background & aim : the number of cancer patients has been continuously increasing due to early diagnosis and the developments in cancer treatment. this has led to an increase in psychosocial problems associated with the diagnoses and treatment of cancer. loneliness is emphasized to be one of the most frequently observed psychological symptoms in cancer patients. personal and external factors th...

background: the most common symptoms experienced by women are hot flashes are around the time of menopause. many women are interested in herbal medicines because of fear of side effect of hormone therapy. objective: in this study, we seek to assess the effectiveness of herbal medicine on the recurrence of hot flash in menopausal women. methods: the database of medline, scopus, and the cochrane ...

introduction: in recent years, a few studies have been conducted in the area of the cost-effectiveness of the eplerenone; it's notable that coherent and clear evidence are not available. therefore, this study aimed to systematically review studies of cost-effectiveness of eplerenone in the treatment of cardio-vascular patients. methods: this systematic review study was conducted in 2016. t...

background: there is a great deal of descriptive studies on obesity in iran, mostly assessed the prevalence and its relation­ship with various risk factors and chronic diseases. in order to obtain/give a better insight into the epidemiology of obesity in iran in recent years and assess its heterogeneity around the country, we reviewed systematically all available studies and ana­lyzed their fin...

background: hot flashes are the most common symptoms experienced by women around the time of menopause. many women are interested in herbal medicines because of fear of side effects of hormone therapy. objective: the aim of this systematic review was to assess the effectiveness of iranian herbal medicines in alleviating hot flashes. materials and methods: medline (1966 to january 2015), scopus ...

Evidence-based reviews of published literature can be subject to several biases. Grey literature, however, can be of poor quality and expensive to access. Effective search strategies also vary by topic and are rarely known in advance. This paper complements a systematic review of the published literature on the costs and effects of expanding immunization services in developing countries. The qu...

This article presents a thematic analysis of the research evidence on assessment feedback in higher education (HE) from 2000 to 2012. The focus of the review is on the feedback that students receive within their coursework from multiple sources. The aims of this study are to (a) examine the nature of assessment feedback in HE through the undertaking of a systematic review of the literature, (b)...

The Internet of Things’ potential for major privacy invasion is a concern. This paper reports on a systematic literature review of privacy-preserving solutions appearing in the research literature and in the media. We analysed proposed solutions in terms of the techniques they deployed and the extent to which they satisfied core privacy principles. We found that very few solutions satisfied all...

There is an extensive research literature on servitisation and the related field of product service systems that has emerged independently from different fields including engineering, management, design and environmental studies. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a structured literature review to explore, identify and synthesise the multidisciplinary research challenges in the journey tow...