Long-term sickness absence and incapacity benefits (disability pension) rates have
increased across industrialised countries. Effective measures are needed to support return …

Guideline development requires the synthesis of evidence on several treatments of interest,
typically by using network meta-analysis (NMA). Because treatment effects may be …

Background It is increasingly accepted that insufficient attention has been given to the
patient health outcomes that are important to measure in comparative effectiveness research …

Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is an idiopathic generalised epilepsy characterised by
absence seizures manifested by transitory loss of awareness with 2.5–4 Hz spike–wave …

In order to assess the chloride channel gene CLCN2 as a candidate susceptibility gene for
childhood absence epilepsy, parametric and non-parametric linkage analysis was …

A previous study of 34 nuclear pedigrees segregating juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME)
gave significant evidence of linkage with heterogeneity to marker loci on chromosome …

Objective Collaboration between groups can facilitate the development of high-quality
guidelines. While collaboration is often desirable, misunderstandings can occur. One …

Abstract Objectives Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are often created through
collaboration among organizations. The use of inconsistent terminology may cause poor …

Objective To assess the reliability of treatment recommendations based on network meta-
analysis (NMA). Study Design and Setting We consider evidence in an NMA to be potentially …

Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is an idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE)
characterised by onset of typical absence seizures in otherwise normal children of school …