Data sources The reviewers searched Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Collaboration Depressive Anxiety and Neurosis and Schizophrenia Group Controlled Trial Registers, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Biological Abstracts, CINAHL, LILACS, PsycInfo, SIGLE, reference lists, and specialist textbooks. The full search strategy is available at http://image.thelancet.com/extras/ 02art8375webappendix.pdf.

Data sources Studies were identified by searching Medline (1970– 2001), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1974–2001), Biological Abstracts (1985–2001), British Nursing Index (1994–2001), CINAHL (1982–2001), PsycINFO (1970– 2001), Sociological Abstracts (1963–2001), Social Science Citation Index (1994–2001), ASSIA, the Cochrane Library (Issue 3, 2001), the National Research Register (Issue 4, 2001), Disse...

ackground & Aims: Alarm features such as dysphaia, weight loss, or anemia raise concern of an upper astrointestinal malignancy in patients with dyspepia. The aim of this study was to determine the diagostic accuracy of alarm features in predicting maligancy by performing a metaanalysis based on the ublished literature. Methods: English-language studes were identified by searching MEDLINE, EMBAS...

BACKGROUND With the information explosion, the retrieval of the best clinical evidence from large, general purpose, bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE can be difficult. Both researchers conducting systematic reviews and clinicians faced with a patient care question are confronted with the daunting task of searching for the best medical literature in electronic databases. Many have advocate...

Background: Hysterectomy is a common surgery amongst females and is occasionally considered a same-day outpatient surgery. There is a lack of adequate postoperative pain control thus leading to extended use of postoperative opioid use. As a result, in addition to other postoperative side effects, patients suffer from adverse side effects of opioid use, including sedation, respiratory depression...

With increasing numbers of doctoral programs, and a persistent high attrition rate, the need to provide support to PhD students grows. Faculty mentoring is one strategy employed by many doctoral programs to address attrition, although objectives, methods and responsibilities of the mentor role vary. The purpose of this integrative literature review was to synthesize outcomes and characteristics...

Objective: The article presents a focused review of the literature surrounding training methods for addressing the proprioceptive loss and subsequent balance problems that result from inversion ankle sprains. Data Sources: The authors searched the MEDLINE and CINAHL databases for the period 1985 through December 2001 using the key words ankle, ankle sprain, and rehabilitation. Study Selection: ...

A systematic literature review was performed to identify variables promoting consumer health information technology (CHIT) acceptance among patients. The electronic bibliographic databases Web of Science, Business Source Elite, CINAHL, Communication and Mass Media Complete, MEDLINE, PsycArticles, and PsycInfo were searched. A cited reference search of articles meeting the inclusion criteria was...

Background. Increasing intervention in birth continues to be a cause for concern and epidural analgesia is an ever more common intervention. A major influence on rising intervention rates is the complex relationship society has with technology. Influenced by various political and cultural narratives, there has been a tendency to view technological advance as both neutral and superior in the hum...