Systematic review
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Systematic Reviews locate, appraise, and synthesise evidence from scientific studies in order to provide informative empirical answers to scientific research questions. They are rigorous reviews of the evidence base from numorous primary studies. They use a method which can be replicated and provide health care professionals with clear guidance for basing their practice on best evidence. They also identify where there are gaps in the evidence base and therefore generate future research questions.
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aims
Systematic Reviews
- adhere to a strict scientific design
- search literature comprehensively
- attempt to minimise bias
- try to maximise reliability
- criticaly and concisely summarise the availale evidence by applying uniform and rigorous standards of appraisal
- limit reviewers' personal biases
- provide more accurate and reliable conclusions
- start with a clear question
- strive to locate all relevant literature
- contain explicit study conclusion and exlusion criteria
- systematically examine primary study method quality
of interest
(PICOD)
- Participants
- Intervention
- Comparisons (controll group)
- Outcomes
- Design
Review Protocol
- background
- research questions
- study inclusion criteria (PICOD)
- search strategies
- method of assessing study validity
- data extraction sheet
- method of data synthesis
- references
