PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the experience of female patients living with breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) to gain a comprehensive understanding of this experience. The review is designed as a qualitative meta-synthesis. DATA SOURCES Electronic searches were conducted in MEDLINE®, CINAHL®, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Articles were included where researchers...

For the past two decades, there have been calls for medical education to become more evidence-based. Whilst previous works have described how to use such methods, there are no works discussing when or why to select different methods from either a conceptual or pragmatic perspective. This question is not to suggest the superiority of such methods, but that having a clear rationale to underpin su...

BACKGROUND Joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data are commonly used to simultaneously analyse correlated data in single study cases. Synthesis of evidence from multiple studies using meta-analysis is a natural next step but its feasibility depends heavily on the standard of reporting of joint models in the medical literature. During this review we aim to assess the current standar...

Introduction There is a growing concern about the misuse of over counter (OTC) and prescription only medication (POM) because impact on physical mental health, drug interactions, overdoses drug-related deaths. These medicines include opioid analgesics, anxiolytics such as pregabalin diazepam antidepressants. This protocol outlines how systematic review will be undertaken (during June 2021), whi...

Background: Exposure to extreme low or high ambient temperatures is associated with cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine diseases other complications, thereby causing death. This article a synthesis of the relationships between temperature mortality from time series studies.
 Methods: systematic review meta-analysis used PICO search strategy Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Re...

Genre analysis as an area of great concern in recent decades, involves the observation of linguistic features used by a determined discourse community. The research article (RA) is one of the most widely researched genres in academic writing which is realized through some rhetorical moves and discursive steps to achieve a communicative purpose. This study aimed at proposing a model of generic p...

The application of formal languages in the software development process is becoming more and more evident. Providing formal semantics and tools for the synthesis, analysis and transformation of behavioural models is usually the first step in the process of formal methods development. Many formal methods exist but, as yet, there is an absence of a meta-theory of formal methods. Such a meta-theor...