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Overview of the SF-36 Health Survey and the International Quality …

WEBThis article presents information about the development and evaluation of the SF-36 Health Survey, a 36-item generic measure of health status. It summarizes studies of reliability …

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Defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life

WEBThis article reviews current approaches to defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and provides guidelines for their use. Definitions of …

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Improvements in short-form measures of health status: …

WEBIt has been more than 15 years since the 36-item Short-Form (SF-36) Health Survey was first made available for testing. During that time, this 36-item generic health status …

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Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of …

WEBRecently, an increasing number of systematic reviews have been published in which the measurement properties of health status questionnaires are compared. For …

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High and unclear risk of bias assessments are predominant in …

WEBOf 46 eligible reviews, 35 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. A total of 1045 primary studies with 4133 bias assessments were identified. Of those, 56% (2319/4133) …

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Health literacy in chronic disease management: a matter of …

WEBHealth literacy plays a crucial role in chronic disease management. To comprehensively manage chronic conditions on a daily basis, individuals must be able to …

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A hierarchy of evidence for assessing qualitative health research

WEBThis paper arose from a series of critical appraisal exercises based on recent qualitative research studies in the health literature. We focused on the central …

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Future of Evidence Ecosystem Series: Evidence ecosystems and …

WEBThe conceptual idea of ecosystems to address problems in society may take many shapes and forms and apply different lenses and perspectives. Within health …

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GRADE guidelines: A new series of articles in the

WEBThe Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group is a group of health professionals, researchers, …

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GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and …

WEBThis article is the first of a series providing guidance for use of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system of …

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Biological plausibility in environmental health systematic reviews: a

WEB“Biological plausibility” is a concept frequently referred to in environmental and public health when researchers are evaluating how confident they are in the results …

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The difference between evidence-based medicine, evidence-based

WEBAdjective “evidence-based” is defined in dictionaries as “supported by a large amount of scientific research” [1] and “denoting an approach to medicine, …

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Using the full PICO model as a search tool for systematic reviews

WEBThe use of the four-part PICO model to facilitate search strategy development for a precise answer is recommended for structuring searches for systematic reviews. …

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Applying an equity lens to interventions: using PROGRESS ensures

WEB] (e.g., racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic groups). Some health inequalities are attributable to biological variations or free choice and others are …

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Quasi-experimental study designs series—paper 4: uses and value

WEBQuasi-experimental studies are increasingly used to establish causal relationships in epidemiology and health systems research. Quasi-experimental studies …

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AGREE II: Advancing guideline development, reporting and …

WEBClinical practice guidelines, which are systematically developed statements aimed at helping people make clinical, policy-related and system-related decisions [1,2], …

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Weaving First Nations, Inuit, and Métis principles and values into

WEBIn the Spring of 2021, a research team from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health completed environmental scans on nine key health-related topics to develop an …

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THE IMPORTANCE OF SEVERITY OF ILLNESS ADJUSTMENT IN …

WEB632 Amy K. Rosen et al Regardless of which outcome measure is used, the importance of using severity-adjusted outcomes to measure quality is well-established

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Trials embedded in cohorts, registries, and health care …

WEBEDITORIAL Trials embedded in cohorts, registries, and health care databases are gaining ground Traditionally, randomized trials are organized and

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Tutorial on directed acyclic graphs

WEBDirected acyclic graphs (DAGs) are an intuitive yet rigorous tool to communicate about causal questions in clinical and epidemiologic research and inform …

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CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF HEALTH-RELATED …

WEBTable 1. Seiection of articles in the databases Medlinc (1966-92) 5 573 refs Health Planning and Administration (1975-92) 4 273 refs Excerpta

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