14.1 Background To improve the guideline development process and facilitate the explicit,
systematic and transparent formulation of recommendations from evidence, in 2007 WHO …

This article is published as part of a supplement sponsored by Kidney Disease: Improving
Global Outcomes (KDIGO). The opinions or views expressed in this supplement are those of …

Background Systematic reviews, which assess the risk of bias in included studies, are
increasingly used to develop environmental hazard assessments and public health …

Background Guidelines for assessing methodological and reporting quality of systematic
reviews (SRs) were developed to contribute to implementing evidence-based health care …

The geopolymer concept has gained wide international attention during the last two
decades and is now seen as a potential alternative to ordinary Portland cement; however …

Background Several scales, checklists and domain-based tools for assessing risk of
reporting biases exist, but it is unclear how much they vary in content and guidance. We …

Aims To assess the efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of lifestyle intervention, compared
with treatment as usual in people with prediabetes as defined by the American Diabetes …

Objectives To synthesise available knowledge about both sleep (SB) and awake bruxism
(AB) as depicted by previous published systematic reviews (SR). Methods SR investigating …

To summarize and evaluate the evidence on the health impact of a vegan diet, we
conducted an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PubMed …

Non-randomised studies of the effects of interventions are critical to many areas of
healthcare evaluation, but their results may be biased. It is therefore important to understand …