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  1. Reducing antibiotic exposure to combat antimicrobial resistance: rethinking use, packaging, and dispensing practices
  2. Barriers to mental health services for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder in Brazil: protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis and citizen panel (BARRIER-Free-BR Project)
  3. Comprehensive framework for prioritisation of health technologies for updating of essential medicines list to primary healthcare engaging stakeholders: a mixed-methods study protocol
  4. Electronic data sources for drug utilization research and healthcare decision-making in Mexico
  5. Developing an evidence brief for policy on implementing deprescribing practices across different levels of healthcare: a protocol
  6. Como a mídia brasileira retrata o uso de antidepressivos? Uma análise qualitativa das reportagens da Folha de São Paulo (2019-2023)
  7. Instruments for assessing healthcare professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding deprescribing: a scoping review protocol
  8. Factors associated with complications related to the use of peripherally inserted central venous catheter in hospitalized children: a case-control study, Sorocaba, Brazil, 2018-2022
  9. Fatores associados a complicações relacionadas ao uso de cateter venoso central de inserção periférica em crianças hospitalizadas: estudo caso-controle, Sorocaba, 2018-2022
  10. Recalculation of the budgetary impact of risperidone use for Autism Spectrum Disorder: a case study using measured demand data, Brazil, 2017-2019
  11. Recálculo do impacto orçamentário da risperidona para uso no transtorno do espectro autista: estudo de caso com dados de demanda aferida, Brasil, 2017-2019
  12. Cannabis Use During Adolescence and Young Adulthood and Academic Achievement
  13. Protocol for a Series of Systematic Reviews and Network Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials of Medications for Patients with Overactive Bladder Symptoms
  14. Screening instruments for mental disorders in primary healthcare: a scoping review protocol (SCREENING-MD)
  15. Preemptive oral analgesia with steroidal and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in periodontal surgery: a systematic review
  16. Rates of adverse events of antiretroviral therapy in women living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  17. Consumption of antibiotics in Brazil - an analysis of sales data between 2014 and 2019
  18. Recommendations of Clinical Practice Guidelines for the treatment of urinary incontinence in women: A methodological survey
  19. A Cross-National Comparison of Biosimilars Pricing in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Italy
  20. Mapeamento das iniciativas implementadas em instituições públicas para abordar a judicialização da saúde no Brasil: revisão sistemática de escopo
  21. Biosimilars approvals by thirteen regulatory authorities: A cross-national comparison
  22. Budget Impact Analysis of Risperidone Use and Adverse Event Monitoring in Autism Spectrum Disorder in Brazil: Assessment of Theoretical Versus Real Data
  23. Editorial: Women in pharmacoepidemiology: 2021
  24. E-Health technologies for treatment of depression, anxiety and emotional distress in person with diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  25. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome drug treatment in countries with different income profiles: a scoping review
  26. Increase in veterinary prescriptions of azithromycin during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
  27. Pharmaceutical policies: effects of policies regulating drug marketing
  28. Use of second-generation antipsychotics in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
  29. Sales trends of psychotropic drugs in the COVID-19 pandemic: A national database study in Brazil
  30. Correction: Factors Associated with the Magnitude Of acUpuncture treatment effectS (FAMOUS): a meta-epidemiological study of acupuncture randomised controlled trials
  31. Analysis of relationship of psychosocial factors with patient safety culture in a Brazilian hospital: Study with structural equation modeling analysis
  32. Critical appraisal and comparison of recommendations of clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of schizophrenia in children and adolescents: a methodological survey
  33. Drug utilization research in Peru: Is real-world data available?
  34. Autorização para uso off-label pode não ser benéfica para o Sistema Único de Saúde
  35. Incorporation and use of medicines in the Brazilian Unified National Health System: changes and risks of new Ministry of Health legislation
  36. Incorporação e uso de medicamentos no Sistema Único de Saúde: mudanças e riscos com os novos atos normativos do Ministério da Saúde
  37. Use of atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia in the Brazilian National Health System: a cohort study, 2008-2017
  38. Varenicline for Tobacco-Dependent Adults Who Are Not Ready to Discontinue Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  39. Predictors of Persistent Post-Surgical Pain Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies
  40. Antimicrobial resistance of microorganisms present in periodontal diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  41. Tratamento e desfecho dos casos de Síndrome Inflamatória Multissistêmica em Crianças acompanhadas em um hospital Universitário de referência do Rio de Janeiro
  42. Public sector implementation strategies to approach the judicialization of health care: a systematic review protocol
  43. Factors Associated with the Magnitude Of acUpuncture treatment effectS (FAMOUS): a meta-epidemiological study of acupuncture randomised controlled trials
  44. Extended Duration Treatment of Tobacco Dependence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  45. ABCDE and ABCDEF care bundles
  46. Changes in the Profile of Antibiotic Prescriptions by Dentists in Brazil during the Pandemic
  47. Editorial: Evidence for Assessing Drug Safety and Drug Use in Older People
  48. Approaches to prioritising primary health research: a scoping review
  49. Efficacy and costs of nanocrystalline silver dressings versus 1% silver sulfadiazine dressings to treat burns in adults in the outpatient setting: A randomized clinical trial
  50. Design and validity of an instrument to assess healthcare professionals’ perceptions, behaviour, self-efficacy and attitudes towards evidence-based health practice: I-SABE
  51. Consumption Trends of Antibiotics in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  52. Sex differences and adverse events of antiretrovirals in people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
  53. Editorial: New Horizons in Health-Promoting: From Methods to Implementation Science
  54. Data Sources for Drug Utilization Research in Brazil—DUR-BRA Study
  55. Evidence for Assessing Drug Safety and Drug Use in Older People
  56. Efficacy and safety of repellents marketed in Brazil against bites from Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus: A systematic review
  57. GLP-1 and GIP receptor agonists in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease: Translational systematic review and meta-analysis protocol of clinical and preclinical studies
  58. Healthcare professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and practices toward deprescribing: a protocol of cross-sectional study (Desmedica Study—Brazil)
  59. Local anaesthetics combined with vasoconstrictors in patients with cardiovascular disease undergoing dental procedures: systematic review and meta-analysis
  60. Gender differences in the use of atypical antipsychotics in early-onset schizophrenia: a nationwide population-based study in Brazil
  61. Switching Between Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Patients with Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder: 10-Year Cohort Study in Brazil
  62. Data transparency for building a stronger healthcare system: A case study from Argentinean administrative drug utilization data sources
  63. Quality of Life and Functioning of People With Mental Disorders Who Underwent Deinstitutionalization Using Assisted Living Facilities: A Cross-Sectional Study
  64. Improving Care for Deinstitutionalized People With Mental Disorders: Experiences of the Use of Knowledge Translation Tools
  65. Strategies to Approach Medicines Litigation: An Action Research Study in Brazil
  66. Risks of Adverse Neonatal Outcomes in Early Adolescent Pregnancy Using Group Prenatal Care as a Strategy for Public Health Policies: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Brazil
  67. Use of corticoids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: Systematic review and network meta-analysis
  68. Potentially inappropriate prescriptions to Brazilian older people with Alzheimer disease
  69. Treatment of urinary incontinence: a critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines with the AGREE II instrument
  70. Feasibility of De-Escalation Implementation for Positive Blood Cultures in Patients With Sepsis: A Prospective Cohort Study
  71. Effectiveness and safety of oral sedation in adult patients undergoing dental procedures: a systematic review
  72. Anais do V International Workshop on Rational Use of Medicines.
  73. Frequency and Severity of Adverse Drug Reactions to Medications Prescribed for Alzheimer’s Disease in a Brazilian City: Cross-Sectional Study
  74. Severe Potential Drug-Drug Interactions and the Increased Length of Stay of Children in Intensive Care Unit
  75. Pharmaceutical policies: effects of policies regulating drug marketing
  76. Authors of clinical trials seldom reported details when declaring their individual and institutional financial conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional survey
  77. Factors associated with thrombocytopenia in patients with dengue fever: a retrospective cohort study
  78. Critical appraisal and comparison of recommendations of clinical practice guidelines for treatment of schizophrenia in children and adolescents: a methodological survey protocol
  79. Potential impact of missing outcome data on treatment effects in systematic reviews: imputation study
  80. Editorial: New Horizons in Health-Promoting Technologies: From Development to Rational Use
  81. Strategies Implemented by Public Institutions to Approach the Judicialization of Health Care in Brazil: A Systematic Scoping Review
  82. Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco-Dependent Adults. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
  83. Challenges facing drug utilization research in the Latin American region
  84. Meta-Analyses Proved Inconsistent in How Missing Data Were Handled Across Their Included Primary Trials: A Methodological Survey
  85. Use of IMMPACT domains in clinical trials of acupuncture for chronic pain: A methodological survey
  86. Biosimilar monoclonal antibodies for cancer treatment
  87. Management of type 2 diabetes using non‐insulin glucose‐lowering therapies: a critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines with the AGREE II instrument
  88. Knowledge Translation for Improving the Care of Deinstitutionalized People With Severe Mental Illness in Health Policy
  89. Medicinal plant extract associated with bacterial cellulose membrane: Antibacterial activity and physicochemical properties
  90. New Horizons in Health-Promoting Technologies: From Development to Rational Use
  91. Effect of mushrooms on obesity in animal models: study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
  92. Reduction of Red and Processed Meat Intake and Cancer Mortality and Incidence
  93. Development and validation of a questionnaire for the assessment of the knowledge, management and reporting ADR in paediatrics by healthcare teams (QUESA-P)
  94. Kawasaki Disease and the Use of the Rotavirus Vaccine in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  95. Administrative Data Linkage in Brazil: Potentials for Health Technology Assessment
  96. Propensity Score Methods in Health Technology Assessment: Principles, Extended Applications, and Recent Advances
  97. Adverse Events in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis Receiving Long-Term Biological Agents in a Real-Life Setting
  98. Paraquat and Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
  99. Bleeding Risk in Patients Using Oral Anticoagulants Undergoing Surgical Procedures in Dentistry: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  100. Critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines for treatment of urinary incontinence
  101. Herbal medications for anxiety, depression, pain, nausea and vomiting related to preoperative surgical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
  102. Late adverse effects related to treatment in a cohort of survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer
  103. ABCDE and ABCDEF care bundles: A systematic review protocol of the implementation process in intensive care units
  104. Potentially missing data are considerably more frequent than definitely missing data: a methodological survey of 638 randomized controlled trials
  105. Antibiotic Prophylaxis in the Management of Open Fractures
  106. Opioids for Chronic Noncancer Pain
  107. Obesity: A New Adverse Effect of Antibiotics?
  108. The relationship between job satisfaction, burnout syndrome and depressive symptoms
  109. Resistance profile to antimicrobial agents in the main circulating bacteria isolated from acute periodontal and endodontic infections in Latin America (MICROBE- DENT)
  110. Use of steroid and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
  111. Systematic reviews do not adequately report or address missing outcome data in their analyses: a methodological survey
  112. Patent foramen ovale closure, antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulation in patients with patent foramen ovale and cryptogenic stroke: a systematic review and network meta-analysis incorporating complementary external evidence
  113. Healthcare professionals’ behavior, skills, knowledge and attitudes on evidence-based health practice: a protocol of cross-sectional study
  114. Long-term benzodiazepine use in patients taking antidepressants in a public health setting in Brazil: a cross-sectional study
  115. Reporting of Financial and Non-financial Conflicts of Interest in Systematic Reviews on Health Policy and Systems Research: A Cross Sectional Survey
  116. Effectiveness and safety of oral sedation in adult patients undergoing dental procedures: protocol for a systematic review
  117. Policy Change and the National Essential Medicines List Development Process in Brazil between 2000 and 2014: Has the Essential Medicine Concept been Abandoned?
  118. Bleeding risk in patients using oral anticoagulants submitted to surgical procedures in dentistry: a systematic review protocol
  119. Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for elderly people taking antidepressant: comparative tools
  120. Local anaesthetics combined with vasoconstrictors in patients with cardiovascular disease undergoing dental procedures: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
  121. Characteristics of funding of clinical trials: cross-sectional survey and proposed guidance
  122. Oral herbal medicines marketed in Brazil for the treatment of osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  123. Use of IMMPACT domains in clinical trials of acupuncture for chronic pain: a protocol for a methodological survey
  124. A systematic survey of the methods literature on the reporting quality and optimal methods of handling participants with missing outcome data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials
  125. A systematic survey on reporting and methods for handling missing participant data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials
  126. Inhalation versus intravenous anaesthesia for adults undergoing on-pump or off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
  127. Authors of clinical trials reported individual and financial conflicts of interest more frequently than institutional and nonfinancial ones: a methodological survey
  128. Herbal medications for surgical patients: a systematic review protocol
  129. Systematic survey of randomized trials evaluating the impact of alternative diagnostic strategies on patient-important outcomes
  130. Essencialidade e racionalidade da relação nacional de medicamentos essenciais do Brasil
  131. Effects of different phosphate lowering strategies in patients with CKD on laboratory outcomes: A systematic review and NMA
  132. Adverse drug reactions among patients admitted with infectious diseases at a Brazilian hospital
  133. A very low number of national adaptations of the World Health Organization guidelines for HIV and tuberculosis reported their processes
  134. Reporting of financial and non-financial conflicts of interest by authors of systematic reviews: a methodological survey
  135. Long-term Impact of Mode of Delivery on Stress Urinary Incontinence and Urgency Urinary Incontinence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  136. Brazilian oral herbal medication for osteoarthritis: a systematic review protocol
  137. Access to medicines for diabetes treatment in Brazil: evaluation of “health has no price” program
  138. Cinacalcet versus standard treatment for chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  139. Gap Between Official Guidelines and Clinical Practice for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis in São Paulo, Brazil
  140. Factors Associated with the Combined Use of Antidepressants and Benzodiazepines in Major Depression: A Case-Control Study
  141. Prescrição de benzodiazepínicos para adultos e idosos de um ambulatório de saúde mental
  142. Women's values and preferences and health state valuations for thromboprophylaxis during pregnancy: A cross-sectional interview study
  143. Antibiotics and Breastfeeding
  144. Analysis of analgesic, antipyretic, and nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drug use in pediatric prescriptions
  145. Analysis of analgesic, antipyretic, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in pediatric prescriptions
  146. Culprit vessel versus immediate complete revascularization in patients with ST-segment myocardial infarction—a systematic review
  147. Essential psychiatric medicines: wrong selection, high consumption and social problems
  148. Reporting of IMMPACT-recommended core outcome domains among trials assessing opioids for chronic non-cancer pain
  149. Women’s Values and Preferences for Thromboprophylaxis during Pregnancy: A Comparison of Direct-choice and Decision Analysis using Patient Specific Utilities
  150. Elenco de medicamentos do Programa Farmácia Popular do Brasil e a Política de Nacional Assistência Farmacêutica
  151. Effects of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Patients with Open Fracture of the Extremities
  152. Vitamin D and respiratory infections
  153. Assessment of Brazilian pharmacists’ knowledge about antimicrobial resistance
  154. Impact of missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes on pooled effect estimates in systematic reviews: a protocol for a methodological study
  155. NifedipineversusTerbutaline, Tocolytic Effectiveness and Maternal and Neonatal Adverse Effects: A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Trial
  156. Culprit Vessel Only vs Immediate Complete Revascularization in Patients With Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  157. Biological drugs for the treatment of psoriasis in a public health system
  158. Patient reports of the frequency and severity of adverse reactions associated with biological agents prescribed for psoriasis in Brazil
  159. Brazilian medicinal plants to treat upper respiratory tract and bronchial illness: systematic review and meta-analyses—study protocol
  160. Shorter or longer anticoagulation to prevent recurrent venous thromboembolism: systematic review and meta-analysis
  161. Adherence to guidelines in the use of biological agents to treat psoriasis in Brazil
  162. Systematic review of percutaneous closure versus medical therapy in patients with cryptogenic stroke and patent foramen ovale
  163. Systematic Review of Observational Studies Assessing Bleeding Risk in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Not Using Anticoagulants
  164. Analgésicos, antipiréticos e anti-inflamatórios não esteroides em prescrições pediátricas
  165. Opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: a protocol for a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
  166. Pharmacological characterization of Solanum cernuum Vell.: 31-norcycloartanones with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties
  167. Bleeding Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Patients Taking Vitamin K Antagonists: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  168. Evaluation of the prescription and use of antibiotics in Brazilian children
  169. Non-aspirin Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs for the Primary Chemoprevention of Non-gastrointestinal Cancer: Summary of Evidence
  170. Efectos adversos de los productos biológicos: Un metanálisis de redes y resumen cochrane
  171. Cernumidine and isocernumidine, new type of cyclic guanidine alkaloids from Solanum cernuum
  172. Análise técnica para a tomada de decisão do fornecimento de medicamentos pela via judicial
  173. Adverse effects of biologics: a network meta-analysis and Cochrane overview
  174. Level of patient information on antibiotic use
  175. Uso racional de medicamentos antineoplásicos e ações judiciais no Estado de São Paulo
  176. Nível de conhecimento dos cirurgiões-dentistas de São José dos Campos sobre o uso de anti-inflamatórios não esteróides
  177. Perfil de prescrições e uso de antibióticos em infecções comunitárias
  178. TRATAMENTO ANTIMICROBIANO DAS INFECÇÕES DO TRATO URINÁRIO EM CRIANÇAS
  179. TRATAMENTO ANTIMICROBIANO DAS INFECÇÕES DO TRATO URINÁRIO EM CRIANÇAS
  180. Antineoplastic 31-Norcycloartanones from Solanum cernuum Vell
  181. Uso de placebo em experimentos clínicos envolvendo seres humanos no Brasil
  182. Utilização de um sistema de gerenciamento de benefícios farmacêuticos (PBM) para a caracterização do perfil de prescrição e aquisição de antibióticos
  183. Peculiaridades do controle da tuberculose em um cenário de violência urbana de uma comunidade carente do Rio de Janeiro
  184. Antiulcerogenic activity of ethanol extract of Solanum variabile (false “jurubeba”)
  185. Acute and subacute toxicity of Cochlospermum regium (Mart. & Schr.) Pilger
  186. Estudo comparativo dos efeitos do nimesulide e do acido acetilsalicilico sobre auto-hemostasia em ratos