3rd Edition
Systematic Reviews to Support Evidence-Based Medicine How to appraise, conduct and publish reviews
Preface
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Additional contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
Steps of a systematic review
Step 1: Framing questions for a review
Step 2: Identifying relevant literature
Step 3: Assessing the quality of the literature
Step 4: Summarizing the evidence
Step 5: Interpreting the findings
Case studies
Case study 1: Review of systematic reviews
Case study 2: Reviewing the safety of a public health intervention
Case study 3: Reviewing the effectiveness of therapy
Case study 4: Reviewing the accuracy of a test
Case study 5: Reviewing qualitative evidence to evaluate patient experience
Case study 6: Reviewing the effects of educational interventions
Case study 7: To use or not to use a therapy? Incorporating evidence on harmful outcomes
Case study 8: Review of clinical practice guidelines
Case study 9: Systematic reviews to assess a prognostic factor
Case study 10: Publishing systematic reviews: Tips and tricks for convincing journal editors and peer reviewers
Glossary
Suggested reading
Index
Biography
Khalid S. Khan is Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Investigator at the University of Granada, Spain and has been Sims Black Fellow of the UK Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Spinoza Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Fellow of the Pakistani College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Javier Zamora is Head of the Clinical Biostatistics Unit at Ramon y Cajal University Hospital and the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology at the Ramon y Cajal Biomedical Research Institute (IRYCIS), Madrid Spain and is Professor of Biostatistics in Maternal and Perinatal Health at the University of Birmingham, UK.
