methodological tools and sensitivity analysis for assessing quality or risk of bias used in systematic reviews published in the high-impact anesthesiology journals

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Minor differences were found between AMSTAR 2 and ROBIS in the assessment of systematic reviews including both randomized and nonrandomized studies

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

Multiple overlapping systematic reviews facilitate the origin of disputes: the case of thrombolytic therapy for pulmonary embolism.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

National consumption of opioid and nonopioid analgesics in Croatia: 2007-2013.

scientific article

National survey of pain clinics in Croatia: Organization and services.

scientific article

Neuromodulation with electrical field stimulation of dorsal root ganglion in various pain syndromes: a systematic review with focus on participant selection

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Neuroticism and pain catastrophizing aggravate response to pain in healthy adults: an experimental study

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

No difference in knowledge obtained from infographic or plain language summary of a Cochrane systematic review: three randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Open data and data sharing in articles about COVID-19 published in preprint servers medRxiv and bioRxiv

scientific article published in 2022

Outcome Domains, Outcome Measures, and Characteristics of Randomized Controlled Trials Testing Nonsurgical Interventions for Osteoarthritis

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Outcome domains and pain outcome measures in randomized controlled trials of interventions for postoperative pain in children and adolescents

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Overactive bladder symptoms in patients undergoing rigid and flexible cystoscopy

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Pain associated with psoriasis: systematic scoping review protocol

scientific article published on 28 June 2020

Pain to hospital times after myocardial infarction in patients from Dalmatian mainland and islands, southern Croatia.

scientific article

Pain-to-hospital times, cardiovascular risk factors, and early intrahospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article

Parents' pain catastrophizing is related to pain catastrophizing of their adult children.

scientific article published in March 2012

Pars plana vitrectomy versus scleral buckling for repairing simple rhegmatogenous retinal detachments

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Physicians' attitudes about interprofessional treatment of chronic pain: family physicians are considered the most important collaborators

scientific article published on 15 July 2012

Postoperative Pain Management after Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Surgical Treatment: Comparing Practice with Guidelines

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

Postoperative pain in complex ophthalmic surgical procedures: comparing practice with guidelines

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Predictors of attrition and academic success of medical students: a 30-year retrospective study

scientific article

Prescribers' compliance is part of benefit-risk assessment of medicines and it can lead to failure of risk minimization measures and withdrawals of medicines

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Pressures and interventions imposed on medical school teachers regarding students' examination grades.

scientific article published in August 2013

Prevalence and severity of pain in adult end-stage renal disease patients on chronic intermittent hemodialysis: a systematic review

scientific article

Prognostic value of low and moderately elevated C-reactive protein in acute coronary syndrome: a 2-year follow-up study

scientific article published on 20 September 2013

Proliferative injection therapy for osteoarthritis: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 11 February 2017

Protocol registration issues of systematic review and meta-analysis studies: a survey of global researchers

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Randomized controlled trial about pain medication flupirtine ignores recent pharmacovigilance warnings.

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Reduced epidermal thickness, nerve degeneration and increased pain-related behavior in rats with diabetes type 1 and 2

scientific article published on 12 October 2013

Reporting and analyses of sex/gender and race/ethnicity in randomized controlled trials of interventions published in the highest-ranking anesthesiology journals

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Reporting checklists are used as measurement tools for assessing quality, even though they have not been validated for such use

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Reporting of interventions used in anesthesiology trials: analysis using the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Reporting of methodological studies in health research: a protocol for the development of the MethodologIcal STudy reportIng Checklist (MISTIC)

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts in the seven highest-ranking anesthesiology journals

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

Reporting randomized controlled trial quality and search date in systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

scientific article

Reproducibility of search strategies of non-Cochrane systematic reviews published in anaesthesiology journals is suboptimal: primary methodological study

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Research methodology and characteristics of journal articles with original data, preprint articles and registered clinical trial protocols about COVID-19

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Research methodology used in the 50 most cited articles in the field of pediatrics: types of studies that become citation classics

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Response to letter to the editor by Mc Sween-Cadieux et al. (2017)

scientific article published on 05 March 2018

Revisiting established medicines: An overview of systematic reviews about ibuprofen and paracetamol for treating pain in children

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Risk Factors Associated with Pain on Chronic Intermittent Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review

scientific article (publication date: 18 April 2017)

Risk factors associated with postoperative pain after ophthalmic surgery: a prospective study.

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Risk of Bias and Quality of Reporting in Colon and Rectal Cancer Systematic Reviews Cited by National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Risk of bias assessments for selective reporting were inadequate in the majority of Cochrane reviews

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Risk of bias judgments for random sequence generation in Cochrane systematic reviews were frequently not in line with Cochrane Handbook

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Risk perception about medication sharing among patients: a focus group qualitative study on borrowing and lending of prescription analgesics

scientific article

Risks associated with borrowing and sharing of prescription analgesics among patients observed by pain management physicians in Croatia: a qualitative study.

scientific article

Scientific art for beginners.

scientific article published in July 2006

Selective reporting bias due to discrepancies between registered and published outcomes in osteoarthritis trials

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Sharing of prescription analgesics amongst patients in family practice: Frequency and associated factors

scientific article published in December 2017

Significance of research networking for enhancing collaboration and research productivity

scientific article

Survey of Cochrane protocols found methods for data extraction from figures not mentioned or unclear.

scientific article

Targeted delivery of pharmacological agents into rat dorsal root ganglion

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Technology-assisted risk of bias assessment in systematic reviews requires precise definitions of risk of bias

scientific article published on 10 March 2018

The Medical School of the Catholic University of Croatia: Principles, Goals, Standards and Organization

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

The effects of intraganglionic injection of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II inhibitors on pain-related behavior in diabetic neuropathy.

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

The expression of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in the dorsal horns of rats with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

The judgement of biases included in the category "other bias" in Cochrane systematic reviews of interventions: a systematic survey

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The use of systematic reviews to justify anaesthesiology trials: A meta-epidemiological study

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Treatment of acute migraine attacks in children with analgesics on the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List: A systematic review and GRADE evidence synthesis.

scientific article published in January 2017

Turning Croatian science into policy.

scientific article published in April 2008

Using social media for knowledge translation, promotion of evidence-based medicine and high-quality information on health

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Web-Based Educational Intervention to Improve Knowledge of Systematic Reviews Among Health Science Professionals: Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published in 2022

Web-Based Elective Courses for Medical Students: An Example in Pain ⬇️

scientific article published on April 11, 2011

What is a meta-epidemiological study? Analysis of published literature indicated heterogeneous study designs and definitions

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

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