Systematic reviews are difficult to keep up to date, but failure to do so leads to a decay in
review currency, accuracy, and utility. We are developing a novel approach to systematic …

The Effective Health Care bulletins have con-centrated on providing systematic reviews of
the research evidence on clinical and cost effectiveness to help inform decision makers and …

Nurses most often use a subjective “well/fair/poor” system to assess and document
breastfeeding. LATCH is a breastfeeding charting system that provides a systematic method for …

Background Urinary incontinence is a common and distressing problem. Bladder training
aims to increase the interval between voids and is widely used for the treatment of urinary …

Objectives • To describe systematically studies that directly assessed the learning curve
effect of health technologies.• Systematically to identify ‘novel’statistical techniques applied to …

New approaches to evidence synthesis, which use human effort and machine automation in
mutually reinforcing ways, can enhance the feasibility and sustainability of living systematic …

While it is important for the evidence supporting practice guidelines to be current, that is
often not the case. The advent of living systematic reviews has made the concept of “living …

Objective: We reviewed and appraised the methods by which the issue of the learning curve
has been addressed during health technology assessment in the past.Method: We …

OBJECTIVES: To address issues about data monitoring committees (DMCs) for randomised
controlled trials (RCTs). DATA SOURCES: Electronic databases. Handsearching of selected …

The heightened risk of epilepsy in cerebral palsy (CP) was recognized by Freud more than
100 years ago. His descriptions of the characteristics of the seizures indicate his appreciation …