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Direct-indirect confusion of this kind explains about half of the systematic false positives in the Ecoli1 network, and more than half in the other 100-node networks.
Literature searches for half of the systematic reviews (n = 1,584, 49%) were conducted within the last five years.
Indeed, it is estimated that more than half of the systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library have not been updated for at least two years.
14 Similarly, Bruno et al 15reported that about half of the systematic reviews and meta-analyses used STROBE inappropriately, as a methodological quality assessment tool.
Our citation analysis showed that most of the observational studies used STROBE as a guideline for reporting, whereas about half of the systematic reviews and meta-analyses used STROBE inappropriately, as a methodological quality-assessment tool.
For each specialty and subspecialty we calculated, separately, the number of journals that would need to be read to locate all the randomised trials and systematic reviews as well as the number to locate half of the randomised trials and half of the systematic reviews (which we designate the J50 value).
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Despite this, only around half of these systematic reviews incorporated the risk of bias assessment into the interpretation of the results in the abstract or conclusions of the systematic review.
Just about half of the 114 systematic reviews examined had assessed the methodological quality of included studies; 91 different quality assessment tools were identified.
2 For such data we follow Parsons, Pattison & Flack (2012 ▶) in writing where s(h) and Δ s(h) are the average and half-difference of the systematic errors in reflections I obs(h) and I obs remaining after the application of a multi-scan correction.
One should pay attention to the findings that in 70% of the EPPCs the GPs work alone for at least some of the time during opening hours, and that less than half of the EPCCs have systematic training regarding violence against personnel.
Data on weight were taken from the latest reported time in each trial, which was at seven year follow-up for the single largest study, the Women's Health Initiative, which included over half of the participants in the systematic review.
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