New resources 1) The recording from the last Methods Support Unit web clinic, "Handling heterogeneity in Cochrane reviews", is available on the Cochrane Training website. 2) Members of Rapid Reviews published the four first articles of a series focusing on general Rapid Review Methods in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 3) Members of Patient Reported Outcomes reported the results of a survey of Cochrane reviews' approaches to calculate and interpret pooled estimates of patient-reported outcome measures in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 4) Members of Prognosis evaluated the presence and frequency of spin practices and poor reporting standards in studies on machine learning-based prediction models in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 5) Members of Prospective Meta-Analysis describe the challenges of collating individual participant data to resolve controversies around cord clamping in Seminars in Perinatology. 6) Members of GRADEing participate in developing a glossary of terms related to collaboration in guideline development, published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 7) Members of Bias commented on actual access to individual patient-level data from randomised clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic in JAMA. 8) Members of Economic participate in reviewing the cost-effectiveness of interventions to limit the spread of healthcare-associated infections in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 9) Members of Equity, Qualitative and Implementation, and Non-Randomised Studies introduce the protocol for developing a global and Indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline in International Journal for Equity in Health. 10) Members of Rapid Reviews report the results of a Delphi survey on the most promising areas and methods to improve systematic reviews' production and updating in Systematic Reviews. 11) Members of Adverse Effects participate in developing a framework to distinguish between asset-based and deficit-based community studies in public health, published in Health Promotion International. 12) Members of Equity participate in a commentary addressing differences in terminology regarding evidence synthesis methodologies that address broad research questions in Systematic Reviews. 13) Members of Screening and Diagnostic Tests discuss how to critically appraise and interpret systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy studies in Radiology. 14) Members of Qualitative and Implementation comment on the adherence to journal eligibility criteria for trial reports and the AllTrials standards in submitted trial reports in the Journal of Clinical Nursing. 15) Members of Adverse Effects measure the impact of zero-cases studies in evidence synthesis practice using the harms index and benefits index in BMC Medical Research Methodology. 16) Members of GRADEing update previous GRADE guidance addressing inconsistency and interpreting subgroup analyses in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 17) Members of Patient Reported Outcomes introduce an extension minimal-important difference credibility item addressing construct proximity as an alternative to the correlation item in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
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