Mental health services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in high-income countries: protocol for a rapid review by Yu Fu, Dawn Craig, Ge Yu

“…Study selection and data extraction will be undertaken independently by two reviewers. Evidence will be summarised narratively and in a logic model.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval is not required for this review. …”
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A scoping review of Deaf awareness programs in Health professional education. by Julia Terry, Rhian Meara

“…This scoping reviewed showed evidence of promising benefits for health professional students undertaking Deaf awareness programs during their undergraduate education. …”
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Purpose, subject matter and objectives of forensic medicine by O. S. Moiseyenko

“…To do this, forensic physicians use methods of body examination, evidence collection and expert analysis. It has been generalised that forensic medical examination as a subject of forensic medicine is a scientific and practical research carried out by specially trained specialists with the aim of providing an objective assessment of medical issues in cases brought before a court. …”
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Pharmacological Therapy of Gastroesophageal Reflux in Preterm Infants by Luigi Corvaglia, Caterina Monari, Silvia Martini, Arianna Aceti, Giacomo Faldella

“…This review mainly aims to draw the state of the art regarding the pharmacological management of GER in preterm infants, analyzing the best piecies of evidence currently available on the most prescribed anti-reflux drugs. …”
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Clinical effectiveness and implementation outcomes of pMDI-to-DPI switch in children between 5 and 12 years of age: a scoping review protocol by Nick Sevdalis, Nick Watts, Amanda Zain, Alston Z Y Ng, Inez Yeo

“…Despite being licensed for use in ages 5 years old and older, the evidence for clinical effectiveness is less clear for patients between ages 5 and 12 years. …”
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Association of cognitive reserve with stroke outcome: a protocol for a systematic review by Laura Gallucci, Roza M Umarova

“…Qualitative and quantitative findings will be summarised and, if possible, data will be synthesised using appropriate meta-analytical methods. The quality of evidence will be assessed using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation framework.Ethics and dissemination No ethical approval is required as it is a protocol for a systematic review and the data used will be extracted from published studies. …”
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Nigerian newspapers coverage of suicide: Assessment of adherence to WHO suicide reporting guidelines by Ibe Ben Onoja, Success Emmanuel Unekwu Ojih, Patience Ojonile Onoja, Nelson Monday Onoja, Paul Bebenimibo, Shedrack Egbunu Akor

“…Context: Despite an increase in research evidence on media compliance with suicide reporting guidelines globally, evidence from Nigeria seems to be relatively limited. …”
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p38δ MAPK: Emerging Roles of a Neglected Isoform by Carol O’Callaghan, Liam J. Fanning, Orla P. Barry

“…Interestingly, disparate roles for p38δ MAPK in tumour development have also recently been reported. Thus, we consider evidence which characterises p38δ MAPK as both a tumour promoter and a tumour suppressor. …”
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Phylogenomic and mitogenomic data can accelerate inventorying of tropical beetles during the current biodiversity crisis by Michal Motyka, Dominik Kusy, Matej Bocek, Renata Bilkova, Ladislav Bocak

“…Conservation efforts must be evidence-based, so rapid and economically feasible methods should be used to quantify diversity and distribution patterns. …”
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Severe Disabling Myalgia as an Initial Presentation of Polyarteritis Nodosa by H. M. Senarathna, C. L. Fonseka, H. A. S. Perera, P. U. T. De Silva, T. P. Weerarathna

“…His skin and muscle biopsies showed evidence of vasculitis. His renal and mesenteric artery CT angiogram revealed stenosed segment of the celiac artery without evidence of visible aneurysms elsewhere. …”
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Identification of Ocular and Auditory Manifestations of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Mbingo by Imran Jivraj, Chris J. Rudnisky, Emmanuel Tambe, Graham Tipple, Matthew T. S. Tennant

“…Serological evidence of rubella infection was obtained using standardized IgG antibody titers. …”
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Quality Assessment of Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management and Surgical Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence by Mario Vásquez-Peralta, Alison Simancas-Racines, Juan Marcos Parise-Vasco, Camila Montesinos-Guevara, Daniel Simancas-Racines

“…Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are tools developed to support evidence-based decision making in healthcare. However, despite the availability of CPGs for the surgical management of female stress urinary incontinence (FSUI), their methodological quality has not been evaluated. …”
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Synbiotics in caries prevention: A scoping review. by Mohammed Nadeem Bijle, Manikandan Ekambaram, Edward C M Lo, Cynthia Kar Yung Yiu

“…The scoping review aimed to examine the evidence on the role of synbiotics in caries prevention. …”
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Protective effect of exercise on animals with sepsis: a systematic review of the existing literature by Na Yang, Nan Jiang, Chunming Shen, Ming Gao, Qian Tong, Jian Sun

“…However, in preclinical studies, there was no systematic evidence to summarize the effects of exercise training on sepsis. …”
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The patterns, trends and major risk factors of suicide among Indian adolescents-A scoping review protocol. by Rachel Elizabeth Senapati, Jayashree Parida, Jagatdarshi Badamali, Susangita Jena, Pranita Patsani, Arpita Panda, Swati Sukalyani Behera, Abinash Pradhan, Prashant Kumar Singh, Bijaya Kumar Mishra, Prasanna Kumar Patra, Sanghamitra Pati, Harpreet Kaur, Subhendu Kumar Acharya

“…This study will be limited to English language and electronically available evidence.…”
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Denoising Graph Inference Network for Document-Level Relation Extraction by Hailin Wang, Ke Qin, Guiduo Duan, Guangchun Luo

“…We then devise a slide residual attention to highlight word-level evidence on text and SG. Finally, the classification is established on the SG to infer the relations of entity pairs. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review of the Epidemiology, Health-Related Quality of Life Impact, and Economic Burden of Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy by Christina Soeun Kwon, Patrick Daniele, Anna Forsythe, Christopher Ngai

“…**Introduction:** This systematic literature review analyzed published evidence on IgA nephropathy (IgAN), focusing on US epidemiology, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and economic burden of illness. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Prompt Treatment on Malaria Prevalence in Children Aged below Five Years in Zambia: A Nested Case-Control Study in a Cross-Sectional Survey by Mukumbuta Nawa

“…We found borderline evidence which suggests that prompt treatment of malaria cases even in high endemic areas has potential to reduce the risk of malaria by almost half in the short term.…”
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Prediction of Europium Retention in Perovskite: Potential Candidates for an Engineering Barrier in the Disposal of Radioactive Waste by Huemantzin B. Ortiz-Oliveros, Rosa Ma. Flores Espinosa, Pedro Ávila-Pérez, Daniel Cruz-Gonzalez, Noureddine Ouerfelli

“…Likewise, the evidence suggests that 50 kg of tausonite would have the capacity to retain at least 26.59 g of alpha-emitting radionuclides, equivalent to a waste package (900 kg) with a maximum activity of 4000 Bq/g.…”
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Cost-effectiveness of Public Health Strategies on COVID-19 Control: A Systematic Review by Ajaree Rayanakorn, Siew Lian Leong, Pattaranai Chaiprom, Shaun Wen Huey Lee

“…A wide range of public health interventions (PHIs) have been implemented to control the virus, with many aggressive measures that led to economic downturn and social calamity. However, evidence concerning their impacts in terms of costs and benefits of the best buy strategy is limited. …”
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