Dear Colleague,
Warm greetings from sunny Suffolk in the East of England.
I am sure you have seen this interesting paper in the Annals.
How Quickly Do Systematic Reviews Go Out of Date? A Survival Analysis.
The objective of the paper is " To estimate the average time to changes in
evidence that are sufficiently important to warrant updating systematic
reviews".
Findings are quite interesting. Full text available @
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/0000605-200708210-00179v1
Warm regards & very best wishes,
Badri
Dr P Badrinath MD BS M.Phil MPH FFPH PhD (Cantab)
Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Affiliated Clinical Lecturer
Suffolk PCT & University of Cambridge
Rushbrook house, Paper mill lane, Bramford, Ipswich, IP8 4DE, Suffolk, UK
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