Quality of Systematic Reviews
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As a systematic review is a scientific exercise, and will influence health care decisions, it should have the same rigour that is expected of all research. The quality of a review, and so it’s worth, depends on the extent to which scientific review methods were used to minimise the risk of error and bias. It is the use of these explicit and rigorous methods that distinguish systematic reviews from the traditional reviews of the literature.
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