AIMC Topic: Evidence-Based Medicine

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Vitamin D status in relation to Crohn's disease: Meta-analysis of observational studies.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
OBJECTIVES: Inconsistent findings have been published regarding vitamin D status among patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and the association with disease severity. We aimed to perform a meta-analysis evaluating serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D and 1,25 de...

Exchanging expertise and constructing boundaries: The development of a transnational knowledge network around heroin-assisted treatment.

The International journal on drug policy
Over the last 20 years, supervised injectable and inhalable heroin prescribing has been developed, tested and in some cases introduced as a second line treatment for limited groups of entrenched heroin users in a number of European countries and Cana...

Scotland's knowledge network: a progress report on Knowledge into Action.

Scottish medical journal
Launched in 2012, Knowledge into Action is the national knowledge management strategy for the health and social care workforce in Scotland. It is transforming the role of the national digital knowledge service--NHS Education for Scotlands' Knowledge ...

Transoral robotic excision of ectopic lingual thyroid: Case series and literature review.

Head & neck
BACKGROUND: Surgical excision of an ectopic lingual thyroid has traditionally been associated with significant morbidity and has therefore been reserved for patients with severe obstructive symptoms or suspected malignancy. Transoral robotic surgery ...

An approach to fuzzy soft sets in decision making based on grey relational analysis and Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence: An application in medical diagnosis.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
OBJECTIVE: The existing methods of fuzzy soft sets in decision making are mainly based on different kinds of level soft sets, and it is very difficult for decision makers to select a suitable level soft set in most instances. The goal of this paper i...

Automatic evidence quality prediction to support evidence-based decision making.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
BACKGROUND: Evidence-based medicine practice requires practitioners to obtain the best available medical evidence, and appraise the quality of the evidence when making clinical decisions. Primarily due to the plethora of electronically available data...

Variable importance and prediction methods for longitudinal problems with missing variables.

PloS one
We present prediction and variable importance (VIM) methods for longitudinal data sets containing continuous and binary exposures subject to missingness. We demonstrate the use of these methods for prognosis of medical outcomes of severe trauma patie...

Robotic general surgery: current practice, evidence, and perspective.

Langenbeck's archives of surgery
BACKGROUND: Robotic technology commenced to be adopted for the field of general surgery in the 1990s. Since then, the da Vinci surgical system (Intuitive Surgical Inc, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) has remained by far the most commonly used system in this doma...