overviews of systematic reviews
Evidence map of studies evaluating methods for conducting, interpreting and reporting overviews of systematic reviews of interventions: rationale and design
... in overviews will be identified from articles describing methods for overviews, methods studies examining a cross section/cohort of overviews, guidance documents and ...from systematic ...
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A decision tool to help researchers make decisions about including systematic reviews in overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions
... Background: Overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions (overviews) integrate information from multiple systematic reviews (SRs) to provide a single synthesis of relevant evidence ...
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Evaluation of AMSTAR to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews in overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions
... for Systematic Reviews of Interventions [48] and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) reporting guidelines [49], can help ensure adequate quality and ...
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Definition of a systematic review used in overviews of systematic reviews, meta-epidemiological studies and textbooks
... word systematic, such as: “systematic methods”, “systematic approach”, “systematic search”, “systematic synthesis”, “systematic analysis” and “systematic presen- tation”, ...
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Quality ratings of reviews in overviews: a comparison of reviews with and without dual (co-)authorship
... of systematic reviews (henceforth termed over- views) attempt to systematically retrieve, assess, and synthesize the results of multiple systematic reviews (SRs) for a given condition or ...
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An introduction to overviews of reviews: planning a relevant research question and objective for an overview
... interventions. Overviews of risk factors will have similar clinical interest and potential relevance for policymakers and ...regulators. Overviews relating to the adverse effects of an interven- tion in the ...
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Scientific hypotheses can be tested by comparing the effects of one treatment over many diseases in a systematic review
... Multiple-indication reviews can be undertaken as sys- tematic reviews of primary studies, in which intervention effects are pooled across indications and potential differ- ences in effects are explored ...
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Safety of Bisphosphonates for Postmenopausal osteoporosis: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
... of systematic reviews are through summa- rizing evidence from published systematic reviews on a common topic and applied to guide researchers and cli- nicians finding high quality evidence ...
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An evaluation of harvest plots to display results of meta-analyses in overviews of reviews: a cross-sectional study
... ducting systematic reviews) had a relatively strong un- derstanding of data (and other concepts, ...(including overviews of reviews, systematic re- views, and meta-analyses) is most ...
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Evaluation of the reliability, usability, and applicability of AMSTAR, AMSTAR 2, and ROBIS: protocol for a descriptive analytic study
... non-systematic reviews with meta-analysis or meta-synthesis, reviews that used accelerated SR methods, overviews of reviews, scoping reviews, methodological studies that included ...
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Behavior change interventions and policies influencing primary healthcare professionals’ practice—an overview of reviews
... included reviews are presented in Table ...were overviews of reviews [29–31]. Most reviews (91%) investigated behav- ior change interventions and policies among family phy- sicians primarily ...
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Time-to-update of systematic reviews relative to the availability of new evidence
... Among systematic reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2010, less than half had updates published by June 2017, a relatively small propor- tion had consistent ...
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Case report: a rapid review approach used by the UK National Screening Committee to inform recommendations on general population screening for vasa praevia
... NSC) reviews evidence about existing or potential population screening programmes using rapid review products called evidence ...rapid reviews are developed within the UK NSC ’ s process, consider how the ...
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Prophylactic management of postpartum haemorrhage in the third stage of labour: an overview of systematic reviews
... Quality of evidence in the included reviews was exam- ined using the Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach [44] for outcomes. The GRADE approach is a system that ...
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The implications of biomarker evidence for systematic reviews
... of systematic reviews over the published clinical trials (ratio SR/RCT) of biomarkers and non- biomarkers are shown in the solid line and dotted line of Figure 4 ...many systematic reviews are ...
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Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews
... AMSTAR, if used widely after external validation, could also enable methodological research (i.e. meta-regression of item of AMSTAR and effect size of reviews). Our instru- ment is an attempt to achieve consensus ...
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The value of predicting restriction of fetal growth and compromise of its wellbeing: Systematic quantitative overviews (meta analysis) of test accuracy literature
... A distinction has earlier been made between tests that measure fetal size or growth (e.g. biometric tests) and those that assess fetal wellbeing (e.g. biophysical tests) [7]. Tests of wellbeing are aimed at predicting ...
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Organisational interventions designed to reduce caesarean section rates: a systematic review protocol
... the systematic review search strategy, extraction method, synthesis and appraisal of the quality of published evidence in relation to maternity service organisational interventions that aim to reduce planned and ...
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Who can you trust? A review of free online sources of “trustworthy” information about treatment effects for patients and the public
... on systematic reviews, so is therefore less likely to be ...atic reviews, but none of these is intended for patients and the public (Table ...
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Systematic review of systematic reviews for medical cannabinoids
... In reporting findings from systematic reviews, meta- analytic results were presented preferentially. Odds ratios will exaggerate effects in common conditions (such as studies of people suffering from pain, ...
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