KP290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cochrane Library, Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis
10 Jul 2019
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Summarizes the results of available, carefully deigned healthcare studies (controlled trails) Provides a high level of evidence on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions. Judgements may be made about the evidence and inform recommendations of healthcare. These reviews are complicated and depend largely on what clinical trials are available, how they were carried out and the health outcomes that were measured. Review authors pool numerical data about effects of the treatment through a process called a meta-analysis. The authors then assess the evidence for any bene ts or harms from those treatments. Systematic reviews are able to summarize the existing clinical research on a topic. Systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy, and are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care resources. They investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. The reviews are found in the cochrane database in the cochrane library.
