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Malgorzata M Bala

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Citations 2057
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General Medicine
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Gordon H Guyatt
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Mateusz J Swierz
Joanna Zajac
Wiktoria Lesniak
Claudia Valli
Dena Zeraatkar
Jos Kleijnen
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev
Pol Arch Med Wewn
J Clin Epidemiol
Ann Intern Med
BMJ
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Recent Articles
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Nutrition users' guides: systematic reviews part 1 -structured guide for methodological assessment, interpretation and application of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of non-randomised nutritional epidemiology studies
Zeraatkar D, de Souza R, Guyatt G, Bala M, Alonso-Coello P, Johnston B
BMJ Nutr Prev Health . 2025 Jan; 7(2):e000835. PMID: 39882294
Due to the challenges of conducting randomised controlled trials (randomised trials) of dietary interventions, evidence in nutrition often comes from non-randomised (observational) studies of nutritional exposures-called nutritional epidemiology studies. When...
2.
Nutrition Users' Guides: RCTs Part 2 - structured guide for interpreting and applying study results from randomised controlled trials on therapy or prevention questions
Bala M, Agarwal A, Klatt K, Vernooij R, Alonso-Coello P, Steen J, et al.
BMJ Nutr Prev Health . 2025 Jan; 7(2):e000834. PMID: 39882290
This article continues from a prior commentary on evaluating the risk of bias in randomised controlled trials addressing nutritional interventions. Having provided a synopsis of the risk of bias issues,...
3.
Nutrition users' guides: RCTs part 1 - structured guide for assessing risk of bias in randomised controlled trials that address therapy or prevention questions
Agarwal A, Bala M, Zeraatkar D, Valli C, Alonso-Coello P, Ghosh N, et al.
BMJ Nutr Prev Health . 2025 Jan; 7(2):e000833. PMID: 39882286
The purpose of this article, part 1 of 2 on randomised controlled trials (RCTs), is to provide readers (eg, clinicians, patients, health service and policy decision-makers) of the nutrition literature...
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Communicating evidence-based information on the effects of health interventions to various types of recipients - a qualitative study on the perception of formats of information among lay and professional audiences
Prokop-Dorner A, Zajac J, Bala M
Ann Agric Environ Med . 2025 Jan; 31(4):529-545. PMID: 39743712
Introduction And Objective: Considering the complexity of medical discourse, the enormous amount of information, including fake news, it becomes increasingly challenging to develop health literacy among the general population and...
5.
Perioperative lifestyle and nutritional interventions' details reporting in bariatric surgery trials according to the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist: a cross-sectional study
Swierz M, Storman D, Madej O, Krolikowska J, Dyngosz E, Kotlarek A, et al.
Surg Obes Relat Dis . 2024 Dec; 21(4):390-400. PMID: 39706722
Background: Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) is considered the most effective treatment for people with severe obesity, and certain interventions could enhance its long-term results. The complete reporting of interventions'...
6.
Impact of sodium intake on blood pressure, mortality and major cardiovascular events: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Yang Q, Vernooij R, Zhu H, Nesrallah G, Bai C, Wang Q, et al.
Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr . 2024 Dec; :1-11. PMID: 39624982
A plethora of systematic reviews with meta-analyses (SRMAs) evaluating sodium intake on cardiovascular health have been published. However, the quality of the SRMAs, that report absolute estimates of effect for...
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Nutrition as therapy - the role of dietitian counseling: a best practice implementation project
Weglarz P, Skop-Lewandowska A, Prill R, Poklepovic Pericic T, Vrbova T, Klugarova J, et al.
JBI Evid Implement . 2024 Nov; PMID: 39530227
Objectives: The objective of this best practice implementation project was to improve dieticians' professional practice and dietary care through the use of counseling strategies. Introduction: Improving the design and implementation...
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Intra-articular knee injections in patients with primary osteoarthritis in a tertiary clinical setting: a best practice implementation project
Kayaalp M, Hakam H, Klugarova J, Klugar M, Poklepovic Pericic T, Bala M, et al.
JBI Evid Implement . 2024 Oct; 23(1):81-89. PMID: 39463188
Aims: This project aimed to improve physicians' adherence to evidence-based practices regarding the selection and administration of intra-articular knee injections for patients with osteoarthritis. The project also aimed to empower...
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Cross-sectional exploratory survey among health researchers in Europe on the awareness of and barriers affecting the use of an evidence-based research approach
Van Eerdenbrugh S, Pingani L, Prevendar T, Lantta T, Zajac J, Prokop-Dorner A, et al.
BMJ Open . 2024 Oct; 14(10):e083676. PMID: 39414297
Objectives: This exploratory study was conducted to find out how well the concept of evidence-based research (EBR) is known among European health researchers with substantial clinical research experience, and which...
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Transarterial (chemo)embolisation versus systemic chemotherapy for colorectal cancer liver metastases
Swierz M, Storman D, Mitus J, Hetnal M, Kukielka A, Szlauer-Stefanska A, et al.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev . 2024 Aug; 8:CD012757. PMID: 39119869
Background: The liver is affected by two groups of malignant tumours: primary liver cancers and liver metastases. Liver metastases are significantly more common than primary liver cancer, and five-year survival...