The 20th Summary Post

Zhelnov P. The 20th summary post. Zheln. 2020 Nov 25;48(1):s20e8. URI: https://zheln.com/summary/2020/11/25/1/.

Zheln Flow Diagram

This is the Zheln flow diagram, modified from the PRISMA 2020 Statement preprint by Matthew Page et al. and the SRflowdiagram tool by Neal Haddaway.

Zheln Systematic Reviews

• There are 378 recent systematic review records on Zheln. They are added daily, most of them were published this fall, and each of them is counting as a true positive by Shojania & Bero 2001 criteria for systematic reviews.
• These records came from my Replicated Systematic Subset PubMed query retrieving most systematic reviews being published in peer-reviewed international health care journals.
• As this is tens of thousands of records a month, I’m currently struggling to process random 10% of Zheln records daily. Follow appraisal progress using my open performance metrics below.
• I’m also tagging the records with AMA specialty tags taken from the AMA Physician Masterfile specialty list, so you can browse appraisals by AMA Specialty.
• Browsing by PubMed-indexing date is under development—see how it looks like for Oct 30, Oct 31, Nov 10, Nov 13, Nov 20, Nov 21, or Nov 22 records.
• Otherwise, you can watch Zheln records on the YouTube channel for Zheln (currently, Oct 31 and Nov 10 video summaries are available).

List of Included Studies

As a rule, I select a review for full appraisal when the topic covered is likely to have a very large practice impact with regard either to both global health care workers and the public or to the minorities. Also, crowdfunding an appraisal is possible.

1. New Literacy in Omics Sciences
2. New Mindfullness Mobile Apps in Europe
3. New Transcranial AC Stimulation
4. New Equity in Virtual Health Care
5. New USPSTF on Pediatric HTN Screening
6. New Respiratory Virus Sampling
7. New Climate Change & Pregnancy AEs
8. New Supplements for Pregnancy HTN
9. New VA/DoD Low Back Pain Guideline
10. New Meds for (Meth)amphetamine Use
11. New Sport After Youth Trauma
12. New Lifestyle & Prostate Cancer
13. New Martial Arts & Mental Health
14. New Compassion for Self-Esteem
15. New E-Cigs & Metabolic Syndrome
16. New Biodegradation of Plastics
17. New Schoolbag Weight & Back Pain
18. New Massive Diabetes Prevention
19. New Attitudes & Eating Behavior
20. What is the effect of physical exercise on executive function in adults older than 55 years of age?
21. What are the therapeutic options for Gulf War Illness?
22. How important the concept of homesickness is?
23. What are the fetal outcomes of opioid detoxification in pregnancy?
24. What are the outcomes of acetaminophen v. ibuprofen for fever or pain in children under two years old?
25. Is quality and safety of hospital care different in outlying patients?
26. How effective is a combination of alpha-blockers and PDE5-inhibitors for lower urinary tract symptoms?
27. Is it good and safe to allow mother and baby skin-to-skin contact during a cesarian?
28. What interventions are there to manage diabetes in homeless adults?
29. What use are mindfulness-based interventions for mental symptoms of Parkinson’s disease?
30. What progress has been made to date in terms of universal influenza vaccines?
31. How effective are interventions to improve antibiotic-prescription behavior among PCPs?
32. What are the reports of practical use of national guidelines on movement in Canada and similar countries?
33. What evidence is there to support active break policies in elementary schools?
34. What is known regarding policy to address pediatric suicidality?
35. How important is postural control in Down syndrome?
36. What works for at-risk mental states?
37. What is the effect of ticagrelor monotherapy after PCI?
38. How good is social accountability for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health?
39. What is in the American Psychiatric Association guideline on schizophrenia?
40. Crowdfunded How effective are tooth decay prevention measures in children six years old or younger?
41. How good is C-reactive protein measurement with regard to health outcomes?
42. What is the association between sugar-free gum and dental caries?
43. How big is the impact of perinatal care systems on infant mortality?
44. How effective is empathy training in health care education?
45. What are the current therapeutic applications of human mesenchymal stem cells?
46. How useful is patient blood management to improve outcomes of major surgery?
47. What is the effectiveness of eHealth interventions for improving public health?
48. What is the risk of congenital malformations associated with beta-blocker use in early pregnancy?
49. How effective behavioral weight-loss interventions in diabetes are?

Reports Wanted

I had selected these systematic reviews for full appraisal, but their full texts were unavailable to me. Please contact me if you wish to help procuring them.

1. New Ethics of Familial Genetic Testing
2. How good is the uptake of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in low- and middle-income countries?
3. What are the outcome predictors of Parent Management Training for child conduct problems?
4. What is the role of a Registered Dietitian in weight management?
5. How effective are anti-amyloid-β drugs for Alzheimer’s disease?
6. How is homelessness experienced by transgender people?
7. How useful is physical exercise for people living with breast cancer?

My Performance Metrics

• Work Schedule
• Worked-Time Target
• Appraisal Log

What’s Next?

Get Back for the Next Summary Post on Sat, Nov 28

• Appraisals are not going well because assigning short titles and specialty tags to all appraised records is a tedious activity and also for the reasons already named.
• This is why I’m going to assign short titles to the records selected for full appraisal only. Also, I’m going to finally start full appraisals.
• As to the rest of the records, I’m going to assign them tags taken from the newly-developed tag list (not published yet). AMA specialty tags will have to be dropped.
• In the end, I’m going to review all these records in videos recorded daily. In addition, I have already got enough content to record the Nov 13, Nov 20, Nov 21, and Nov 22 videos, so I’m going to do this too.
• As to the full-featured academic protocol for Zheln and the Zheln nonprofit business plan, I’m not ready to write up these yet as Zheln production process is still unstable. Current methods are available from the Zheln methods repository.

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