Tools for reviewing the medical literature

Question 1

What are national clinical trials Number (nct)

Answer 1

a unique identifier # assigned by clinical trials.gov once research protocol is submitted priot to sutdy initiation

Purpose reduce publication bias

Question 2

What is clinical trials.gov ?

Answer 2

Is an international committee of medical journal editors

offer up to date information for locating interventional studies

Question 3

What is a consort ?

Answer 3

• Is a randomized interventional trials.
• CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials
• Design extensions for :
  
  • Non-inferiority trials
  • Equivalence Trials
  • Cluster Trials
• Design extensions
  
  • Pragmatic trials
    
    • Broadly defined defined as randomized, controlled trial whose purpose is to inform descisions about clinical pratice
      
      • a philosphy as continuum not a diachotomy
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Question 4

What is Prisma?

Answer 4

• Systematic reviews of multiple randomized trials
• Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Question 5

What is strobe?

Answer 5

• Observational Studies (cohort, case control, cross sectional)
• STrenthening the Reporting of OBservationa Studies in Epidemology
• Molecular Epidemiology Studies (Strobe-Me)
• Genetic Association Studies (strega)
  
  • Strengthing the REporting of Genetic Association Studies

Question 6

What is the trend?

Answer 6

trend - Transparent Reporting Evalutions with Non-randomized Designs of behavioral and public health interventiaons

Question 7

What Is GRIPs?

Answer 7

Genetcs Risk Prediction studies

Genertc RIsk Prediction Studies

Question 8

What is stard ?

Answer 8

Diagonositic Studies

STAndards for the Reporting of DIagnostic Accuracy Studies

Question 9

What is QUADRAS 2 ?

Answer 9

• SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS of multiple diagnostics studies
• QUality Assessment of studies of DIanostic Accuracy in Systematic Reviews