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Most published and unpublished dissertations should be excluded from meta-analyses: comment on Moyer et al.

Moyer et al. [1] systematically collected published and unpublished dissertations evaluating psychosocial interventions for cancer patients and examined the methodological quality of these studies. They concluded that because published and unpublished dissertations differ little in methodological adequacy, the inclusion of unpublished dissertations in meta-analyses is desirable in order to avoi...

A Clinical Diagnosis Made Bench Side after Two Years

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The effect of clinical interventions on hospital readmissions: a meta-review of published meta-analyses

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The economic impact and ease of measurement of all-cause hospital readmission rates (HRR) have led to the current debate as to whether they are reducible, and whether they should be used as a publicly reported quality indicators of medical care. OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of broad clinical interventions in preventing HRR of patients with chronic diseases METHO...

Two meta-analyses of noncontact healing studies.

OBJECTIVE Reviews of empirical work on the efficacy of noncontact healing have found that adopting various practices that incorporate an intention to heal can have some positive effect upon the recipient's wellbeing. However, such reviews focus on 'whole' human participants who might be susceptible to expectancy effects or benefit from the healing intentions of friends, family or their own reli...