Use of tocilizumab and sarilumab alone or in combination with corticosteroids for covid-19: systematic review and network meta-analysis

Autor: Gordon Guyatt, Bram Rochwerg, Tahira Devji, Dena Zeraatkar, Anila Qasim, Thomas Agoritsas, Francois Lamontagne, Ariel Izcovich, Assem M Khamis, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Elena Kum, Reed Alexander Cunningham Siemieniuk, Juan Pablo Díaz Martínez, Per Vandvik, Ellen Cusano, Sophia Mangala, Jessica Julia Bartoszko

Publikováno v: BMJ Medicine, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2022)

Objective To compare the effects of interleukin 6 receptor blockers, tocilizumab and sarilumab, with or without corticosteroids, on mortality in patients with covid-19.Design Systematic review and network meta-analysis.Data sources World Health Organ

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/5775ef6048c44dc4a2d4d37d5c020436

Cough symptom severity in patients with refractory or unexplained chronic cough: a systematic survey and conceptual framework

Autor: Elena Kum, Gordon H. Guyatt, Tahira Devji, Yuting Wang, Layla Bakaa, Lucy Lan, Eva Liu, Alexander Mastrolonardo, Rachel Couban, Paul M. O'Byrne, Imran Satia

Publikováno v: European Respiratory Review, Vol 30, Iss 161 (2021)

Background Cough severity represents an important subjective endpoint in assessing the effectiveness of therapies for patients with chronic cough. Although cough-specific quality of life questionnaires exist, a widely available cough severity instrum

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/39f77f706fe045dbaea918e22ad23248

An extension minimal important difference credibility item addressing construct proximity is a reliable alternative to the correlation item

Autor: Yuting Wang, Tahira Devji, Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Anila Qasim, Qiukui Hao, Elena Kum, Niveditha Devasenapathy, Madeleine T. King, Berend Terluin, Caroline B. Terwee, Michael Walsh, Toshi A. Furukawa, Yasushi Tsujimoto, Gordon H. Guyatt

Publikováno v: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 157, 46-52. Elsevier USA
Wang, Y, Devji, T, Carrasco-Labra, A, Qasim, A, Hao, Q, Kum, E, Devasenapathy, N, King, M T, Terluin, B, Terwee, C B, Walsh, M, Furukawa, T A, Tsujimoto, Y & Guyatt, G H 2023, ' An extension minimal important difference credibility item addressing construct proximity is a reliable alternative to the correlation item ', Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 157, pp. 46-52 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.001

Objectives: Minimal important difference (MID), the smallest change or difference that patients perceive as important, aids interpretation of change in patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) scores. A credibility instrument that assesses the methodo

Externí odkaz: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::930fc8736035ca656dceb74b8b0b48ac
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.001

A step-by-step approach for selecting an optimal minimal important difference

Autor: Yuting Wang, Tahira Devji, Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Madeleine T King, Berend Terluin, Caroline B Terwee, Michael Walsh, Toshi A Furukawa, Gordon H Guyatt

Publikováno v: BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 381. BMJ Publishing Group
Wang, Y, Devji, T, Carrasco-Labra, A, King, M T, Terluin, B, Terwee, C B, Walsh, M, Furukawa, T A & Guyatt, G H 2023, ' A step-by-step approach for selecting an optimal minimal important difference ', BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol. 381, e073822, pp. e073822 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-073822

Researchers have proposed that the minimal important difference (MID), the smallest change or difference that patients perceive as important, could aid the interpretation of patient reported outcomes measure (PROM) scores. When multiple MIDs for a gi

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https://research.vumc.nl/en/publications/9ee81db4-8c4f-47bb-82d2-67375419e721

Minimal important changes in standard deviation units are highly variable and no universally applicable value can be determined

Autor: Yasushi Tsujimoto, Tomoko Fujii, Yusuke Tsutsumi, Yuki Kataoka, Aran Tajika, Yohei Okada, Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Tahira Devji, Yuting Wang, Gordon H. Guyatt, Toshi A. Furukawa

Publikováno v: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 145:92-100

[Objectives] This study aims to describe the distribution of anchor-based minimal important change (MIC) estimates in standard deviation (SD) units and examine if the robustness of such estimates depends on the specific SD used or on the methodologic

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.01.017