Clinical systematic reviews – a brief overview

OBJECTIVE: Systematic reviews answer research questions through a defined methodology. It is a complex task and multiple articles need to be referred to acquire wide range of required knowledge to conduct a systematic review. The aim of this article is to bring the process into a single paper. METHO...

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Autores principales: Iddagoda, Mayura Thilanka, Flicker, Leon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10565970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37817086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02047-8
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description OBJECTIVE: Systematic reviews answer research questions through a defined methodology. It is a complex task and multiple articles need to be referred to acquire wide range of required knowledge to conduct a systematic review. The aim of this article is to bring the process into a single paper. METHOD: The statistical concepts and sequence of steps to conduct a systematic review or a meta-analysis are examined by authors. RESULTS: The process of conducting a clinical systematic review is described in seven manageable steps in this article. Each step is explained with examples to understand the method evidently. CONCLUSION: A complex process of conducting a systematic review is presented simply in a single article.
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spelling pubmed-105659702023-10-12 Clinical systematic reviews – a brief overview Iddagoda, Mayura Thilanka Flicker, Leon BMC Med Res Methodol Review OBJECTIVE: Systematic reviews answer research questions through a defined methodology. It is a complex task and multiple articles need to be referred to acquire wide range of required knowledge to conduct a systematic review. The aim of this article is to bring the process into a single paper. METHOD: The statistical concepts and sequence of steps to conduct a systematic review or a meta-analysis are examined by authors. RESULTS: The process of conducting a clinical systematic review is described in seven manageable steps in this article. Each step is explained with examples to understand the method evidently. CONCLUSION: A complex process of conducting a systematic review is presented simply in a single article. BioMed Central 2023-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10565970/ /pubmed/37817086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02047-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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