background: during recent years, there have been many advances in different types of pharmacological and non‑pharmacological tobacco control treatments. in this study, we aimed to identify the most effective smoking cessation methods used in quit based upon a review of the literature. methods: we did a search of pubmed, limited to english publications from 2000 to 2012. two trained reviewers in...

background: we are living in an era in which different branches of science are growing very rapidly. therefore, retrieving and summarizing all new valid findings on a specific subject is one of the most important priorities of scientists. the aim of the present article is to categorize different review studies within the health domain based on their approach to retrieving and summarizing origin...

objective: since health related quality of life is an important issue for infertile couples a review was conducted to examine the literature. materials and methods: this was a minireview of the literature covering all full publications that have been appeared in the english language biomedical journals. the search strategy included a combination of key words ‘quality of life', ‘infertility, and...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews consistently indicate that interventions to change healthcare professional (HCP) behaviour are haphazardly designed and poorly specified. Clarity about methods for designing and specifying interventions is needed. The objective of this review was to identify published methods for designing interventions to change HCP behaviour. METHODS A search of MEDLINE, Embase...

Several studies have shown that cognitive intervention may be beneficial for people with Alzheimer disease (AD), but literature reviews conducted so far, have yielded mixed and inconclusive results. In this work, through an extensive bibliographic search, we aim: (1) to analyze the efficacy of cognitive intervention in patients diagnosed with AD; (2) to provide an estimate of the feasibility of...

*Corresponding author at: Servicio de Evaluación del Servicio Canario de la Salud, C/ Pérez de Rozas, 5, 4 Planta, 38004 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. E-mail address: [email protected]. Abstract Systematic reviews are secondary studies that summarize the best scientific evidence available by means of explicit and rigorous methods to identify, select, appraise, analyse and summari...

The tense realization of reporting verbs in each literature review (LR) 1is, in a sense, individualistic and particular to each situation. In spite of this, LRs follow certain patterns shared by the peers and the audiences of the writer, since one of the writer’s primary goals in writing a dissertation LR is to convey his mental imagery to his peers and his audiences. This article shows that te...

BACKGROUND Franchising is an organizational form that originates from the business sector. It is increasingly used in the healthcare sector with the aim of enhancing quality and accessibility for patients, improving the efficiency and competitiveness of organizations and/or providing professionals with a supportive working environment. However, a structured overview of the scientific evidence f...

High tibia osteotomy is a common procedure in orthopedic surgery. A precise overview on indications, patients selection, pre-operative planning, surgical technique, methods of fixation, and complications have been presented. This paper focused on the points that should be considered to achieve good long-term outcomes. High tibia osteotomy is a common procedure in orthopedic surgery. A precise o...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important global public health problem, affecting women across the life span and increasing risk for a number of unfavorable health outcomes. Typically conceptualized as a private form of violence, most research has focused on individual-level risk markers. Recently, more scholarly attention has been paid to the role that the residential neighborhood enviro...