A Comprehensive Assessment Tool for Patient Registry Software Systems: The CIPROS Checklist

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (05) ◽  
pp. 447-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Mansmann ◽  
D. Lindoerfer
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Patient Registry ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Software System ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Patient Registries ◽  
Wide Range

SummaryBackground: Patient registries are an important instrument in medical research. Often their structure is complex and their implementation uses composite software systems to meet the wide spectrum of challenges.Objectives: For the implementation of a registry, there is a wide range of commercial, open source, and self-developed systems available and a minimal standard for the critical appraisal of their architecture is needed.Methods: We performed a systematic review of the literature to define a catalogue of relevant criteria to construct a minimal appraisal standard.Results: The CIPROS list is developed based on 64 papers which were found by our systematic review. The list covers twelve sections and contains 72 items.Conclusions: The CIPROS list supports developers to assess requirements on existing systems and strengthens the reporting of patient registry software system descriptions. It can be a first step to create standards for patient registry software system assessments.

scholarly journals Valuing the impact of health and social care programs using social return on investment analysis: how have academics advanced the methodology? A systematic review

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e029789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Louise Hutchinson ◽  
Angela Berndt ◽  
Deborah Forsythe ◽  
Susan Gilbert-Hunt ◽  
Stacey George ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Return On Investment ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

ObjectivesTo identify how social return on investment (SROI) analysis—traditionally used by business consultants—has been interpreted, used and innovated by academics in the health and social care sector and to assess the quality of peer-reviewed SROI studies in this sector.DesignSystematic review.SettingsCommunity and residential settings.ParticipantsA wide range of demographic groups and age groups.ResultsThe following databases were searched: Web of Science, Scopus, CINAHL, Econlit, Medline, PsychINFO, Embase, Emerald, Social Care Online and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Limited uptake of SROI methodology by academics was found in the health and social care sector. From 868 papers screened, 8 studies met the criteria for inclusion in this systematic review. Study quality was found to be highly variable, ranging from 38% to 90% based on scores from a purpose-designed quality assessment tool. In general, relatively high consistency and clarity was observed in the reporting of the research question, reasons for using this methodology and justifying the need for the study. However, weaknesses were observed in other areas including justifying stakeholders, reporting sample sizes, undertaking sensitivity analysis and reporting unexpected or negative outcomes. Most papers cited links to additional materials to aid in reporting. There was little evidence that academics had innovated or advanced the methodology beyond that outlined in a much-cited SROI guide.ConclusionAcademics have thus far been slow to adopt SROI methodology in the evaluation of health and social care interventions, and there is little evidence of innovation and development of the methodology. The word count requirements of peer-reviewed journals may make it difficult for authors to be fully transparent about the details of their studies, potentially impacting the quality of reporting in those studies published in these journals.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42018080195.

Artificial intelligence techniques in asthma: a systematic review and critical appraisal of the existing literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 2000521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos P. Exarchos ◽  
Maria Beltsiou ◽  
Chainti-Antonella Votti ◽  
Konstantinos Kostikas
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
Asthma Management ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Patient Classification ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Screening And Diagnosis

Artificial intelligence (AI) when coupled with large amounts of well characterised data can yield models that are expected to facilitate clinical practice and contribute to the delivery of better care, especially in chronic diseases such as asthma.The purpose of this paper is to review the utilisation of AI techniques in all aspects of asthma research, i.e. from asthma screening and diagnosis, to patient classification and the overall asthma management and treatment, in order to identify trends, draw conclusions and discover potential gaps in the literature.We conducted a systematic review of the literature using PubMed and DBLP from 1988 up to 2019, yielding 425 articles; after removing duplicate and irrelevant articles, 98 were further selected for detailed review.The resulting articles were organised in four categories, and subsequently compared based on a set of qualitative and quantitative factors. Overall, we observed an increasing adoption of AI techniques for asthma research, especially within the last decade.AI is a scientific field that is in the spotlight, especially the last decade. In asthma there are already numerous studies; however, there are certain unmet needs that need to be further elucidated.

scholarly journals The “Epulis” Dilemma. Considerations from Provisional to Final Diagnosis. A Systematic Review

Oral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-235
Author(s):  
Paola Costa ◽  
Matteo Peditto ◽  
Antonia Marcianò ◽  
Antonio Barresi ◽  
Giacomo Oteri
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Microscopic Examination ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Final Diagnosis ◽  
Electronic Search ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Gingival Enlargement ◽  
Neoplastic Lesions ◽  
Slow Growing

“Epulis” is a widely used term to describe a localized gingival enlargement. However, a wide range of neoformations might present as localized, slow-growing, asymptomatic gingival masses. A systematic review was conducted to outline the pathological entities that were provisionally dignosed as “epulis” and whose final diagnosis was made after microscopic examination. An electronic search of PubMed, Google Scholar and Scopus databases from January 2000 to February 2021 was performed. An initial search of the databases identified a total of 864 documents, and after a careful process of screening and selection, 14 studies were included in this systematic review and processed for data extraction. The results show that histological examination, sometimes combined with immunohistochemistry, might reveal a wide spectrum of lesions, including hamartomatous lesions, non-neoplastic lesions, benign and malign neoplasms and metastases from distant cancers.

scholarly journals Guidelines about physical activity and exercise to reduce cardiometabolic risk factors: protocol for a systematic review and critical appraisal

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e032656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelin Siedler ◽  
M Hassan Murad ◽  
Yngve Falck-Ytter ◽  
Philipp Dahm ◽  
Reem A Mustafa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Cochrane Central Register ◽  
Cardiometabolic Disorders ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Physical Activity And Exercise

IntroductionPhysical activity can prevent a wide range of diseases, including highly prevalent conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and associated cardiometabolic disorders. Numerous guidelines for the prescription of physical activity and exercise to promote general health and prevent disease are released each year, but the quality of these guidelines is currently unknown. This systematic review and critical appraisal of physical activity and exercise guidelines aims to summarise the current status and quality of these guidelines to provide suggestions to improve the development of future guidelines in this area.Methods and analysisWe will conduct a systematic review of guidelines in Ovid MEDLINE(R) and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, and Daily, Ovid EMBASE, Ovid Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Scopus databases published from database 2000 through 23 October 2019, written in English for the use of physical activity and exercise for the prevention of cardiometabolic disease and related risk factors in otherwise healthy individuals. We will also search the grey literature for additional eligible documents. We will use the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II tool to assess the quality of eligible recommendations from all included guidelines, as well as perform exploratory analyses on guideline development variables.Ethics and disseminationAs a protocol for the review and critical appraisal of published documents, no potential ethical considerations are discussed. The protocol will guide the development of the review, which will be disseminated to relevant journals for publication.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019126364

scholarly journals Surgical interventions targeting the nucleus caudalis: a systematic review and historical perspective.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Santyr ◽  
Mohamad Abbass ◽  
Alan Chalil ◽  
Amirti Vivekanandan ◽  
Margaret Lauren Tindale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Preoperative Diagnosis ◽  
Facial Pain ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Reporting Scheme ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Outcome Reporting ◽  
Intervention Technique ◽  
Wide Range

Introduction: Chronic facial pain is a prevalent group of conditions and when refractory to common treatments poses a social and economic burden. The last decade has seen a multitude of advancements in the multimodal management of pain. Ablative or neuromodulatory interventions targeting the nucleus caudalis (NC) of the trigeminocervical complex is one such treatment that has remained underutilized. Methods: Here we present a systematic review of the literature and historical perspective regarding interventions targeting the NC. We examine the various intervention techniques, clinical indications, and procedural efficacy. A novel outcome reporting scheme was devised to allow comparison between studies using differing outcome reporting methods. Results: A review of the literature revealed 49 retrospective studies published over the last 80 years, reporting on 858 patients. The most common technique was the open NC dorsal root entry zone nucleotomy/tractotomy (n=515, 60.0%); however, there has been an emergence of novel approaches such as endoscopic (n=6, 0.7%) and spinal cord stimulation (n=20, 2.3%) in the last 10 years. Regardless of intervention technique or preoperative diagnosis, 90.4% of patients demonstrated some improvement from treatment. Conclusion: This systematic review highlights recent advancements in NC intervention technique and the wide range of facial pain syndromes for which these interventions show promising efficacy. New and less invasive techniques continue to emerge, however prospective studies remain absent in the literature. Future work should address efficacy comparisons between intervention type and preoperative diagnosis.

Conversion in English: homonymy, polysemy and paronymy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
SALVADOR VALERA ◽  
ALBA E. RUZ
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Special Relevance

Conversion is a key type of word-formation process in English, but the precise nature of the relation between base and derivative in conversion is rarely discussed, even if conversion is considered as a dynamic process. When it is considered explicitly, the relation has been described in terms of paradigmatic relations between lexemes, specifically homonymy or polysemy. This is usually without any specification of how converted words accommodate the conditions set by the definition of each of these relations, and as a special type of one or the other, because conversion-related words violate some of those conditions. This article is intended as a systematic review of the literature that discusses the relation between conversion-related words in English. We show that a wide range of proposals have been made to describe the relation: homonymy, heterosemy, homomorphy, zero-derivation (as a relation), polysemy, lexical extension, synsemy, hyponymy and paronymy. We review the extent to which each of these terms fits the relationship in major types of conversion, and argue that, if a relationship is to be described between conversion-related pairs, then Cruse's (1986) separation of semantic relations of a paradigmatic type from paronymic relations is of special relevance here. We propose that, regardless of the direction and type of meaning, paronymy applies across the various specific semantic patterns that conversion may involve. We emphasize, however, the possibility of several relations according to the type of conversion, i.e. different types of conversion may need description in terms of a different relation.

Higher education, the arts, and transdisciplinarity: A systematic review of the literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 003452372110057
Author(s):  
Wander M van Baalen ◽  
Tamara de Groot ◽  
Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Shed Light

Against an increasingly compartmentalized educational landscape, we have heard urgent calls for new modes of teaching and learning. In this light, educators from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds turned to transdisciplinarity and the arts for a possible response. The educational initiatives being developed and the related literature are situated across a wide range of themes, disciplines, and methodologies. The fragmented nature of the academic discussion inhibits our capacity to think through the implications of mobilizing the concept of transdisciplinarity within the arts and education. This study addresses the lack of an overview by conducting a systematic review of the literature characterized by a triangular interest in higher education, transdisciplinarity, and the arts. The documents under review amount to 458 unique scientific papers. In our results, we present a metaphorical scale – moving from buzzwords to a theoretically delineated usage – to make sense of the use and conceptualization of transdisciplinarity and we introduce three main ways how the arts are part of transdisciplinary educational compositions. In bringing together literature on education, the arts, and transdisciplinarity, we shed light on relevant similarities between thinking and doing that too often operates in isolation. As such, we aim to facilitate opportunities for mutual learning and present an improved vantage point from which to consider how decisions regarding particular conceptualizations and positionalities feed into our artistic and educational practices.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Vascular Surgery Practice: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 153857442199821
Author(s):  
Jorge H. Ulloa ◽  
Valentin Figueroa ◽  
Juan Sebastian Cifuentes ◽  
Paula Pinto ◽  
Fedor Lurie
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Vascular Surgery ◽  
Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Arterial Disease ◽  
Multiple Organ ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Peripheral Arterial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
D Dimer

Background: COVID-19 is characterized by a pulmonary interstitial compromise which can require intensive care unit (ICU) and mechanical ventilation. Covid patients develop a wide range of pathologies. This study aims to identify the impact of COVID-19 in diseases commonly treated by vascular surgeons. Methods: Four conditions were selected: venous thromboembolism (VTE), pulmonary embolism (PE), peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and microangiopathy. A systematic review of the literature using PRISMA guidelines was. Results: Out of 1195 papers reviewed for conditions in COVID-19 patients relevant to routine vascular surgery practice, 43 papers were included and analyzed. Venous thrombosis was found to be the most common COVID-19 associated pathology with a cumulative incidence of 25% at 7 days and 48% at 14 days. Additionally, D-dimer levels proved to be a good predictor, even in the early stages of the disease with a sensitivity of 85%, specificity of 88.5% and a negative predictive value of 94.7%. Patients in the ICU demonstrated a significantly higher risk of developing VTE, even when receiving pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis. Although evidence of arterial thrombosis was less common (1% to 16.3%), its consequences were typically more serious, including limb loss and death even in young individuals (OR = 25, 95% CI). Finally, microangiopathy has a wide spectrum of clinical presentations from retinal microangiopathy to other more severe manifestations such as myocardial injury, pulmonary compromise and potential multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Conclusions: Although the pathophysiological pathway by which COVID-19 produces thrombosis is not completely clear, the incidence of both arterial and venous thrombosis is increased. D-dimer screening should be done in all COVID-19 patients, as a predictor of thrombotic complications.

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