OCTY2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Task Analysis, Tute
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Systematic reviews a formal identification, assessment and synthesis of all primary research evidence. Reviews (describe previous work, can be a mixture of evidence and opinions) Systematic reviews for different clinical questions: to determine the effects of interventions do environmental interventions prevent falls, to determine likely course of condition, to determine which assessment to use, to understand meanings/ perspectives. Advantages of systematic reviews o improve the ability to study consistency of results and findings o similar effects across multiple studies/ settings give evidence of robustness. Especially useful if o several studies provide conflicting results: sample sizes are small and results can"t be generalised to population at large o. Disadvantages of systematic reviews o improved power to detect effects can also magnify effect of bias. Steps of systematic reviews: finding studies that include in the sr, assessing studies included in the sr, synthesising studies included in the sr.
