A PRISMA flow diagram is a visual representation of the study selection process in a systematic review or meta-analysis. PRISMA flow charts help improve transparency, methodological quality, and reporting in these types of studies, making it easier for a
Adopting a perspective of potential founding leaders seeking to establish a new medical school to address workforce shortages/maldistributions and health inequities in medically under-served areas, we posed a series of hypothetical questions: How do founding teams go about the complex process of establi...
Additional file 2. Search strategy for PubMed (Medline) database. Additional file 3. PRISMA flow chart. Additional file 4. RAMESES II reporting standards for realist evaluation. Rights and permissions Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,...
Prisma flow chart Full size image The remaining samples of 141 articles were carefully read. The final inclusion criteria were that the paper (1) compared monopolistic and licensed systems in terms of their potential to prevent harm and (2) gave either an empirical or an argumentative result reg...
PRISMA flow diagram Full size image Representation Geographic representation Studies reviewed tended to be conducted in high-income countries (i.e. Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States), and covered rural and urban areas but this distinction was not clearly reporte...
During these three steps we found a total of 557 studies published before 2015 that met our inclusion criteria (the whole selection process is imaged in Supplement 2 according to PRISMA guidelines [42]). After an identification search including the databases listed above and additional references ...
PRISMA flow chart. Full size image In total, 823 papers were identified once duplicates were removed. Abstracts of these studies were screened for studies that were empirical evaluations of a past or existing national-level JUG initiative. To be classed as an empirical evaluation studies must have...
Physiotherapy is effective to reduce pain and improve the quality of life of people living with chronic pain. To offer high-quality physiotherapy services, these services must be patient-centred and respond to patients’ needs. However, few studies seem
The papers presenting cost-effectiveness were also read by DM given his experience as a Health Economist performing and reviewing cost-effective analysis and any disagreements discussed. The Kappa coefficient of agreement was also calculated. The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews ...
PRISMA flow chart; article selection process for question 1 Full size image Fig. 2 PRISMA flow chart; article selection process for question 2 Full size image Elements of the informal curriculum applicable in a family medicine context (Q1) ...