BACKGROUND The common and effective treatment for degenerative lumbar diseases is lumbar spinal fusion. Controversy still exists on the choice for instrumentation with spinal fusion procedures. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis exclusively of RCTs to compare the clinical outcomes of patients receiving bilateral versus unilateral pedicle screw fixation (PSF). MATERIAL AND METHODS Afte...

The explosion of biomedical publishing makes keeping up with the primary studies an impossible task. The often disparate, confusing and contradicting findings of individual studies makes healthcare professionals turn to review articles where knowledge has been collated and published in summaries. Narrative reviews lack rigorous, systematic and reproducible synthesis. In contrast, systematic rev...

    Background: This was a systematic review presenting the future competencies for hospital managers.     Methods: Participants, interventions, comparisons and outcomes (PICO) strategy with MeSH terms were used for searching. Databases used were Web of Science, PsycINFO and Medline, EBSCO, ScienceDirect, Emerald, ProQuest, Social Sciences Research Network, Embase, and some Iranian database su...

The purpose of the article is to consider negative aspects postmodernism and study how post-post modernity can help humanity overcome modern socio-cultural crisis. In their research, authors used various scientific methods cognition, such as analysis synthesis, in particular meta-analysis meta-synthesis, generalization, induction. analyze stages development civilization from point view social p...

Aims To gain new insights into the experiences of nurses who smoke and to understand impact those on their delivery smoking cessation interventions. Design A meta-ethnographic synthesis. Data sources CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Web Science grey literature databases were searched from inception April 2019. Review Methods Meta-ethnography was employed synthesize findings included studies....

This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of e-school system application by meta synthesis method. The paradigm this research, which was carried out in qualitative approach, is interpretive based on philosophy nominalism. Qualitative studies conducted between 2010-2022 system, selected criterion sampling, one purposive sampling methods, were included research. For purpose, order reac...

INTRODUCTION Despite the established relationship between physical activity and health, data suggest that many children are insufficiently active, and that levels decline into adolescence. Engaging the family in interventions may increase and maintain children's physical activity levels at the critical juncture before secondary school. Synthesis of existing evidence will inform future studies, ...

With the rapid growth of neuroimaging research and accumulation of neuroinformatic databases the synthesis of consensus findings using meta-analysis is becoming increasingly important. Meta-analyses pool data across many studies to identify reliable experimental effects and characterize the degree of agreement across studies. Coordinate-based meta-analysis (CBMA) methods are the standard approa...