2009
Sharma SK, Sharma A, Kadhiravan T, Tharyan P. Isoniazid monotherapy versus other monotherapies or combination chemotherapy for preventing active tuberculosis in HIV-negative persons (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD007545. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007545.
Duley L, Tharyan P. O registro de ensaios clínicos como garantia do uso das evidências científicas nas decisões sobre cuidados de saúde [Ensuring health care decisions are informed by all of the evidence: the role of trial registration]. Cad Saúde Pública 2008; 24(12):2732-3.
Mohan TS, Tharyan P, Alexander J, Raveendran NS. Effects of stimulus intensity on the efficacy and safety of twice-weekly, bilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with antipsychotics in acute mania: a randomised controlled trial. Bipolar Disorders. 2009;11(2):126-34.
Pang T, Tharyan P. Evaluating the global ‘Evidence Footprint’: how can evidence better serve the needs of global public health? Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 2009 Feb; 1 (2):41-46.
Tharyan P. Prospective Registration of Clinical Trials in India: Strategies, Achievements & Challenges. Journal of Evidence Based Medicine 2009 Feb; 1 (2) 19-28.
Singh JC, Tharyan P, Kekre NS, Singh G, Gopalakrishnan G. Prevalence and risk factors for female sexual dysfunction in women attending a medical clinic in south India. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 2009; 55 (2): 113-120.
Mohanan P, Kamath A. Family support for reducing morbidity and mortality in people with HIV/AIDS. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD006046. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006046.pub2
Simha A, Braganza A, Abraham L, Samuel P, Lindsley K. Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor for neovascular glaucoma (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD007920. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007920.
K SK, Kumar SK, Macaden AS. Cognitive rehabilitation for occupational outcomes after traumatic brain injury (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD007935. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007935
Bose A, Kalita S, Rose W, Tharyan P. Intermittent versus daily therapy for treating tuberculosis in children (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD007953. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007953.
Kumar P, Chawla D, Deorari A. Light-emitting diode phototherapy for unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in neonates (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD007969. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007969.
Davis F, Kumaran D S, Nair S, J V. Physical fitness training for people with spinal cord injury (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD007955. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007955.
Koshy CG, Kesava SN, Sudarsanam TD. Primary stenting versus balloon angioplasty for stenotic and occlusive lesions of the iliac artery. (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD007561. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007561.
Gogia S, Sachdev HS. Zinc supplementation for mental and motor development in children (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD007991. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007991.
2008
Adams CE, Coutinho ES, Davis J, Duggan L, Leucht S, Li C, Tharyan P. Cochrane schizophrenia group. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2008;34(2):259-65.
Sudarsanam T, Rupali P, Tharyan P, Abraham O, Thomas K. Pre-admission antibiotics for suspected cases of meningococcal disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Jan 23;(1):CD005437.
Tharyan P, Premkumar TS, Mathew V, Barnabas JP, Manuelraj. Editorial policy and the reporting of randomized controlled trials: survey of instructions to authors and assessment of quality of randomised controlled trials in Indian Medical Journals (2004-2005). National Medical Journal of India 2008; 21:62-68.
Tharyan P. Ghersi D. Registering clinical trials in India: a scientific and ethical imperative. National Medical Journal of India. 2008; 21:31-34.
Rajkumar AP, Samson T, Tharyan P. Coping with the Asian tsunami: Perspectives from Tamil Nadu, India on the determinants of resilience in the face of adversity. Social Science and Medicine 2008 Sep;67(5):844-53. Epub 2008 Jun 16.
Tharyan P. Clinical Trial Registration in India: no longer a dream (Editorial). Tropical Gasteroenterology 2008;29:1-3.
Tharyan P. National bioethics conference. Indian J Med Ethics. 2008 Apr-Jun;5(2):97
George K, Nair R, Tharyan P. Ovulation triggers in anovulatory women undergoing ovulation induction. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD006900. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006900.pub2
Clarke M, Tharyan P, Green S. How up-to-date are Cochrane reviews? Response from the Cochrane Collaboration [letter]. Lancet 2008; 371:384-385.
Tharyan P. Tranquilising agitated mentally ill patients: intramuscular haloperidol plus promethazine reduces need for additional medication or medical attention compared to olanzapine. Evid Based Ment Health. 2008;11(3):87.
Rebecca J Syed Sheriff, Clive E Adams, Prathap Tharyan, Mahesh Jayaram, Lelia Duley and the PRACTIHC Mental Health Group. Randomised trials relevant to mental health conducted in low and middle-income countries: a survey. BMC Psychiatry 2008, 8:69. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-8-69
Samson T & Tharyan P. Effects of stimulus intensity on the efficacy of twice weekly bilateral ECT in acute manic states: a double blind randomised control trial. Journal of Bipolar Disorders (in press)
Grobler L, Siegfried N, Askie L, Hooft L, Tharyan P, Antes G. Are national and multinational prospective trial registers necessary? The Lancet 2008; 372 (9645) 4: 1201-1202
George R, Jeba J, Ramkumar G, Chacko AG, Leng M, Tharyan P. Interventions for the treatment of metastatic extradural spinal cord compression in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 4 Art. No.: CD006716. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006716.pub2.
Duley L, Tharyan P. O registro de ensaios clínicos como garantia do uso das evidências científicas nas decisões sobre cuidados de saúde [Ensuring health care decisions are informed by all of the evidence: the role of trial registration]. Cad Saúde Pública 2008; 24(12):2732-3.
Mathew JL, El Dib R, Mathew PJ, Boxall EH, Brok J. Hepatitis B immunisation in persons not previously exposed to hepatitis B or with unknown exposure status. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD006481. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006481.pub2.
Subramanian E, Ramaratnam S, Ranganathan LN. Gabapentin monotherapy for epilepsy. (Protocol) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD007120. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007120.
Prasad K, Singh MB. Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD002244. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002244.pub3.
Thaver D, Zaidi AKM, Critchley JA, Azmatullah A, Madni SA, Bhutta ZA. Fluoroquinolones for treating typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD004530. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004530.pub3.
2007
Galappaththy GNL, Omari AAA, Tharyan P. Primaquine for preventing relapses in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD004389. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004389.pub2.
Tharyan P. ECT for depressed elderly: what is the evidence and is the evidence enough? International Psychogeriatrics 2007; 19: 19-23.
Tharyan P, Adhikar SD. Randomized controlled clinical trials: critical issues. Journal of Anaesthesia and Clinical Pharmacology 2007; 23(3): 231-240.
Tharyan P. Evaluating Systematic Reviews in Urology: a practical guide. Indian Journal of Urology July 2007;23: 224-233.
Tharyan P. Free access to the Cochrane library for everyone in India. Indian Journal of Surgery 2007; 69:37-37.
Tharyan P. Access to the Cochrane library for everyone in India. National Medical Journal of India 2007; 20 (1): 49.
Kurien M, Thomas K, Ahuja RC, Patel A, Shyla PR, Wig N, Mangalani M, Sathyanathan, Kasthuri A, Vyas B, Brojen A, Sudarsanam TD, Chaturvedi A, Abraham OC, Tharyan P, Selvaraj KG, Mathew J; IndiaCLEN HIV Screening Study Group. Screening for HIV infection by health professionals in India. National Medical Journal of India. 2007 Mar-Apr;20(2):59-66.
Tharyan P, Tharyan A, Bhattacharji S. Exorcising the devil: Partnerships between faith communities and mental health services. British Journal of Psychiatry 2007 http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/eletters/191/2/97
Raveendran NS, Tharyan P, Alexander J, Adams CE and the TREC-India II Collaborative Group. Rapid tranquilization of violent or agitated people in psychiatric emergency settings: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of intramuscular olanzepine versus intramuscular haloperidol plus promethazine. BMJ 2007 Oct 27;335(7625):865-72. Epub 2007 Oct 22.
Adhikary SD, Babu SK, Tharyan P, Venkatesan T. The effects of general anaesthetic agents on cortical mapping during neurosurgical procedures involving eloquent areas of the brain. (Protocol) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD006679. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006679.
Tharyan P. Ethics Committees and clinical trials registration in India: opportunities, obligations, challenges and solutions. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 2007; 4: 168-69.
Allen C, Clarke M, Tharyan P. International Activity in The Cochrane Collaboration with particular reference to India. National Medical Journal of India 2007; 20: 250-255.
M Singh. Heated, humidified air for the common cold. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD001728.pub3. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001728.pub3.
Tharyan P. ECT for depressed elderly: what is the evidence and is the evidence enough? International Psychogeriatrics2007; 19: 19-23.
Ranganathan LN, Ramaratnam S. Zonisamide monotherapy for epilepsy. (Protocol) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD006789. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006789.
2006
Tharyan P & Goplakrishan G. Erectile dysfunction.BMJ Clinical Evidence
2006; 15:1227–1251
Tharyan P & Braganza D. Mental Health as a Key Issue in the future of
global health developments International Review of Mission 2006; 95: 376/377
Premkumar A, Tharyan P, Jebaraj P, Braganza D. Risperidone, ziprasidone,
valproate, trihexphenydil and clonazepam overdose with benign outcome. Journal of Association of Physicians of India 2006 (in press)
Tharyan P. The WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform and
the Indian Clinical Trials Register. National Medical Journal of India 2006; 19: 161-164.
Tharyan P. The placebo controlled trial in psychiatry on trial. Indian Journal of
Medical Ethics 2006; 3: 13-17.
Tharyan P. Disclose or perish; time for a sequel to the ICMJE statement. The
Lancet 2006
(http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article
/PIIS0140673606687096/comments?action=view&totalComments=1#532)
Ofori-Adjei D, Antes G, Tharyan P, Slade E, Tamber PS. Have online international medical journals made local journals obsolete? PLoS Med 2006; 3(8): e359. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030359.
Tharyan P. Evidence based guidelines: the case of ECT for people with schizophrenia. Journal of the Pakistan Psychiatric Society 2006; 3: 3-5.
Adams CE, Tharyan P, Coutinho E, Stroup S. The schizophrenia drug-treatment paradox: pharmacological treatment based on best possible evidence may be hardest to practise in high-income countries. British Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 189: 391-392.
Syed Sheriff RJ, Jayaram M, Tharyan P, Duley L, Adams CE. Randomised trials relevant to mental health conducted in low and middle-income countries: protocol for a survey of studies published in 1991, 1995 and 2000 and assessment of their relevance. BMC Psychiatry 2006, 6:40 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-6-40.
Tharyan P, Jebaraj P. Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials and evidence informed palliative care. Indian Journal of Palliative Care 2006;12:39-41
K Prabhash, VR Pai, PM Parikh, A Vora. Postoperative chemoradiation for head and neck cancers. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD006159. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006159.
Tharyan P. Whose trial is it anyway? Reflections on morality, double standards, uncertainty and criticism in international collaborative health research. Monash Bioethics Review, 2006; 24:53-68.
2005
Farooq S, Tharyan P, Adams C. The relevance of systematic reviews and the Cochrane Collaboration to effective health care in South Asia. Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan. 2005;15: 127-128.
Tharyan P. Aftermath of the tsunami on Black Sunday (December 26th
2004). Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care 2005 [cited 2005 April 26];3(1-2).
Available at http://www.jephc.com/full_article.cfm?content_id=194.
Tharyan P & Adams CE. Electroconvulsive Therapy for Schizophrenia.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD000076.pub2. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000076.pub2
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/
CD000076/frame.html
T Sudarsanam, K Thomas, P Rupalli, OC Abraham, P Tharyan. Pre-admission antibiotics for suspected cases of meningococcal disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD005437. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005437.
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/
CD005437/frame.html
Tharyan P The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group: Preparing, maintaining
And disseminating the evidence for interventions used for people with schizophrenia. International Review of Psychiatry 2005 7(02): 1–7
Tharyan P, Clarke M, Green S. How the Cochrane Collaboration is
responding to the Asian tsunami. PLoS Med 2005 2(6): e169.
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020169
Tharyan P. The many faces of depression in adults. Current Medical Issues
2005; 7 (5) 7.
Tharyan P. Traumaticbereavement after the Asian tsunami: perspectives
from Tamil Nadu, India. Bereavement Care 2005; 24: 23-26.
Alexander J, Tharyan P, Adams C, John T, Mol C, Philip J. Drug
combinations for rapid tranquillization: authors reply. British Journal of Psychiatry 2005: 187: 192-193.
Alexander J, Tharyan P. Limitations of rapid tranquillisation trial: authors'
reply. British Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 187: 193-194.
Kurien S, Tharyan P, Jacob KS. Combination of ECT and Clozapine in
drug resistant schizophrenia. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2005;47:245
Thatcher N, Chang A, Parikh P, Rodrigues Pereira J, Ciuleanu T, von Pawel J, et al. Gefitinib plus best supportive care in previously treated patients with refractory advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: results from a randomised, placebo-controlled, multicentre study (Iressa Survival Evaluation in Lung Cancer). Lancet. 2005;366(9496):1527-37.
2004
van de Beek D, de Gans J, McIntyre P, Prasad K. Steroids in adults with acute bacterial meningitis: a systematic review. Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2004 Mar;4:139-43.
Critchley, P Garner, S Hahn, B Mayosi, H Mwandumba, L Orton, K Prasad, J Volmink. Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing tuberculosis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD004915. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004915
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/
CD004915/frame.html
K Prasad, T Singhal, N Jain, PK Gupta. Third generation cephalosporins versus conventional antibiotics for treating acute bacterial meningitis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD001832.pub2. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001832.pub2.
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/
CD001832/frame.html
K Prasad, K Al-Roomi, PR Krishnan, R Sequeira. Anticonvulsant therapy for status epilepticus. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD003723.pub2. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003723.pub2.
S Ramaratnam, GA Baker, LH Goldstein. Psychological treatments for epilepsy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD002029.pub2. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002029.pub2
Marson A, Ramaratnam S. Epilepsy. Clin Evid. 2005; 14:1576-97.
2003
G Ryan, S Mukhopadhyay, M Singh. Nebulised anti-pseudomonal antibiotics for cystic fibrosis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD001021. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001021.
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/
articles/CD001021/frame.html
Tharyan P. & Adams CE. Electroconvulsive therapy for schizophrenia (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 1, 2003. Oxford: Update Software.
2002
M Singh, A Bara, P Gibson. Humidity control for chronic asthma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2002, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD003563. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003563.
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/
articles/CD003563/frame.html
S Ramaratnam, K Sridharan. Yoga for epilepsy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2002, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD001524. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001524
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/
CD001524/frame.html
M Singh, CH Spooner, BH Rowe. Humidification of inspired air in exercise-induced asthma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2002, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD003569. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003569.
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/
CD003569/frame.html