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EVIDENCE BASE UPDATE Evidence Base Update for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Evidence Base for Strabismus & Amblyopia

A review of ophthalmology surgical and non-surgical interventions for intermittent exotropia conducted for the Cochrane Database (Hatt and Gnanaraj, 2006) concluded that the available medical literature consists mainly of retrospective case reviews which are difficult to reliably interpret and analyse. The one randomised trial included found unilateral surgery more effective than bilateral surg...

Acute Pancreatitis : Evidence Base Management

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreas, with variable involvement of other regional tissues or remote organ systems. Its overall mortality is approximately 10-20%. There is a wide variation of the disease severity, ranging from mild, self-limiting disease, which is recovered within 3-5 days without morbidity to severe, life-threatening disease which carries mor...

Assessing the Evidence Base Series Recovery Housing: Assessing the Evidence

Objective: Recovery housing is a direct service with multiple components that provides supervised, short-term housing to individuals with substance use disorders or co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. It commonly is used after inpatient or residential treatment. This article describes recovery housing and assesses the evidence base for the service. Methods: Three of the authors sea...

Mixed methods research: expanding the evidence base.

74 Introduction ‘Mixed methods’ is a research approach whereby researchers collect and analyse both quantitative and qualitative data within the same study. 2 Growth of mixed methods research in nursing and healthcare has occurred at a time of internationally increasing complexity in healthcare delivery. Mixed methods research draws on potential strengths of both qualitative and quantitative me...