Community-Augmented Meta-Analyses: Toward Cumulative Data Assessment.

Cristia Community - Augmented Meta - Analyses : Toward Cumulative Data Assessment

Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice toward Vectors Control Programs among Managers of the Schools in Neka, Iran

Abstract Background and purpose:Vector-borne diseases such as Malaria and Leishmaniasis are still a public health problem in Iran. One of the effective ways to prevent of these diseases is to improve the vector control program. We carried out this study for assessment managers of school knowledge, attitude and practice regarding vector control programs. Materials and Methods:A cross-sectional s...

MetaLab: A Repository for Meta-Analyses on Language Development, and More

MetaLab is a growing database of meta-analyses, shared in a github repository and via an interactive website. This website contains interactive tools for community-augmented metaanalyses, power analyses, and experimental planning. It currently contains a dozen meta-analyses spanning a number of phenomena in early language acquisition research, including infants’ vowel discrimination, acoustic w...

Assessment of publication bias in meta-analyses of cardiovascular diseases.

OBJECTIVE To examine variables related with publication bias assessment in a sample of systematic reviews with meta-analysis on cardiovascular diseases. DESIGN Systematic review of meta-analyses. SETTING Journals indexed in Medline and the Cochrane Library. STUDY POPULATION 225 reviews with meta-analysis published between 1990 and 2002. DATA COLLECTION Data from meta-analyses were gathe...

Evaluating cumulative risk assessment for environmental justice: a community case study.

A key feature of cumulative risk assessment (CRA) is the ability to estimate differential health risks from environmental exposures within populations. Identifying populations at increased risk from environmental exposures is the first step toward mitigating such risks as required by the fair treatment mandate of environmental justice. CRA methods remain under development except for a limited a...