A brief overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Systematic reviews (SRs) are performed to acquire all evidence to address a specific clinical question and involve a reproducible and thorough search of the literature and critical appraisal of eligible studies. When combined with a meta-analysis (quantitatively pooling of results of individual stud...

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Autores principales: Sriganesh, Kamath, Shanthanna, Harsha, Busse, Jason W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27729699
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.190628
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description Systematic reviews (SRs) are performed to acquire all evidence to address a specific clinical question and involve a reproducible and thorough search of the literature and critical appraisal of eligible studies. When combined with a meta-analysis (quantitatively pooling of results of individual studies), a rigorously conducted SR provides the best available evidence for informing clinical practice. In this article, we provide a brief overview of SRs and meta-analyses for anaesthesiologists.
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spelling pubmed-50379532016-10-11 A brief overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses Sriganesh, Kamath Shanthanna, Harsha Busse, Jason W Indian J Anaesth Review Article Systematic reviews (SRs) are performed to acquire all evidence to address a specific clinical question and involve a reproducible and thorough search of the literature and critical appraisal of eligible studies. When combined with a meta-analysis (quantitatively pooling of results of individual studies), a rigorously conducted SR provides the best available evidence for informing clinical practice. In this article, we provide a brief overview of SRs and meta-analyses for anaesthesiologists. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5037953/ /pubmed/27729699 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.190628 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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