to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on controlled treatment trials of meta-cognitive therapy (mct) for anxiety disorders, studies were included if they employed controlled methodology and treated people above 18 years with anxiety disorders. case studies (with less than 4 cases) and single case designed studies were excluded. a comprehensive literature search identified 15 trials f...

Background: Disasters are medically defined as events in which the demands for patients’ care far exceed the available resources. In such situations, triage and rationing of limited resources are inevitable. A decision regarding triage needs not only scientific guidelines but also an ethical framework and supporting policies. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of the criteria for...

CONTEXT Systematic reviews of the literature are an important resource for clinicians. Unfortunately, the few published strategies for identifying these articles involve MEDLINE interfaces not widely available outside of academic medicine. In addition, the performance of these strategies is unknown. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a search strategy for identifying systematic reviews by usin...

OPUS is a branch and bound search algorithm that enables efficient systematic search through spaces in which the order in which the search operators are applied is not significant. OPUS achieves this by maximising the effect of each pruning action. While it is not possible to guarantee in the general case that any pruning shall occur, when pruning is possible, its effect is maximised. Experimen...

BACKGROUND An up-to-date systematic review is important for researchers to decide whether to embark on new research or continue supporting ongoing studies. The aim of this study is to examine the time taken between the last search, submission, acceptance and publication dates of systematic reviews published in nursing journals. METHODS Nursing journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports were...