Nicolás Meza Concha

Bracchiglione J, Meza N, Franco J, Escobar Liquitay CM, Novik A V, Ocara Vargas M, Lazcano G, Poloni D,Rinaldi Langlotz F, Roqué-Figuls M, Munoz SR, Madrid E. Semaglutide for adults living with obesity.Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews TBD, Issue TBD. Art. No.: CD015092. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD015092.pub2 (submitted).

Bracchiglione J, Meza N, Pieper D, Lunny C, Vargas-Peirano M, Vicuña J, Briceño F, Perez-Carrasco I, Urrútia G, Bonfill X, Madrid E. Impact of matrix-construction assumptions on the Corrected Covered Area: A Framework for Quantifying Overlap in Overviews of Systematic Reviews. Research Synthesis Methods (submitted).

Franco J, Guo Y, Varela LB, Aqra Z, Alhalahla M, Medina Rodriguez M, Salvador Oscco EL, Patiño Araujo B,Banda S, Escobar Liquitay CM, Bracchiglione J, Meza N, Madrid E. Tirzepatide for adults living withobesity. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews TBD, Issue TBD. Art. No.: CD016018. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD016018. 101 (submitted).

Gonzalez Aroca J, Vergara Merino L, Meza N, Gonzalez C, Ramirez Araya P, Escobar Liquitay CM, Munoz SR, Madrid E. Interventions for improving adherence to exercise-based treatments in people with knee osteoarthritis (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews TBD, Issue TBD. Art. No.: CD016088. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD016088.

Meza N, Bracchiglione J, Escobar Liquitay CM, Madrid E, Varela L, Guo Y, Urrútia G, Er S, Tiller S, Shokraee K, Alvarez Busco F, Solà I, Ocara Vargas M, Novik A V, Poloni D, Franco J. Liraglutide for adults living with obesity. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews TBD, Issue TBD. Art. No.: CD016017. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD016017 (submitted).

Meza N, Franco JV, Sguassero Y, Núñez V, Escobar Liquitay CM, Rees R, Williams K, Rojas V, Rojas F, Pringsheim T, Madrid E. Atypical antipsychotics for autism spectrum disorder: a network meta-analysis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2025 May 21;5:CD014965. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014965.pub2. PMID: 40396498

Gonzalez Aroca J, Vergara Merino L, Meza N, Gonzalez C, Ramirez Araya P, Escobar Liquitay CM, Munoz SR, Madrid E. Interventions for improving adherence to exercise-based treatments in people with knee osteoarthritis (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews TBD, Issue TBD. Art. No.: CD016088. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD016088.

Escobar-Liquitay CM, Vergara-Merino L, Verdejo C, Kirmayr M, Schuller-Martínez B, Madrid E, Meza N, Bracchiglione J, Franco JVA. Methodological and users’ surveys on the use of the LILACS database in Cochrane reviews identified desirable improvements to the database. Health Info Libr J. 2024 Mar;41(1):76-83. doi: 10.1111/hir.12505. Epub 2023 Aug 13. PMID: 37574776.

Javier Bracchiglione, Nicolás Meza, Carole Lunny, Dawid Pieper, Eva Madrid, Gerard Urrútia, Xavier Bonfill Cosp Assumptions for creating matrices of evidence to estimate overlap of primary studies in overviews of reviews: Protocol for a meta-research study medRxiv 2023.06.16.23291488; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.16.23291488

Meza N, Bracchiglione J, Madrid E, Escobar Liquitay CM, Popova E, Salazar R, Urrútia G. Use of the patient-centered outcome Days Alive and Out of Hospital in clinical studies on perioperative care: a scoping review protocol. F1000Res [Internet]. 2024 Oct 10;13:1194. Available from: https://f1000research.com/articles/13-1194/v1

Requeijo C, Bracchiglione J, Meza N, Ribera P, Güell E, Bonfill Cosp X, Appropriateness of Systemic Oncological Treatments for Advanced Cancer (ASTAC) Research Group. Anti-cancer drugs versus supportive care for advanced biliary tract cancers: a systematic review. F1000Res [Internet]. 2024 Jun 7;13:599. Available from: https://f1000research.com/articles/13-599/v1

Bracchiglione J, Meza N, Pérez-Carrasco I, et al. A methodological review finds mismatch between overall and pairwise overlap analysis in a sample of overviews. J Clin Epidemiol. May 8 2023;159:31-39. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.05.006

Escobar-Liquitay CM, Vergara-Merino L, Verdejo C, Kirmayr M, Schuller-Martínez B, Madrid E, Meza N, Bracchiglione J, Franco JVA. Methodological and users’ surveys on the use of the LILACS database in Cochrane reviews identified desirable improvements to the database. Health Info Libr J. 2023 Aug 13. doi: 10.1111/hir.12505. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37574776.

Fieiras C, Hao Chen M, Escobar-Liquitay C, Meza N, Rojas V, Franco JVA, Madrid E Risperidone and aripiprazole for autism spectrum disorder in children: an overview of systematic reviews. British Medical Journal Evidence-Based Medicine BMJ Evid Based Med 2023 Feb;28(1):7-14. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111804.. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111804.

Mandiola MI, Arancibia M, Elton V, Madrid E, Meza N, Stojanova J, Lutz M, Leyton F. Perfectionism, academic stress and social anxiety in female medical students and the risk for eating disorders. Rev Med Chile 2022; 150: 1046.1053.

Meza N, Madrid E, Bracchiglione J, Leyton F, Rojas V, Rada G, Verdugo F, Rojas AM, Peña J. Ministerio de Salud de Chile. Intervenciones no farmacológicas para abordar las necesidades de adolescentes con Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA)[Internet]. Santiago; 2023 Mar. Disponible en: https://etesa-sbe.minsal.cl/index.php/publicaciones/

Bracchiglione J, Meza N, Franco JVA, Escobar Liquitay CM, Munoz SR, Urrutia G, Madrid E. Mapping Chilean clinical research: a protocol for a scoping review and multiple evidence gap maps. BMJ Open [Internet]. 2022 Jun 20;12(6):e057555. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057555

Bracchiglione J, Meza N, Madrid E Response to: ‘Additional considerations and response to Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews (GROOVE tool)” Res Synth Methods. 2022 Jul 7. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1588.

Fieiras C, Hao Chen M, Escobar-Liquitay C, Meza N, Rojas V, Franco JVA, Madrid E Risperidone and aripiprazole for autism spectrum disorder in children: an overview of systematic reviews. British Medical Journal Evidence-Based Medicine BMJ Evid Based Med. 2022 Jan 31:bmjebm-2021-111804. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111804.

Franco JVA, Dwan K, Garegnani L, Kunneman M, Madrid E, Metzendorf MI, Meza N, Nunan D, Richards G, Riganti P, Veroniki AA Advocating for evidence-informed decisions to make healthcare fit for each person. BMJ evidence-based medicine 27(2):bmjebm-2022-111953 DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-111953

Garegnani LI, Madrid E, Meza N Misleading clinical evidence and systematic reviews on ivermectin for COVID-19. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2022 Jun;27(3):156-158. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111678. Epub 2021 Apr 22.

Meza N, Rees R, Escobar LiquitayCM, Franco JVA, Sguassero Y, Williams K, Pringsheim T, Rojas V, Madrid E. Atypical antipsychotics for autism spectrum disorder: a network meta-analysis (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2022, Issue 5. Art. No.: CD014965. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD014965.

Meza N, Rojas V, Escobar-Liquitay C, Pérez I, Aguilera F, Amarales C, Irarrázaval M, Madrid E, Franco JVA Non-pharmacological interventions for autism spectrum disorder in children: an overview of systematic reviews. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2022 Feb 25:bmjebm-2021-111811. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111811.

Pérez-Bracchiglione, Javier; Meza, Nicolás; Bangdiwala, Shrikant; Niño de Guzmán, Ena; Urrútia, Gerard; Bonfill, Xavier; Madrid, Eva Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool. Research Synthesis Methods March 2022 13(3): 381-388. DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1557

Salazar J, Bracchiglione J, Acosta-Dighero R, Meza N, Meade AG, Quintana MJ, Requeijo C, Rodríguez-Grijalva G, Santero M, Selva A, Solá I, Bonfill X. Systemic oncological treatments in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer: A scoping review and evidence map. (accepted in Supportive Care in Cancer)

Franco JVA, Meza N Authors should also report the support for judgment when applying AMSTAR 2. J Clin Epidemiol 2021 Mar 24:S0895-4356(21)00092-5.

Garegnani L, Meza Concha N, Rosón-Rodriguez P, Escobar-Liquitay C, Arancibia M. Madrid E, Franco JVA. Patients’ participation in government-sponsored guidelines in Latin America: A cross-sectional study. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2022 Feb;27(1):21-26. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111530. Epub 2021 Mar 5.

González-Xuriguera CG, Vergara-Merino L, Garegnani L, Ortiz-Muñoz L, Meza N. Introduction to network meta-analysis for evidence synthesis. Medwave 2021;21(06):e8315

Meza N, Leyton F. Vortioxetine for generalised anxiety disorder in adults. Medwave 2021;21(03):e8171

Meza N, Pérez-Bracchiglione J, Pérez I, Carvajal C, Ortiz-Muñoz L, Olguín P, Rada G, Madrid E, COVID-19 L·OVE Working Group. Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers for COVID-19: A living systematic review of randomized clinical trials. Medwave 2021;21(2):e8105 Doi: 10.5867/medwave.2021.02.8105

Salas Apaza J, Franco JVA, Meza N, Madrid E, Loézar C, Garegnani L. Minimal Clinically Important Difference: the basics Medwave 2021;21(03):e8149 Doi 10.5867/medwave.2021.03.8149

Schuller B, Meza N, Pérez-Bracchiglione J, Franco JVA, Loézar C, Madrid E. Graphical representation of the body of the evidence: the essentials for understanding the evidence gap map approach. April 2021 Medwave 21(3):e8164 DOI: 10.5867/medwave.2021.03.8164

Vergara-Merino L, Meza N, Couve-Perez C, Carrasco C, Ortiz-Muñoz L, Madrid E, Bohorquez-Blanco S. Perez-Bracchiglione J. Maternal and perinatal outcomes related to COVID-19 and pregnancy  Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2021 Feb 9. doi: 10.1111/aogs.14118.

Catalina Sofía Verdejo Cartagena, Laura Vergara Merino, Nicolás Meza Concha, Javier Pérez Bracchiglione, Natalia Carvajal Juliá, Eva Madrid Aris, Gabriel Rada Giacaman, María Ximena Rojas Reyes Macrolides for the treatment of COVID-19: A living systematic review. Medwave 2020;20(11):e8073 doi: 10.5867/medwave.2020.11.8073

Franco JVA, Arancibia M, Meza N, Madrid E, Kopitowski K. Clinical practice guidelines: Concepts, limitations and challenges. Medwave. 2020 Apr 30;20(3):e7887.

Garegnani LI, Rosón P, Escobar Liquitay C, Meza N, Arancibia M, Madrid E, Franco JVA. Use of Cochrane reviews in nationally-developed clinical practice guidelines in Latin America. Medwave. 2020 Sep 15;20(8):e8027. Spanish, English. doi: 10.5867/medwave.2020.08.8027. PMID: 33017384.

Loezar C, Pérez-Bracchiglione J, Arancibia M, Meza N, Vargas M, Papuzinski C, Rada G, Ondarza C, Jahr C, Cadena C, Madrid E. Guidelines in Low and Middle Income Countries Paper 2: Quality assessment of Chilean guidelines: need for improvement in rigor, applicability, updating, and patients’ inclusion. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020 Nov;127:177-183. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.07.018. Epub 2020 Aug 24. PMID: 32853762.

Meza N, Leyton F. Vortioxetine for generalised anxiety disorder. Medwave 2020; (en prensa)

Meza N, Pérez-Bracchiglione J, Pérez I, Carvajal C, Olguín P, Rada G, Madrid E Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers for COVID-19: A living systematic review protocol OSF 2020: DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vp9nj

Urrea G, Llanos P, Meza N, Vargas M, Ortiz-Muñoz L, Rada G, Madrid E Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in patients with COVID-19: A living systematic review OSF 2020 DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/UYVHA

Verdejo C, Vergara-Merino L, Carvajal-Juliá N, Meza N, Madrid E, Rada G, Reyes MXR Macrolides for the treatment of COVID-19: A living systematic review protocol OSF 2020 doi:10.31219/osf.io/rvp59

Vergara-Merino, L., Pérez-Bracchiglione, J., Meza, N., Couve, C., Carrasco, C., Ortiz-Muñoz, L. E., & Rada, G. (2020, July 30). Prognosis of COVID-19 in pregnancy: Protocol for an overview of systematic reviews. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/64qyz

Behar R, Arancibia M, Gaete MI, Silva H, Meza-Concha N. The delusional dimension of anorexia nervosa: phenomenological, neurobiological and clinical perspectives. Arch Clin Psychiatry 2018; 45: 15-21.

Borgeat Meza M, Luengo-Charath X, Arancibia M, Madrid E. Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) Ethical Guidelines: advancements and unsolved topics in 2016 upgrade. Medwave. 2018 Apr 25;18(2):e7208.

Olivero P, Lozano C, Sotomayor-Zárate R, Meza-Concha N, Arancibia M, Córdova C, González-Arriagada W, Ramírez-Barrantes R, Marchant I. Proteostasis and mitochondrial role on psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders: current perspectives. Neural Plast 2018; 6798712. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6798712

Martínez-Aguayo JC, Middleton F, Nahuelcura K, Arancibia M, Meza-Concha N, Sepúlveda E, Gepp A, Escobar R, Madrid E. Caracterización fenomenológica de las conductas impulsivas repetitivas orientadas hacia el cuerpo y el trastorno por excoriación en estudiantes universitarios. Rev Chil Neuro-Psiquiat 2017; 55: 221-230.

Meza-Concha, Nicolás; Arancibia, Marcelo; Salas, Felicia; Behar, Rosa; Salas, German; Silva, Hernan; Escobar, Rocio. (1/7). 2017. Towards a neurobiological understanding of alexithymia Medwave. Medwave. 17-04. Google Scholar (35) https://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2017.04.6960.

World Health Organization – Multimodal clinical algorithms with GLP-1 RA or GLP-1/GIP dual agonists for the management of obesity in adults: a component-network meta-analysis.  Clinical Practice Guideline Obesity. World Health Organization Geneva. 2024-2025   (IP Juan Victor Ariel Franco).

World Health Organization –GLP-1 receptor agonists and GIP/GLP1 dual agonists for people with obesity. Clinical Practice Guideline Obesity. World Health Organization Geneva. 2024-2025   (IP Eva Madrid)

World Health Organization – FPG threshold for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus.  Clinical Practice Guideline Diabetes in Pregnancy. A diagnostic test accuracy systematic review. World Health Organization Geneva. 2025-2026  IP Nicolás Meza

Commissioned Evidence Synthesis for the Gastroenteritis in Children Guideline project. KSA Task Force. Gabriel Rada.. 01/02/2022-01/05/2022.  Eva Madrid co-investigadora

FONDECYT REGULAR 1212037 Mapping of Chilean clinical health research through a systematic approach for identifying evidence gaps: a step towards evidence-informed decision making and strategic research agendas. ANID-CONICYT (2021-2024) Eva Madrid, Nicolás Meza, Javier Bracchiglione.

“SERVICIOS DE ESTUDIO DE PAGO ASOCIADO A DIAGNÓSTICO EN ENFERMEDADES PROFESIONALES Asociaciones de Mutualidades de Chile, Rol: Coinvestigador”

Proyecto. s/n, Commissioned Evidence Synthesis for the Gastroenteritis in Children Guideline project. KSA Task Force. Gabriel Rada. (Epistemonikos Foundation). 01/02/2022-01/05/2022. Javier Bracchiglione, Eva Madrid y Nicolás Meza co-investigadores

Minsal ID 757-79-LP21   DIPLAS. Contratación de servicios de búsqueda, extracción de datos, evaluación de riesgo de sesgo y síntesis de evidencia científica para guías de práctica clínica GES (2021-2022) Ministerio de Salud Subsecretaría de Salud Pública SBEETESA. Rol: Coordinadora Eva Madrid, investigadores Nicolás Meza y Javier Bracchiglione

ID 757-22-L120 Diseño manual para el abordaje integral de los trastornos del espectro autista en niños y niñas (2020-2021). Nicolas Meza Investigador Principal, Eva Madrid coinvestigadora

Perez-Bracchiglione J, Bravo G, Madrid E, Meza N, Olguín P, Ortiz-Muñoz L, Arancibia M, Vergara L, Loézar C, Papuzinski C, Morel M, Villarroel C,   Resumen de Políticas: Evidencias para mejorar la tasa de vacunación del adulto Mayor Ministerio de Salud SBE-ETESA Financiamiento OPS 2018.