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January 01, 2023 - Radiotherapy as a component of breast conserving therapy has traditionally
included the whole breast … Harms of PBI Versus
WBI
Thirteen RCTs reported in 38 articles with a total of 15,276 patients were included … These
comparisons included IMRT versus 3DCRT, multi-catheter interstitial brachytherapy
versus 3DCRT … Limitations
The clinical trials included in our aggregate analysis represent a variety of treatment … Many of the included clinical trials did not report
subgroup analyses, and often, the subgroups were
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September 23, 2014 - There was only one included study addressing this
outcome. … not clearly be
separated from studies of EUS-FNA, and we still
included those reviews. … Our Key Informants as well as our Technical Expert
Panel included those with such expertise. … imaging, one was not included in our
report because it was a narrative review, a one was
not included … Perhaps you are referring to the CAPS studies,
which we also included.
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January 01, 2015 - Results
Overview
We included several types of studies. … Finally, observational studies
with comparator groups were included. … Table A summarizes the included studies by design.
Table A. … No other subgroups were separately reported in included
studies. … Chapter 8: Assessing risk of
bias in included studies. In: Higgins JPT, Green S, eds.
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June 01, 2010 - We have included further information about the CONTROL
trauma trial. … the report back to the raw data in the included
studies. … As requested, we have included this information. … The identity of the included hospitals,
however, is confidential. … We have included the cited cardiac
surgery trial study in our results.
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February 07, 2025 - The proposed search
strategy for EMBASE and Medline (via EMBASE.com) is included in Appendix A. … We will only assess risk of bias
for outcomes which will be included in the strength of evidence (SOE … We plan to describe the distribution of
social determinants among included studies as well as report … Reporting bias will be addressed by examining the funding source of
included studies, the direction … Factors important to consider include the type
or extent of surgery participants in included studies
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April 01, 2012 - We would have included
discussion of such factors, should they be part of included
studies. … These issues are included in the methods. … These issues are included in the methods. … These issues are included in the methods. … These issues are included in the methods.
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January 01, 2024 - Characteristics and outcomes of included systematic reviews. … Included primary studies Evidence Table C-2. … Risk of bias assessment of included primary studies. … Half of the included studies (n = 6) included multilevel interventions that combined a person-oriented … Risk of bias assessment of included primary studies.
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December 01, 2009 - However, this result was not
consistent in other medication regimens that included tiotropium. … To be included patients had to have a COPD diagnosis (ICD-9 491.x, 492.x, 496)
during a twelve month … Events occurring within 30
days following index date were not included. … This resulted in 17 medication regimens included in the analysis. … Other three combination regimens that included tiotropium and the four combination
regimen that included
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February 01, 2014 - Data on harms or
adverse effects of included interventions are captured in
Key Question 3. … We included studies published in
English only. … Data Extraction
Two reviewers independently extracted relevant data from
all included publications … Forty
studies included current smokers only, and seven studies
included both current smokers and women … The interventions included NRT (3 studies) and educational
materials (1 study).
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November 01, 2024 - We included randomized and nonrandomized controlled trials,
prospective cohort, and nested case-control … eligible for the review and 45 studies were assessed as low or moderate risk of bias
and therefore included … We
also included a range of populations, from infants to older adults and pregnant people. … evidence, which
provides context about the methodological rigor and confidence in the findings of the
included
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August 26, 2020 - Employer-delivered programs would have
been included in the scope of this review. … We included these interventions in this
section of the PICOTS Table.
26. … Some included both
children and adults. … We included several organizations in the
grey literature review. … Medication adherence was
included as an outcome of interest and is
included in our evidence tables.
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May 29, 2013 - We have included studies with both
asymptomatic and symptomatic VTE. … Asymptomatic DVT was included in our
analytic framework. … We have included such
studies. … Reviewer pairs included
members with content and methods
expertise. … Thank you –we have included this study
now in our review – for KQ5.
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December 01, 2017 - We also checked the reference lists of
included studies. … Women
included in the studies were predominately premenopausal
(39 studies). … Women included in the studies
were predominately premenopausal. … Harms associated with myomectomy included
transfusion and pelvic organ injury. … If a study included
different types of interventions, each is included in the
related synthesis and
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October 30, 2019 - For example,
were cross sectional studies included? … And, it is
not clear if poor quality articles were included. … A list of excluded
studies is included in Appendix
D.
17. … The study by Nelson is
now included in the report
145. … It is
not included in the references.
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October 01, 2022 - We discussed all
included studies narratively, and we rated the strength of evidence (SOE) using EPC … No included studies compared surgical interventions to other treatment modalities
(e.g., pharmacologic … relevant studies), sparse data which precluded analyses of specific
etiologies or seizure types, no included … This issue is
especially true for surgical interventions; all of the articles included for surgical
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August 01, 2024 - ClinicalTrials.gov from January
2000 through March 2024, plus the reference lists of systematic reviews and included … We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
and nonrandomized studies of interventions (NRSIs) comparing … Results
We included 33 articles from eight RCTs (six with low to moderate RoB and two
with high RoB … Included NRSIs had serious to critical RoB, making it impossible to draw
causal inferences. … Common limitations of the NRSIs included poorly defined
interventions and comparators, lack of power
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March 31, 2010 - We included 124 interventional studies described
in 131 articles (Figure B). … We included four home-based intervention studies. … These
studies included 4,071 participants. … KQ2 included one study with a CHI component. … We included these in
the review because they included diet and physical activity
interventions and
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November 01, 2024 - A
detailed search strategy is included in Appendix A. … All
included primary studies are in Appendix C. … SRs that included patients with CKD but not on dialysis were not included for this
KQ if they constituted … Two SRs also included patients
on HD/PD. … All 4 included SRs for KQ1/KQ2 were of low quality.
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October 01, 2015 - Four studies with a total
population of 3,647 were included to reach this conclusion;
one study included … only patients with CKD, two included
only patients with cardiac issues, and one included only
patients … Two studies
included only CKD patients, one included patients with
cardiac issues, and one had a general … Assessing Risk of Bias in Included
Studies. … The Cochrane Collaboration; 2013. http://bmg.cochrane.
org/assessing-risk-bias-included-studies.
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January 01, 2011 - We included
human studies of any design, case series, and case
reports as long as they included patients … We included only reports in English in our
qualitative review of the literature. … A total of 87 articles
were ultimately included in the study. … Common exclusion criteria included advanced age,
large brain infarction, abnormal hemostasis, severe … #Death included if patients were followed up for any duration of time after hospital discharge.