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Emerging Therapeutic Potential of Nanoparticles in Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials
Published in Raj Bawa, János Szebeni, Thomas J. Webster, Gerald F. Audette, Immune Aspects of Biopharmaceuticals and Nanomedicines, 2019
Minnie Au, Theophilus I. Emeto, Jacinta Power, Venkat N. Vangaveti, Hock C. Lai
This systematic review was performed in accordance to the Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement [38]. The study protocol can be found on the PROSPERO international prospective register of systematic review (PROSPERO 2015: CRD42015020009). Briefly, a literature search to identify studies investigating the use of nanoparticles in the management of pancreatic cancer was conducted. The Embase (1980), MEDLINE (1966), SCOPUS (1996), Web of Science (1965), and Cochrane Library databases (1992) were searched from inception to March 2016 with no language restrictions. Search terms applied included: “nanoparticles” OR “nanomedicine,” [Title/Abstract] AND “pancreatic cancer management” OR “pancreatic cancer therapy,” AND/OR “clinical trials” OR “clinical studies” OR “human participants.” Titles and abstracts were independently screened by two authors (M.A and J.P) to identify possibly relevant studies. The full texts for articles that appear ambiguous were assessed to determine their suitability for inclusion. Database searches were supplemented by scanning the reference lists of included studies and employing the related articles function in PubMed. Subsequently, the full texts of all potentially eligible studies were evaluated in detail for inclusion by the two authors. Discrepancies were resolved at a consensus meeting between the two authors. If the two authors failed to reach a consensus, a third author (T.I.E.) was involved in making a final decision.
Emergency Department Design in Response to Pandemics
Published in AnnaMarie Bliss, Dak Kopec, Architectural Factors for Infection and Disease Control, 2023
The authors adopted systematic review guidelines from “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)” (Moher et al., 2009). The search followed the PRISMA flowchart and included identification, eligibility, screening, and publications. Relevant articles were found through PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, and PubMed central database. Several keywords and search terms were used together in various combinations, such as emergency department, emergency room, emergency center; facility design, physical design, physical environment, built environment; communicable disease, infectious disease, pandemic, epidemic, Zika virus, SARS, MERS, Ebola, influenza, and COVID-19.
The Modulation of IL-6 Levels by Natural Products in Arthritis-Like Animal Models
Published in Parimelazhagan Thangaraj, Lucindo José Quintans Júnior, Nagamony Ponpandian, Nanophytomedicine, 2023
Fabiolla R.S. Passos, Marilia M. Rezende, Sathiyabama R. Gandhi, Bruno A.F. Silva, Andreza G.B. Ramos, Irwin R.A. Menezes, Parimelazhagan Thangaraj, Lucindo José Quintans Júnior, Jullyana S.S. Quintans
The systematic review was performed according to the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) (Moher et al., 2009). We conducted searches of the databases PubMed, Scopus, Embase and Web of Science using the descriptors “natural products” and “interleukin6”. The search was performed in April 2021. The main objective of this systematic review was to find articles with animal models of arthritis that had investigated the role of NPs in the modulation of cytokine IL-6.
Down to the Rabbit Hole: How Gamification is Integrated in Blockchain Systems? A Systematic Literature Review
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Mouna Denden, Mourad Abed, Victor Holotescu, Ahmed Tlili, Carmen Holotescu, Gabriela Grosseck
A systematic review study is a very important step to provide an overview of the area to be studied, allow the discovery of research gaps and trends, and collect evidence for future research directions (Rethlefsen et al., 2021; Denden et al., 2022). This study presents a systematic review of the published articles related to gamification and blockchain-based systems. Particularly, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed to produce this systematic review (Page et al., 2021). PRISMA provides a standard peer accepted methodology that uses a guideline checklist, which was strictly followed in this article. This systematic review includes four phases reported by Petersen et al. (2008, 2015) and de Paula Porto et al. (2021), namely: (1) motivation for conducting a systematic review and the research questions to be answered; (2) search and screening of studies; (3) coding scheme and data extraction; and (4) reporting the results. Each of the phases is detailed in the following subsequent sections.
Human mobility and COVID-19 transmission: a systematic review and future directions
Published in Annals of GIS, 2022
Mengxi Zhang, Siqin Wang, Tao Hu, Xiaokang Fu, Xiaoyue Wang, Yaxin Hu, Briana Halloran, Zhenlong Li, Yunhe Cui, Haokun Liu, Zhimin Liu, Shuming Bao
We followed the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement to select articles and to report the findings. PRISMA statement is a guideline developed to support researchers to conduct systematic reviews (Moher et al. 2009). We applied the checklist of PRISMA with the items to report in a systematic review and a flow diagram indicating the workflow of selecting articles in a systemic review (Moher et al. 2009). We commenced with searching through the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection of all the published articles between January 2020 to September 2020 to cover the most recent publications with the topic of human mobility and COVID-19. WoS is the most widely used and authoritative database of research publications and citations. WoS Core Collection Coverage includes more than 20,900 journals plus books and conference proceedings from various disciplines (Birkle et al. 2020). The searching terms we used are ‘((COVID-19 OR “novel coronaviruses” OR 2019-nCov OR SARS CoV-2) AND (“human mobility” OR “human movement” OR “population flow” OR “social distanc*” OR “physical distanc*” OR “travel restriction” OR “movement control” OR “stay-at-home” OR “lockdown” OR “shelter-in-place”))’.
The influence of fatigue on decision-making in athletes: a systematic review
Published in Sports Biomechanics, 2020
Thomas Gus Almonroeder, Sarah Marie Tighe, Taylor Matthew Miller, Christopher Ray Lanning
Our preliminary literature search and additional hand searching identified 183 unique articles. Eight articles were retained and read in full following our screening process. Of these articles, three were excluded because they did not investigate the combined effects of fatigue and decision-making. The remaining five articles were included in our review. Figure 1 includes a flow diagram based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) recommendations (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff, Altman, & Group, 2009). Table 1 includes a summary of the key features of the studies included in this review (sample characteristics, movement analysed, nature of the fatigue protocol and outcomes of interest). Table 2 includes the Downs & Black scores.