Ingrid Toews, Salman Hussain, John L Z Nyirenda, Maria A Willis, Lucia Kantorová, Simona Slezáková, Minyahil Tadesse Boltena, John Victor Peter, Luis Eduardo Santos Fontes, Miloslav Klugar, Behnam Sadeghirad, Joerg J Meerpohl
{"title":"Pharmacological interventions for preventing upper gastrointestinal bleeding in people admitted to intensive care units: a network meta-analysis.","authors":"Ingrid Toews, Salman Hussain, John L Z Nyirenda, Maria A Willis, Lucia Kantorová, Simona Slezáková, Minyahil Tadesse Boltena, John Victor Peter, Luis Eduardo Santos Fontes, Miloslav Klugar, Behnam Sadeghirad, Joerg J Meerpohl","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2024-112886","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjebm-2024-112886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To assess the efficacy and safety of pharmacological interventions for preventing upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in people admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).</p><p><strong>Design and setting: </strong>Systematic review and frequentist network meta-analysis using standard methodological procedures as recommended by Cochrane for screening of records, data extraction and analysis. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach was used to assess the certainty of evidence.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Randomised controlled trials involving patients admitted to ICUs for longer than 24 hours were included.</p><p><strong>Search methods: </strong>The Cochrane Gut Specialised Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, Embase and Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Information database (LILACS) databases were searched from August 2017 to March 2022. The search in MEDLINE was updated in April 2023. We also searched ClinicalTrials.gov and the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (WHO ICTRP).</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>The primary outcome was the prevention of clinically important upper GI bleeding.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included 123 studies with 46 996 participants. Cimetidine (relative risk (RR) 0.56, 95% CI 0.40 to 0.77, moderate certainty), ranitidine (RR 0.54, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.76, moderate certainty), antacids (RR 0.48, 95% CI 0.33 to 0.68, moderate certainty), sucralfate (RR 0.54, 95% CI 0.39 to 0.75, moderate certainty) and a combination of ranitidine and antacids (RR 0.13, 95% CI 0.03 to 0.62, moderate certainty) are likely effective in preventing upper GI bleeding.The effect of any intervention on the prevention of nosocomial pneumonia, all-cause mortality in the ICU or the hospital, duration of the stay in the ICU, duration of intubation and (serious) adverse events remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Several interventions seem effective in preventing clinically important upper GI bleeding while there is limited evidence for other outcomes. Patient-relevant benefits and harms need to be assessed under consideration of the patients' underlying conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141598378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madelin R Siedler, Reem A Mustafa, Lifeng Lin, Rebecca L Morgan, Yngve Falck-Ytter, Philipp Dahm, Shahnaz Sultan, Mohammad Hassan Murad
{"title":"Meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a user's guide for analysis and interpretation.","authors":"Madelin R Siedler, Reem A Mustafa, Lifeng Lin, Rebecca L Morgan, Yngve Falck-Ytter, Philipp Dahm, Shahnaz Sultan, Mohammad Hassan Murad","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142104128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stop searching and you will find it: Search-Resistant Concepts in systematic review searches.","authors":"Farhad Shokraneh","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112798","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141896731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel James Tingle, Georgios Kourounis, Felix Liu, Colin H Wilson, Rachel Richardson, Josie Sandercock
{"title":"Simple tool implementing Bucher's method for indirect treatment comparisons in meta-analyses.","authors":"Samuel James Tingle, Georgios Kourounis, Felix Liu, Colin H Wilson, Rachel Richardson, Josie Sandercock","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141854719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Successes, shortcomings and learning opportunities for evidence-based medicine from the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Arnav Agarwal, Gordon Guyatt","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141854737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sietse Wieringa, Hugh McGuire, Qi Wang, Philip van der Wees, Beth Shaw
{"title":"Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines.","authors":"Sietse Wieringa, Hugh McGuire, Qi Wang, Philip van der Wees, Beth Shaw","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112352","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11287642/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41190867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reducing low value care: opportunities and challenges for Choosing Wisely campaigns.","authors":"Jeremy M Grimshaw, Wendy Levinson","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112271","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112271","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10069948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricia Logullo, Jennifer A de Beyer, Shona Kirtley, Michael Maia Schlüssel, Gary S Collins
{"title":"Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations.","authors":"Patricia Logullo, Jennifer A de Beyer, Shona Kirtley, Michael Maia Schlüssel, Gary S Collins","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2022-112126","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjebm-2022-112126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11287529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41124018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Małgorzata M Bała, Tina Poklepović Peričić, Marija Franka Žuljević, Nensi Bralić, Joanna Zając, Nkengafac Villyen Motaze, Anke Rohwer, Michalina Gajdzica, Taryn Young
{"title":"Adherence to the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) of studies on evidence-based healthcare e-learning: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Małgorzata M Bała, Tina Poklepović Peričić, Marija Franka Žuljević, Nensi Bralić, Joanna Zając, Nkengafac Villyen Motaze, Anke Rohwer, Michalina Gajdzica, Taryn Young","doi":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112647","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The objectives of this study are to assess reporting of evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) e-learning interventions using the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) checklist and explore factors associated with compliant reporting.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Methodological cross-sectional study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Based on the criteria used in an earlier systematic review, we included studies comparing EBHC e-learning and any other form of EBHC training or no EBHC training. We searched Medline, Embase, ERIC, CINAHL, CENTRAL, SCOPUS, Web of Knowledge, PsycInfo, ProQuest and Best Evidence Medical Education up to 4 January 2023. Screening of titles, abstracts, full-text articles and data extraction was done independently by two authors. For each study, we assessed adherence to each of the 17 GREET items and extracted information on possible predictors. Adequacy of reporting for each item of the GREET checklist was judged with yes (provided complete information), no (provided no information), unclear (when insufficient information was provided), or not applicable, when the item was clearly of no relevance to the intervention described (such as for item 8-details about the instructors-in the studies which used electronic, self-paced intervention, without any tutoring). Studies' adherence to the GREET checklist was presented as percentages and absolute numbers. We performed univariate analysis to assess the association of potential adherence predictors with the GREET checklist. We summarised results descriptively.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included 40 studies, the majority of which assessed e-learning or blended learning and mostly involved medical and other healthcare students. None of the studies fully reported all the GREET items. Overall, the median number of GREET items met (received yes) per study was 8 and third quartile (Q3) of GREET items met per study was 9 (min. 4 max. 14). When we used Q3 of the number of items met as cut-off point, adherence to the GREET reporting checklist was poor with 7 out of 40 studies (17.5%) reporting items of the checklist on acceptable level (adhered to at least 10 items out of 17). None of the studies reported on all 17 GREET items. For 3 items, 80% of included studies well reported information (received yes for these items): item 1 (brief description of intervention), item 4 (evidence-based practice content) and item 6 (educational strategies). Items for which 50% of included studies reported complete information (received yes for these items) included: item 9 (modes of delivery), item 11 (schedule) and 12 (time spent on learning). The items for which 70% or more of included studies did not provide information (received no for these items) included: item 7 (incentives) and item 13 (adaptations; for both items 70% of studies received no for them), item 14 (modifications of educational interventions-95% ","PeriodicalId":9059,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141305388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}