CONTEXT Nearly half of adult cancer survivors are younger than 65 years, but the association of cancer survivorship with employment status is unknown. OBJECTIVE To assess the association of cancer survivorship with unemployment compared with healthy controls. DATA SOURCES A systematic search of studies published between 1966 and June 2008 was conducted using MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINF...

Making inferences about the average treatment effect using the random effects model for meta-analysis is problematic in the common situation where there is a small number of studies. This is because estimates of the between-study variance are not precise enough to accurately apply the conventional methods for testing and deriving a confidence interval for the average effect. We have found that ...

background & aim : worldwide prevalence of infertility has been reported to be 3-7% of all couples. there are varieties among the results of studies conducted on the prevalence of infertility in iran. the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of infertility using meta-analysis method in iran. methods & materials : we systematically reviewed all published papers in medline database of the na...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of frequency of feeding total mixed ration (tmr) on total-tract digestibility, milk production and composition in lactating cows, using meta-analysis and meta-regression approaches. data of fourteen experiments having containing 25 comparisons between treatment (higher feeding frequency) and control (lower feeding frequency) groups, defined...

conclusions although differences between the two products were very close to each other, they reported similar effects on joint bleeds. further clinical studies should be performed by incorporating a standardized measurement in comparative efficacy of apcc and rfviia. results the mean of bleeding reduction in apcc and rfviia were 71.2% with ci 95% (lower limit 86.8% and upper limit 82%) and 72....

Offshoring characterizes much of the globalization phenomenon last century. However, rapid development automation technologies, combined with disruption Global Value Chains experienced at international level, have put pressure on multinational's decisions regarding location production activities. The ongoing debate effects off(re)shoring movements has gained growing attention. On one hand, a re...