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Adan G, Neligan A, Nevitt SJ, Bonnett LJ, Sander JW, Marson AG. Prognostic factors predicting an unprovoked seizure recurrence in children and adults following a first unprovoked seizure. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2025; Issue 10. Art. No.:CD013848

Bate S, Fortescue R, Fullwood C, Sperrin M, Simmonds M, Fally M, Hansel J, Miligkos M, Manohar S, Howlett E, Linnell J, Preston A; ICS-RECODE group; Woodcock AA, Singh D, Stewart L, Vestbo J, Mathioudakis AG. Predictors of treatment REsponse to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease: randomised controlled trials individual participant Data re-Evaluation–protocol of the ICS-RECODE individual participant data meta-analysis. BMJ Open 2025;15:e095541

Bergman H, Henschke N, Arevalo-Rodriguez I, Buckley BS, Crosbie EJ, Davies JC, Dwan K, Golder SP, Loke YK, Probyn K, Petkovic J, Villanueva G, Morrison J. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases: a network meta-analysis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2025; Issue 11. Art. No.:CD015364

Caldwell DM, Palmer JC, Webster KE, Davies SR, Hughes H, Rona J, Churchill R, Hetrick SE, Welton NJ. Exploring the moderating effect of control group type on intervention effectiveness in school-based anxiety and depression prevention: findings from a rapid review and network meta-analysis. Prev Sci 2025 Feb 12 [Epub ahead of print]

Corbett MS, Umemneku-Chikere C, Nevitt SJ, Hodgson R, Deng J, Walton MJ, Fulbright H, Yew Tan C, Lachmann R, Churchill R. Enzyme replacement therapy compared with best supportive care for the treatment of Pompe Disease: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2025;20:451.

Evans C, Melton H, Liu Y, Ling RE, Moppett J, Phillips B, Gibson B, Fulbright H, Morgan JE. Do surveillance tests for relapse improve survival after chemotherapy for paediatric acute leukaemia? A systematic review. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2025 Sep 7 [Epub ahead of print]

Fleeman N, Mayer J, Huang Y, Nevitt SJ, Panebianco M, Hill RA, Doherty AJ, Wilson N, Boland P, Clegg AJ, Bilsborough H, Williams EJ, Shaw EJ, Maden M, Kelly R, Marson AG. Service delivery, behavioural, and self-management interventions for children with epilepsy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2025;Issue 10. Art. No.:CD015287

Gleeson D, Corbett M, Choy SP, Jiang T, Lee JYW, Bechman K, Russell MD, Barker JN, Galloway JB, Smith CH, Mahil SK. Prevalence of comorbidity amongst people with palmoplantar pustulosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2025 Jun 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Haigh JE, Patel K, Shepherd L, Heathcote E, Rack S, Betts G, Spurgeon L, Hodgson R, Mistry H, Harrington KJ, Metcalf R. Association of quality of life with mortality in patients with adenoid cystic carcinoma using an internationally-validated QoL questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L). Oral Oncol 2025;168:107584

Hanlon P, Butterly E, Wei L, Wightman H, Almazam SAM, Alsallumi K, Crowther J, McChrystal R, Rennison H, Hughes K, Lewsey J, Lindsay R, McGurnaghan S, Petrie J, Tomlinson LA, Wild S, Adler A, Sattar N, Phillippo DM, Dias S, Welton NJ, McAllister DA. Age and sex differences in efficacy of treatments for type 2 diabetes: a network meta-analysis. JAMA 2025;333:1062-1073

Henschke N, Bergman H, Buckley BS, Crosbie EJ, Dwan K, Golder SP, Kyrgiou M, Loke YK, McIntosh HM, Probyn K, Villanueva G, Morrison J. Effects of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes on community rates of HPV-related disease and harms from vaccination. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2025; Issue 11. Art. No.:CD015363

Hodgson R, Walton M, Fulbright H, Bojke L, Walker R, Llewellyn A, Dias S, Stewart L, Steel D, Lawrenson J, Peto T, Simmonds M. A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of anti-VEGF drugs for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy. Health Technol Assess 2025;29:1-19

James SJ, Lister JE, Adamson J, Hewitt C, Yakimova A, Mott A, Fulbright H, McDaid C. Defining and measuring acceptability of surgical interventions: a scoping review. PLoS ONE 2025;20:e0323738

Jefferson L, Castro Avila A, Uphoff E, Otour I, Siddiqui F, Bloor K. Use of digital technology amongst patients with multiple long-term conditions: a qualitative systematic review. BJGP Open 2025 Oct 8 [Online ahead of print]

Konstantinidis M, Stratton C, Tsokani S, Elliott J, Simmonds M, McGowan J, Moher D, Tricco AC, Veroniki AA. Conducting pairwise and network meta-analyses in updated and living systematic reviews: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth 2025 Jan 23 [Epub ahead of print]

Laurie C, Alonso Coello P, Florez ID, Lê M, Moher D, Sadarangani M, Sundaram ME, Wells G, Wilkinson K, Dwan K, Halperin SA, Nicholls SG, Reeves BC, Sharma Waddington H, Shea B, Brouwers M, Sulis G. The RoB-VE Project: introduction to a methodological initiative to improve risk-of-bias assessment and reporting in vaccine effectiveness research. J Clin Epidemiol 2025 Nov 24 [Epub ahead of print]

Lenells M, Uphoff E, Marshall D, Wilson E, Gustafsson A, Wells MB, Andersson E, Dennis C-L.Breastfeeding interventions for preventing postpartum depression. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2025;Issue 2. Art. No.: CD014833

Lunny C, Higgins JPT, White IR, Dias S, Hutton B, Wright JM, Veroniki AA, Whiting PF, Tricco AC. Risk of Bias in Network Meta-Analysis (RoB NMA) tool. BMJ 2025;388:e079839

Mandrik O, Whyte S, Kunst N, Rayner A, Harden M, Dias S, Payne K, Palmer SJ, Soares MO. Modelling the impact of Multi Cancer Early Detection tests: a review of natural history of disease models. Med Decis Making 2025 Aug 3 [Epub ahead of print]

Morgan JE, Evans C, Phillips RS. Priority setting for supportive care research in children and young people with cancer. Support Care Cancer 2025;33:1068

Murphy P, Griffin S, Fulbright H, Walker S. Are economic evaluations of task shifting too narrow in focus? a rapid review. Pharmacoeconomics 2025 May 23 [Epub ahead of print]

Nejstgaard CH, Sondrup N, Chan AW, Dwan K, Moher D, Page MJ, Shamseer L, Stewart LA, Hróbjartsson A. A scoping review identifies comments suggesting modifications to PRISMA-P 2015. J Clin Epidemiol 2025 Mar 17 [Epub ahead of print]

O'Donnell N, Ellis L, Morgan JE, Gregersen PA, Willard V, Howell D, Phillips B. Psychosocial interventions to improve wellbeing in teenage and young adult post-treatment survivors of childhood cancer: a systematic review. Psychooncology 2025;34:e70081

Ojha S, Mitchell EJ, Johnson MJ, Gale C, McGuire W, Oddie S, Hall SS, Meakin G, Anderson J, Partlet C, Su Y, Johnson S, Walker KF, Ogollah R, Mistry H, Naghdi S, Montgomery A, Dorling J; FEED1 collaborative. Full exclusively enteral fluids from day 1 versus gradual feeding in preterm infants (FEED1): a open-label, parallel-group, multicentre, randomised, superiority trial. Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2025 Oct 17 [Eub ahead of print]

Phillippo DM, Remiro-Azócar A, Heath A, Baio G, Dias S, Ades AE, Welton NJ. Effect modification and non-collapsibility together may lead to conflicting treatment decisions: a review of marginal and conditional estimands and recommendations for decision-making. Res Synth Methods 2025;16:323-49

Phillips R, Fisher BT, Ladas EJ, Patel P, Robinson PD, Dupuis LL, Ammann RA, Beauchemin MP, Carlesse F, Castagnola E, Davis BL, Efremov K, Elgarten CW, Groll AH, Haeusler GM, Koenig C, Morris A, Santolaya ME, Spinelli D, Tissing WJE, Wolf J, Sung L, Lehrnbecher T. Use of food restrictions to prevent infections in paediatric patients with cancer and haematopoietic cell transplantation recipients: a systematic review and clinical practice guideline. EClinicalMedicine 2025;81:103093

Raine G, Khouja C, Khatwa M, Fulbright H, Sutcliffe K, Sowden AJ. Grief, bereavement and prolonged grief disorder: scoping and mapping the evidence. BJPsych Open 2025;11:e149

Richardson M, Lorenc T, Sutcliffe K, Sowden A, Thomas J. Best evidence toolkits: a case study on interventions for preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG). Syst Rev 2025;14:112

Rodgers M, South E, Harden M, Whitehead M, Sowden A. Contextual factors in systematic reviews: understanding public health interventions in low socioeconomic status and disadvantaged populations. Arch Public Health 2025:13;83:153

Russo M, Nevitt S, Santarelli D, Eldabe S, Duarte RV. Systematic review and meta-analysis of conventional medical management in a patient population with refractory chronic pain suitable to receive a spinal cord stimulation system. Pain Med 2025;26:337–47

Shoesmith E, Hall S, Sowden A, Stevens H, Pervin J, Riga J, McMillan D, Mills D, Clarke C, Wu Q, Gibsone S, Ratschen E. Dog-assisted interventions for children and adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental conditions: systematic review. Br J Psychiatry 2025 April 14 [Epub ahead of print]

Simmonds M, Llewellyn A, Walker R, Fulbright H, Walton M, Hodgson R, Bojke L, Stewart L, Dias S, Rush T, Figueira JP, Sivaprasad S, Lawrenson JG, Peto T, Steel D. Anti-VEGF drugs compared with laser photocoagulation for the treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. Health Technol Assess 2025 Apr 2 [Epub ahead of print]

Simmonds M, Walton M, Hodgson R, Llewellyn A, Walker R, Fulbright H, Bojke L, Stewart L, Dias S, Rush T, Lawrenson J, Peto T, Steel D. Anti-VEGF drugs compared with laser photocoagulation for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy: a systematic review and economic analysis. Health Technol Assess 2025 May 7 [Epub ahead of print]

Singh J, Anwer S, Palmer S, Saramago P, Thomas A, Dias S, Soares MO, Bujkiewicz S. Multi-indication evidence synthesis in oncology Health Technology Assessment: meta-analysis methods and their application to a case study of bevacizumab. Med Decis Making 2025;45:17-33

Spillane J, Trip J, Drost G, Faber CG, Hanna MG, Nevitt SJ, Vivekanandam V. Drug treatment for myotonia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2025: Issue 4. Art. No.: CD004762.

Stevens A, Hersi M, Garritty C, Hartling L, Shea BJ, Stewart LA, Welch VA, Tricco AC; Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid review method series: interim guidance for the reporting of rapid reviews. BMJ Evid Based Med 2025;30:118-123

Swords C, Smith ME, Patel A, Norman G, Llewellyn A, Tysome JR. Balloon dilatation of the Eustachian tube for obstructive Eustachian tube dysfunction in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2025; Issue 2. Art. No.: CD013429

Tanti MJ, Nevitt S, Yeo M, Bolton W, Chumas P, Mathew R, Maguire MJ. Oedema as a prognostic factor for seizures in meningioma - a systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurosurg Rev 2025;48:249.

Wade R, Nevitt S, Liu Y, Harden M, Khouja C, Raine G, Churchill R, Dias S. Multi-cancer early detection tests for general population screening: a systematic literature review. Health Technol Assess 2025;29(2)

Walton M, Deng NJ, Corbett M, Umemneku-Chikere C, Nevitt S, Fulbright H, Tan CY, Lachmann R, Churchill R, Hodgson R. The cost-effectiveness of enzyme replacement therapies versus best supportive care for treating late onset Pompe disease in the UK NHS. Eur J Health Econ 2025 Nov 18 [Epub ahead of print]

Walton M, Deng NJ, Corbett M, Umemneku-Chikere C, Nevitt SJ, Fulbright H, Tan CY, Lachmann R, Churchill R, Hodgson R. Re-anchoring the value of innovative therapies in NICE decision making when comparators are cost ineffective: a case study of late-onset Pompe disease. Pharmacoeconomics 2025 Nov 3 [Epub ahead of print]

Wightman H, Butterly E, Wei L, McChrystal R, Sattar N, Adler A, Phillippo D, Dias S, Welton N, Clegg A, Witham M, Rockwood K, McAllister DA, Hanlon P. Frailty in randomized controlled trials of glucose-lowering therapies for type 2 diabetes: an individual participant data meta-analysis of frailty prevalence, treatment efficacy, and adverse events. PLoS Med 2025;22:e1004553