In general, none of the interventions reliably improved adherence to amblyopia treatment (specifically patching) in children. The interventions investigated also showed no evidence of improvement in ...

How accurate is the 'HADS-A' questionnaire in detecting anxiety disorders in adults?

Women cannot always breastfeed after birth. Reasons may be because the infant dies or is adopted, or the mother is too ill, or for the well being of the mother or infant. HIV-positive mothers, ...

• In women with predicted high response (meaning their ovaries are expected to produce many eggs in response to stimulation, which increases the risk of complications such as OHSS), using human ...

Premature babies often need help breathing as their lungs are not fully developed. Nasal breathing support (through the nose) helps premature babies breathe without the need for breathing tubes in the ...

Phosphate binders are often prescribed with meals for people with kidney disease to reduce the uptake of phosphate in food.

Group nouns can use either a single or plural form of the verb, but the choice should be consistent within each Cochrane review or document; for example, 'the government has ...' or 'the government ...

Traditionally the passive voice has been used by scientists and medical professionals on the basis that what happened was considered to be more important than who did it. However, use of the passive ...

RevMan automatically creates a new paragraph when the ‘Enter' or 'Return' key is pressed once, so, there is no need to include a blank line between paragraphs. The spacing between paragraphs in RevMan ...

Avoid using ‘and/or’ as it is not explicit. Try rephrasing the sentence; for example, 'fever and/or headache …' to 'fever or headache, or both …'. 'And/or' may be acceptable where rephrasing would ...

The three bibliographic databases generally considered to be the most important sources to search for reports of trials are CENTRAL (Noel-Storr et al 2020), MEDLINE (Halladay et al 2015, Sampson et al ...

The Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods have produced a virtual issue of methods and statistics tutorials for systematic reviewers. This series provides easily accessible advice to the evidence ...