[PDF] Top 20 Prognostic factors in non surgically treated sciatica: A systematic review

... of sciatica with one study using self-reported symptoms, and only 4 studies requir- ing radiological confirmation of disc ...a prognostic factor and do not allow for com- parison of results between ... See full document

... These systematic reviews represent the best attempts to integrate evidence of prognostic factors to date, [6,8] but the findings are compromised because authors of some primary studies report ... See full document

... In this review, there was only one study that con- ducted prespecified subgroup analysis, and its report- ing was difficult to interpret. The authors concluded that the moderator was significantly associated with ... See full document

... this review identified several potentially modifi- able prognostic factors in chronic ...the review findings also indicate that the evidence is ...potential prognostic factors; ... See full document

... present review are the sensitive lit- erature search and our systematic approach to the se- lection, risk of bias assessment, and the best-evidence ...reported prognostic factors and existing ... See full document

... A systematic review will be conducted of available prospective longitudinal studies of adult mild traumatic brain injury-related ...the systematic review is to describe the course of mild ... See full document

... the prognostic factor, patient type or outcome; moreover, including large numbers of studies in a meta-analysis may lend a spurious robustness to the overall pooled estimate but do little in terms of informing ... See full document

... various factors are considered to be related to the incidence and chronicity of acute whiplash injury, it is important to distinguish between risk factors for acute whiplash and prognostic ... See full document

... available prognostic biomarkers could assist us in identifying high-risk patients to determine the best treatment options and further improve the prognosis of the ...tory factors have to be related to ... See full document

... of prognostic studies can be difficult especially in case of incomplete reporting and diversity of terminology ...excluding non- English ...used. Prognostic factors studied once were not ... See full document

... [3,4]. Sciatica is associated with more severe pain and disability than is low back pain alone ...for sciatica vary between studies, depending on the inclusion criteria and outcome measures ...for ... See full document

... for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Statement issued in 2009 ...the prognostic role of thrombocytosis on survival outcomes in patients with cervical cancer from the inception of the databases up to ... See full document

... a prognostic indi- cator of colorectal cancer, but they misapplied risk ratio (RR), a specific measure for evaluating prospective studies, to the analysis of retrospective studies, so the findings should be ... See full document

... chart review of patients with unresectable locally advanced NSCLC, trea- ted with chemo-radiotherapy at Stony Brook University from January 2007 to December ... See full document

... In this study, the age of the enrolled patients ranged from 29 to 76 years, with a median age of 52 years. It has been reported that patients younger than 35 years old were more susceptible to local recurrence or distant ... See full document

... The main data we extracted from the literature included the following: first author, year of publication, source of patients, number of patients, stage, EGFR mutation rate, KRAS muta- tion rate, KRAS mutation state, EGFR ... See full document

... worldwide. Non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) accounts for 80 – 85% of all lung cancer ...risk factors, such as poor histologic differentiation, vascular invasion, wedge resection, tumors >4 cm, ... See full document

... than non-pregnant women of the same ...Many factors were associated with the quality of life in pregnant ...Some factors associ- ated with higher well-being were socio-demographic (first-time ... See full document

... the review were assessed independently by the authors using CASP ...this review is that only English language publications were included therefore there might be options which have not been ...this ... See full document

... the prognostic value of clinicopathological factors including preop- erative tumor ...simultaneously. Factors that showed prognos- tic significance (P < ...nostic factors (HR ... See full document