Category: Systematic review
Systematic reviews are the cream of the research crop. Those who understand their value thrive at an opportunity to learn more about them.
Annual Blog Review 2021
Review 2021 stories of learning, discovery, and innovation from this year. Here you can find a summary of all posts in one place, enjoy! Thank you for following my blog this year. (more…)
Improving opioid agonist care continuation, meta-analysis
Improving opioid agonist care continuation remains to be a challenge for many community based addiction treatment organizations. Research into effective strategies has used both randomized and non-randomized designs. Is there any difference in treatment dropout between these different study types? (more…)
This changed my practice
Can We Identify Patients at Risk for Opioid Use Disorder when Beginning Opioid Analgesics for Pain from New or Ongoing Non-cancer Causes?
There is growing recognition that opioid prescribing can lead to prescription opioid use disorder (OUD). It is estimated that nearly 115,000 British Columbians have become addicted to opioids. There is a need to safely reduce the volume of new opioid prescriptions for opioid naïve patients. read more…
Finding good endpoints for diagnostic test accuracy reviews on substance use
Diagnostic test accuracy reviews increasingly are being used in substance use research, yet the majority of the studies considered in these reviews do not account appropriately for the primary endpoints of interest. (more…)
Can stimulants treat stimulant use disorder?
This ‘systematic overview of reviews’ assembled the evidence for stimulant use disorder treatments from the systematic reviews of literature.