Memon, Muhammed A. and Khan, Shahjahan and Alam, Khorshed and Rahman, Md Mizanur and Yunus, Rossita M. (2021) Systematic reviews: Understanding the best evidence for clinical decision-making in health care: pros and cons. Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques, 31 (2). pp. 234-240. ISSN 1530-4515,
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In the era of evidence-based decision-making, systematic reviews (SRs) are being widely used in many health care policies, government programs, and academic disciplines. SRs are detailed and comprehensive literature review of a specific research topic with a view to identifying, appraising, and synthesizing the research findings from various relevant primary studies. A SR therefore extracts the relevant summary information from the selected studies without bias by strictly adhering to the review procedures and protocols. This paper presents all underlying concepts, stages, steps, and procedures in conducting and publishing SRs. Unlike the findings of narrative reviews, the synthesized results of any SRs are reproducible, not subjective and bias free. However, there are a number of issues related to SRs that directly impact on the quality of the end results. If the selected studies are of high quality, the criteria of the SRs are fully satisfied, and the results constitute the highest level of evidence. It is therefore essential that the end users of SRs are aware of the weaknesses and strengths of the underlying processes and techniques so that they could assess the results in the correct perspective within the context of the research question.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | systematic reviews; research synthesis; evidence-based decision-making; meta-analysis; level of evidence; study design and bias; evidence-informed |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics |
| Divisions: | Centre for Foundation Studies in Science > Mathematics Division |
| Depositing User: | Ms Zaharah Ramly |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2022 06:28 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2022 06:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/28142 |
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