A Brief Guide to Performing Review and Meta-analysis of Rare Diseases, Procedures, and Other Low Frequency Pathology

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Update of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2020 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Acute Limb Ischaemia in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Based on a Scoping Review of the Literature

Vincent Jongkind et al.

Summary: This study conducted a scoping review on how patients with COVID-19 are affected by acute limb ischaemia (ALI) and evaluated the recommendations of the 2020 ESVS ALI Guidelines for these patients. The results showed that the epidemiology of ALI has changed during the pandemic, but the recommendations of the ESVS ALI Guidelines remain valid.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY (2022)

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European Society for Vascular Surgery Clinical Practice Guideline Development Scheme: An Overview of Evidence Quality Assessment Methods, Evidence to Decision Frameworks, and Reporting Standards in Guideline Development

George A. Antoniou et al.

Summary: The development of health guidelines is becoming increasingly sophisticated and systematic, with critical steps including the assessment of evidence certainty, the use of evidence to decision frameworks, and the employment of health guideline reporting tools to ensure methodological rigor and transparency.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY (2022)

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Systematic Reviews of the Literature Are Not Always Either Useful Or the Best Way To Add To Science

Janet T. Powell et al.

Summary: The different types of reviews and their applications are described in this article, with examples relevant to vascular surgery being provided.

EJVES VASCULAR FORUM (2022)

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