Systematic reviews and methodology
Systematic reviews of observational studies of risk of thrombosis and bleeding in urological surgery (ROTBUS): introduction and methodology
... of systematic reviews will inform clinicians and patients regarding the trade-off between VTE prevention and ...in systematic reviews of surgical complications, including assessment of risk of ...
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Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions
... a systematic search strat- egy, before commencing the literature search, is funda- mental to appropriate and successful information ...the systematic review and in answering the research ...the ...
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Systematic reviews with language restrictions and no author contact have lower overall credibility: a methodology study
... Methods: All SRs cited by the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines published from October 2006 through January 2012 were included. The main outcome was the overall A Measurement Tool to Assess ...
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Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of primary hypertension: a methodology overview of systematic reviews
... tematic reviews about the use of Chinese herbal medi- cine for the treatment of primary ...excluded systematic reviews that had insufficient information for extracting data, which might introduce ...
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Use of programme theory to understand the differential effects of interventions across socio-economic groups in systematic reviews—a systematic methodology review
... in systematic re- views, this will require a paradigm shift: they will need to move from a positivist stance in considering only ‘ if and what works ’ towards a more realist informed way of thinking to consider ‘ ...
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Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions
... ‘rapid reviews’, compared to full sys- tematic reviews, require further research ...of systematic reviews, including the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK, ...
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Compliance of systematic reviews in veterinary journals with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) literature search reporting guidelines
... a systematic review and actually conducting the review are distinct processes, they are closely ...a systematic review was conducted, whereas incomplete, inaccurate reporting raises questions about the ...
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Patient satisfaction with E-Oral Health care in rural and remote settings: a systematic review protocol
... research methodology or mixed-methods studies. Fur- thermore, no systematic reviews have been carried out on the effect of E-Oral Health technology on patient sat- isfaction in rural and remote ...
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A comparison between two recommendations to conduct and report systematic reviews on drug’s safety
... of systematic reviews reporting adverse drug ...general, systematic reviews reporting adverse drug reactions failed methodo- logically ...the methodology used in systematic ...
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Qualitative systematic reviews of treatment burden in stroke, heart failure and diabetes - Methodological challenges and solutions
... Fourth, the appropriateness and methodology of the quality appraisal of qualitative research is widely debated [27]. We decided to use a previously published method [17] which appealed to our desire for quality ...
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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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Overview of systematic reviews of therapeutic ranges : methodologies and recommendations for practice
... A systematic review is the most robust method for evaluating and synthesizing existing literature on the beneficial and adverse effects of healthcare ...optimum methodology for a systematic review ...
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Assessing harmful effects in systematic reviews
... The methodology for conducting systematic reviews of beneficial effects from RCTs is well established, whereas the methods for systematically reviewing randomised or observational data on harmful ...
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Open Synthesis: on the need for evidence synthesis to embrace Open Science
... publication. Systematic reviews and systematic maps aim to provide a reliable synthesis of the evidence on a particular topic, making use of methods that seek to maximise repeatability and ...
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Gray literature in systematic reviews on population health in the Middle East and North Africa: protocol of an overview of systematic reviews and evidence mapping
... All reviews, SRs, and meta-analyses identified on PubMed will be imported into Endnote [51] and duplicates will be removed by HA; checking of this step will be conducted by ...sampling methodology, health ...
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Partially systematic thoughts on the history of systematic reviews
... of systematic reviews, including the now archived Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) for the effects of healthcare interventions generally ...to reviews relevant to the ...
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The SPARK Tool to prioritise questions for systematic reviews in health policy and systems research: development and initial validation
... Group 1: International experts in the field. We shared the draft tool with six international experts in health policy and systems research and systematic review methodology. The draft tool contained the ...
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Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews
... of systematic reviews, such as those created by Oxman and Guyatt [6] and Sacks ...of systematic reviews ...in systematic reviews ...
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Behavior change interventions and policies influencing primary healthcare professionals’ practice—an overview of reviews
... and systematic re- views [20–22], no recent comprehensive review classifying or evaluating the feasibility or effectiveness of interven- tions and policies in terms of patients’ and professionals’ outcomes ...of ...
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Salutogenically focused outcomes in systematic reviews of intrapartum interventions: a systematic review of systematic reviews
... a systematic review of reviews. This systematic review of reviews constitutes one element of an initiative aimed at developing a minimum core data set of salutogenically-focused outcomes for ...
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