Guideline for systematic reviews

Systematic Reviews: Rationale for systematic reviews

Systematic literature reviews including meta-analyses are invaluable scientific activities. The rationale for such reviews is well established. Health care providers, researchers, and policy makers are inundated with unmanageable amounts of information; they need systematic reviews to efficiently integrate existing information and provide data for rational decision making. Systematic reviews es...

Worldwide inequality in production of systematic reviews

Background: Investment in science is vital for the development and well-being of societies. This study aims to assess the scientific productivity of countries by quantifying their publication of systematic reviews taking the gross national income per capita (GNIPC) into account. Methods: Medline and ISI Web of Science were searched for systematic reviews published between 1st January 2006 an...

An Introduction to Living Systematic Reviews

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 20، اردیبهشت 1400، 146-145       درآمدی بر مرورهای نظام‌مند زنده An Introduction to Living Systematic Reviews   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian    تا کنون در سخنان سردبیری مجله دانشگاه، درباره انواع مقالات مروری، مطالب گوناگونی را به رشته‌ تحریر در آورده‌ایم. هدف از نگارش این مقالات، آشنا ساختن خوانندگان و نویسندگان فرهیخته م...

The Development of a Critical Appraisal Tool for Use in Systematic Reviews: Addressing Questions of Prevalence

Background Recently there has been a significant increase in the number of systematic reviews addressing questions of prevalence. Key features of a systematic review include the creation of an a priori protocol, clear inclusion criteria, a structured and systematic search process, critical appraisal of studies, and a formal process of data extraction followed by methods to synthesize, or combin...

Procedures for Performing Systematic Reviews