Publications by authors named "Dingmei Dai"

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the reporting quality and risk of bias of Cochrane individual participant data meta-analyses (IPD-MAs).

Methods: We searched the Cochrane Library and identified the Cochrane IPD-MAs. We used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of individual participant data (PRISMA-IPD) assessed the reporting quality of included Cochrane IPD- MAs, and the Risk Of Bias In Systematic reviews (ROBIS) tool was used to assess the risk of bias.

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Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has become a pandemic that has infected millions of people around the world and brings a tremendous economic burden. There are numerous guidelines for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV/AIDS published in recent years, but the quality of these guidelines is still unknown. Therefore, we conducted this study to evaluate the quality of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV/AIDS published by World Health Organization (WHO) as well as perform a comparison of recommendations between those guidelines.

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic in the world and posed a great threat to people's health. Several meta-analyses have indicated that many comorbidities were associated with increased risk of COVID-19 severity or mortality. The original report also showed that the mortality rate of COVID-19 in breast cancer patients is more dependent on comorbidities than previous radiation therapy or current anti-cancer therapy.

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Objective: We plan to review all published systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) of exercise or sport activities for patients with cancer. The aim of this study is to combine and reanalyze related data and to provide more comprehensive and higher-level evidence.

Methods: We plan to search four English databases and four Chinese databases from inception to June 2019.

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