Blin Nagavci

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Evidence-based guidelines for hypertension and diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review Blin Nagavci1, John L Z Nyirenda1, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1291-5561Bonny E Balugaba2, Jimmy Osuret2, Joerg J Meerpohl1,3, Kathrin Grummich1, Olive Kobusingye2, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6955-9695Ingrid Toews1 1Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2Department of Disease Control and...

This paper is only available as a PDF. To read, Please Download here. Abstract Objective There is little empirical evidence of the impact of pooling randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies (CSs) on the certainty-of-evidence. To evaluate the hypothetical-scenario of pooling bodies-of-evidence from RCTs with matched bodies-of-evidence from CSs on the certainty-of-evidence.