Hi Ibrahim,
Grade is a good tool and looks more complicated than it is. You can report without the software and Goldet and Howick have written an excellent paper on Grade. EPPI reviewer and the Cochrane software RevMan both automate this tool.
Goldet G, Howick J. Understanding GRADE: an introduction. J Evid Based Med 2013;6:50–4. doi:10.1111/jebm.12018
For results I would look at times they measured pain,where they measured it positionally, whether it was dichotomous (yes/no) or like happy face/sad face or a sliding scale, there are also cultural differences in what people express as pain so for example in US almost no-one says 0 pain but will put 2 on the scale I think mainly because they pay for health visits and none gets reimbursed or offered future care for a 0 but the is a guess. Since the result are heterogeneous you just do this in a narrative way to say what happened.
If you need the paper I cited please email me and I will send it
Best
Amy
On 1/7/16, 6:24 AM, "Evidence based health (EBH) on behalf of Ibrahim Ethem YAYLALI" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thank you very much. I am downloading the reference right now..Thank you very much for that.
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