The sudden flurry of emails around systematic reviews leads me to
remind the list -
There is now a specific systematic reviews discussion list on
mailbase called sys-review
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Personally as both producer and consumer of reviews I am quite all
right with the idea of these being mixed on the evidence-based-health
list. However there are probably a lot of people who fall into one
or other of the camps and it therefore might be best to keep the two
as separately focused fora.
For information on conducting systematic reviews see the following -
all avialable from the Core Library of EBP at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/core.html
ScHARR Introduction to Systematic Reviews [MSWORD6 file]
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/intro.doc
Literature Searching and Evidence Interpretation for Accessing Health Care
Practices
http://www.sbu.se/sbu-site/reports/abstracts/119e/index.html
Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness
CRD Guidelines for Those Carrying Out or Commissioning Reviews
CRD Report Number 4 January 1996
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/report4.htm
Systematic Reviews (Annals of Internal Medicine):
Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Best..., Annals Intern Med
1 Mar 97
Systematic Reviews: Critical Links in..., Annals
Intern Med 1 Mar 97
Using Numerical Results from..., Annals
Intern Med 1 May 97
Locating and Appraising Systematic...,
Annals Intern Med 1 Apr 97
Using Systematic Reviews in
Clinical..., Annals Intern Med 1 Jun 97
How Consumers and
Policymakers Can Use..., Annals Intern Med 1 Jul 97
The Relation between Systematic Reviews..., Annals Intern Med 1
Aug 97 Counsell C.
Formulating Questions and Locating Primary Studies for Inclusion
in Systematic Reviews. Ann Intern Med 1997;127:380-387.
Meade MO, Richardson WS.
Selecting and Appraising Studies for a Systematic Review.
Ann Intern Med 1997;127:531-7.
Quantitative synthesis.....,
Annals Intern Med 1 Nov 97
Integrating heterogeneous pieces of evidence......, Annals Intern Med 1 Dec 97
Andrew Booth BA MSc Dip Lib ALA
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