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Optimum management for complex anal fistula: A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Published 2024-03-01“…A forest plot and league table were used to present the results. Results: A total of 19 studies containing 15 interventions, 1844 subjects, and 104 pairwise comparisons were analyzed quantitatively. …”
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Is Physical Performance a Differentiating Element between More or Less Successful Football Teams?
Published 2019-09-01“…These findings provide valuable information about the physical demands of the running requirements according to their final position in the league table.…”
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Anastomosis selection in liver transplantation for recipients with unusable recipient hepatic arteries: a bayesian network meta-analysis
Published 2024-03-01“…This NMA used the BUGSnet package in R studio and the results were presented in a Forest plot, league table, and SUCRA plot. Results Among the 13 studies included in this NMA, 5 arteries were used for the anastomoses. …”
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Incorporating neck circumference or neck-to-height ratio into the GOAL questionnaire to better detect and describe obstructive sleep apnea with application to clinical decisions
Published 2022-10-01“…The performance of the six screening tools was assessed by discriminatory ability [area under the curve (AUC) obtained from receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves] and a 2 × 2 league table [including sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), positive likelihood ratio (LR+), and negative likelihood ratio (LR−)] and compared under AHI ≥5/h, AHI ≥15/h, and AHI ≥30/h conditions.ResultsA total of 288 patients were enrolled in the study. …”
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Global health education in U.K. universities
Published 2021-09-01“…Methods: Universities selected were the top 25 recipients of MRC funding in 2015–2016, as well as universities who were included in previous iterations of the “Global Health League Table”. We used the Consortium of Universities for Global Health “GHE Competencies Toolkit” to identify the presence of global health content across university global health and other course offerings. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Lifestyle-Related Interventions for the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer: A Rapid Review
Published 2020-02-01“…Comparisons were performed on the cost-effectiveness ratio per quality-adjusted life-year between the interventions using a league table, and the likelihood of cost-effective interventions for breast cancer primary prevention was analyzed.Results: Six studies were selected. …”
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The Basketball warms-ups - theoretical assumptions and practical solutions
Published 2017-06-01“…The team was ranked in the top five of the 2014/2015 league table. The standardized observation method was used in the study. …”
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The Basketball warms-ups - theoretical assumptions and practical solutions
Published 2017-06-01“…The team was ranked in the top five of the 2014/2015 league table. The standardized observation method was used in the study. …”
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National- to port-level inventories of shipping emissions in China
Published 2017-01-01“…Moreover, this study provides detailed emission inventories for 24 ports in the country, which also greatly contributes to our understanding of global shipping emissions, given that eight of these ports rank within the top twenty of the port league table. Several ports in China suffer emissions 12–147 times higher than those at Los Angeles port. …”
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Measles outbreak in Western Uganda: a case-control study
Published 2021-06-01“…This coverage has been very low and always marked red in the Red categorization (below the national target/poor performing) on the national league table indicators. The aim of this study was to assess the scope of the 2018–2019 measles outbreak and the associated risk factors among children aged 0–60 months in Bugoye sub-county, Kasese district, western Uganda. …”
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Thiazide diuretics alone or in combination with a potassium-sparing diuretic on blood pressure-lowering in patients with primary hypertension: protocol for a systematic review and...
Published 2022-02-01“…Results will be presented as mean or relative risk with credible intervals through a league table. The treatments will also be ranked using the surface under the cumulative ranking curve method. …”
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Interventions to improve the use of systematic reviews in decision-making by health system managers, policy makers and clinicians.
Published 2012“…One RCT evaluated the effect of an analgesic league table, derived from systematic review evidence, and there was no statistically significant effect on self-reported pain. …”
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The Basketball warms-ups - theoretical assumptions and practical solutions
Published 2017-11-01“…The team was ranked in the top five of the 2014/2015 league table.</p><p>The standardized observation method was used in the study. …”
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The unintended consequences of quantifying quality: does ranking school performance shape the geographical concentration of advantage?
Published 2022“…We find that the introduction of league tables was associated with an increase in the geographical concentration of occupational class. …”
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How to make a silk purse from a sow's ear--a comprehensive review of strategies to optimise data for corrupt managers and incompetent clinicians.
Published 2003“…The introduction of performance league tables for UK surgeons and hospitals has forced them to learn how to present data in the best possible light. …”
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Measuring the performance of public services : principles and practice /
Published 2012“…It describes methods and approaches for measuring performance through time, for constructing and using scorecards, composite indicators, the use of league tables and rankings and argues that data-envelopment analysis is a useful tool when thinking about performance. …”
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Strategic curriculum change : global trends in universities /
Published 2012“…Many universities are reviewing their curricula at an institutional level, aware that they are in a competitive climate in which league tables encourage students to see themselves as consumers and the university as a product, or even a 'brand'. …”
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Students' views and qualification policy development: perspectives on failed vocationally related policies
Published 2013-06-01“…Using the Diploma qualification and inclusion of vocational qualifications as General Certificate of Secondary Education and A level equivalents for league tables as examples, this commentary complements this edition's main articles through exploring why these policies failed, as well as why myriad voices went unheeded.…”
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Engaging our Students in the Learning Process: Some Points for Consideration
Published 2008-01-01“…In a context of mass higher education, increasing diversity of the student population, globalization and the new marketing of education, and increased competition between universities exacerbated by ‘league tables’, it is problematic to define ‘the best learning environment’ for engaging students in the learning process.…”
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Integrity and Quality in Universities: Accountability, Excellence and Success
Published 2015-02-01“…The paper examines evaluation systems and the distorting effects of the incentives some of them create, especially when different metrics are combined in order to rank academic institutions. Such league tables prioritise comparative success rather than excellence, which is not a positional good. …”
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