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Well it just so happens I have a Curriculum Vita (CV) research guide as
well.
EMPLOYMENT The Curriculum Vitae
http://guides.temple.edu/c.php?g=134659
as well as a Faculty Credentialing Research Guide
http://guides.temple.edu/FacultyCredentialing
and also a guide to journal ranking within subject fields that is free on
the web and named SCIMAGO
http://guides.temple.edu/journal-citation-ranking
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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http://workface.com/e/daviddillard
Net-Gold
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html
https://groups.io/org/groupsio/Net-Gold/archives
http://net-gold.3172864.n2.nabble.com/
Temple University and Google Sites Research Guides
http://tinyurl.com/ngda2hk
OR
https://sites.google.com/site/researchguidesonsites/
RESEARCH PAPER WRITING
http://guides.temple.edu/research-papers
EMPLOYMENT
http://guides.temple.edu/employment-guide
INTERNSHIPS
http://guides.temple.edu/employment-internships
PUBLIC HEALTH RESOURCES INCLUDING EBOLA
http://guides.temple.edu/public-health-guide
STATISTICS SOURCES RESEARCH GUIDE
http://guides.temple.edu/statistics-sources
Social Work and Social Issues Discussion Group
https://groups.io/g/social-work
SPORT-MED
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Paul Elias Alexander wrote:
> I do not know what CV is? But I would ask the question this way and I have 2 answers:
> why do we perform SRs and/or meta-analyses?
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> It functions as the only explicit, transparent, systematic method to bring together a large body of
> evidence to address a focused question. The issue is to unify the evidence base on a question but to do so
> systematically and openly so that what you did is reproducible and readers can then judge if your review
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> We do meta-analyses ('if' we can pool the individual studies as we may not be able to) to:
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> Improve the precision (95% CIs) around the summary point estimate (some say to increase power as you are
> increasing the number of studies, sample size, and number of events). Importantly, it allows us to
> evaluate effects in subgroups of patients (sub-group and/pr sensitivity analyses).
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> In collating the body of evidence, you can then apply the GRADE methods which is a systematic and explicit
> approach to making judgements about the quality or certainty (or confidence) in the underlying estimates
> of effect e.g. we make the judegement based on an assessment of the risk of bias for included studies
> (randomization, allocation concealment, blinding, selective reporting, severe baseline imbalance, early
> stopping for benefit etc.), precision of estimate, consistency of estimates, directness (applicability of
> the evidence to your patient or population) and publication bias.
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> All of your points are v good too but the systematic manner and transparency and explicitness of the
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> From: Jon Brassey <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 1:41 AM
> Subject: Why do we do systematic reviews?
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> Hi All,
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> I've been involved in 'EBM' for nearly twenty years and one question that I struggle with is the reason
> for doing a systematic review. Over the years I've collected the following reasons:
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> 1.To know if an intervention has any ‘worth’.
> 2.To quantify, quite tightly, how good the intervention is.
> 3.To understand the adverse events associated with the intervention.
> 4.To see what has been done before, to see if new research is needed.
> 5.To improve the CV.
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> I'd be really interested to hear if I've missed anything obvious or if you feel some of the reasons are
> more valid than others. I've created a poll at
> http://rapid-reviews.info/2015/12/03/why-do-we-do-systematic-reviews/ so I'd really appreciate people's
> input on this.
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> Best wishes
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> jon
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> Jon Brassey
> Trip Database
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