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Systematic Reviews: Rationale for systematic reviews

Systematic Reviews: Rationale for systematic reviews Systematic Reviews Rationale for systematic reviews Cynthia D Mulrow Systematic literature reviews including meta- a small mountain of information. For example, about are invaluable scientific analyses activities. The 4400 pages were devoted to approximately 1100 rationale for such reviews is well established. Health articles in the BMJ and New England of Journal care providers, researchers, and policy makers are Medicine, combined, in 1992. In a stack, two million inundated with unmanageable amounts of informa- such articles would rise 500 m. Clearly, systematic tion; need reviews to literature is they systematic efficiently review needed to refine these unmanage- integrate existing information and able provide data for amounts of information. Through critical explora- rational decision making. Systematic reviews estab- tion, evaluation, and synthesis the systematic review lish whether scientific findings are consistent and separates the insignificant, unsound, or redundant can be across generalised populations, settings, and deadwood in the medical literature from the salient and This article is thefirst ofa treatment or whether critical series on systematic reviews variations, findings vary signi- studies that are worthy of reflection.2 subsets. ficantly by particular Meta-analyses in Secondly, various decision makers need to integrate particular can increase and the power precision of critical pieces http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The BMJ British Medical Journal

Systematic Reviews: Rationale for systematic reviews

Mulrow, C D
The BMJ , Volume 309 (6954) – Sep 3, 1994
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British Medical Journal
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© 1994 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
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0959-8154
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1756-1833
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10.1136/bmj.309.6954.597
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Abstract

Systematic Reviews Rationale for systematic reviews Cynthia D Mulrow Systematic literature reviews including meta- a small mountain of information. For example, about are invaluable scientific analyses activities. The 4400 pages were devoted to approximately 1100 rationale for such reviews is well established. Health articles in the BMJ and New England of Journal care providers, researchers, and policy makers are Medicine, combined, in 1992. In a stack, two million inundated with unmanageable amounts of informa- such articles would rise 500 m. Clearly, systematic tion; need reviews to literature is they systematic efficiently review needed to refine these unmanage- integrate existing information and able provide data for amounts of information. Through critical explora- rational decision making. Systematic reviews estab- tion, evaluation, and synthesis the systematic review lish whether scientific findings are consistent and separates the insignificant, unsound, or redundant can be across generalised populations, settings, and deadwood in the medical literature from the salient and This article is thefirst ofa treatment or whether critical series on systematic reviews variations, findings vary signi- studies that are worthy of reflection.2 subsets. ficantly by particular Meta-analyses in Secondly, various decision makers need to integrate particular can increase and the power precision of critical pieces

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The BMJ – British Medical Journal

Published: Sep 3, 1994

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