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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Valerie
dc.contributor.authorDevane, Declan
dc.contributor.authorBegley, Cecily M
dc.contributor.authorClarke, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-11T10:40:17Z
dc.date.available2011-05-11T10:40:17Z
dc.date.issued2011-02
dc.identifier.citationMethodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. 2011, 11 (1):15 BMC Med Res Methodolen
dc.identifier.issn1471-2288
dc.identifier.pmid21291558
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2288-11-15
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10147/129392
dc.description.abstractHundreds of studies of maternity care interventions have been published, too many for most people involved in providing maternity care to identify and consider when making decisions. It became apparent that systematic reviews of individual studies were required to appraise, summarise and bring together existing studies in a single place. However, decision makers are increasingly faced by a plethora of such reviews and these are likely to be of variable quality and scope, with more than one review of important topics. Systematic reviews (or overviews) of reviews are a logical and appropriate next step, allowing the findings of separate reviews to be compared and contrasted, providing clinical decision makers with the evidence they need.
dc.description.abstractThe methods used to identify and appraise published and unpublished reviews systematically, drawing on our experiences and good practice in the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews are described. The process of identifying and appraising all published reviews allows researchers to describe the quality of this evidence base, summarise and compare the review's conclusions and discuss the strength of these conclusions.
dc.description.abstractMethodological challenges and possible solutions are described within the context of (i) sources, (ii) study selection, (iii) quality assessment (i.e. the extent of searching undertaken for the reviews, description of study selection and inclusion criteria, comparability of included studies, assessment of publication bias and assessment of heterogeneity), (iv) presentation of results, and (v) implications for practice and research.
dc.description.abstractConducting a systematic review of reviews highlights the usefulness of bringing together a summary of reviews in one place, where there is more than one review on an important topic. The methods described here should help clinicians to review and appraise published reviews systematically, and aid evidence-based clinical decision-making.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subject.meshFemale
dc.subject.meshHealth Services Research
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshInformation Storage and Retrieval
dc.subject.meshMaternal Health Services
dc.subject.meshMeta-Analysis as Topic
dc.subject.meshReview Literature as Topic
dc.titleMethodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 24 D'Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. vasmith@tcd.ieen
dc.identifier.journalBMC medical research methodologyen
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-22T12:21:58Z
html.description.abstractHundreds of studies of maternity care interventions have been published, too many for most people involved in providing maternity care to identify and consider when making decisions. It became apparent that systematic reviews of individual studies were required to appraise, summarise and bring together existing studies in a single place. However, decision makers are increasingly faced by a plethora of such reviews and these are likely to be of variable quality and scope, with more than one review of important topics. Systematic reviews (or overviews) of reviews are a logical and appropriate next step, allowing the findings of separate reviews to be compared and contrasted, providing clinical decision makers with the evidence they need.
html.description.abstractThe methods used to identify and appraise published and unpublished reviews systematically, drawing on our experiences and good practice in the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews are described. The process of identifying and appraising all published reviews allows researchers to describe the quality of this evidence base, summarise and compare the review's conclusions and discuss the strength of these conclusions.
html.description.abstractMethodological challenges and possible solutions are described within the context of (i) sources, (ii) study selection, (iii) quality assessment (i.e. the extent of searching undertaken for the reviews, description of study selection and inclusion criteria, comparability of included studies, assessment of publication bias and assessment of heterogeneity), (iv) presentation of results, and (v) implications for practice and research.
html.description.abstractConducting a systematic review of reviews highlights the usefulness of bringing together a summary of reviews in one place, where there is more than one review on an important topic. The methods described here should help clinicians to review and appraise published reviews systematically, and aid evidence-based clinical decision-making.


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