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Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cochrane book seriesPublication details: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2008Description: xxi, 649 pISBN:
  • 9780470699515
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.72 C6
Summary: Healthcare providers, consumers, researchers and policy makers are inundated with unmanageable amounts of information, including evidence from healthcare research. It has become impossible for all to have the time and resources to find, appraise and interpret this evidence and incorporate it into healthcare decisions. Cochrane Reviews respond to this challenge by identifying, appraising and synthesizing research-based evidence and presenting it in a standardized format, published in The Cochrane Library (www.thecochranelibrary.com). The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions contains methodological guidance for the preparation and maintenance of Cochrane intervention reviews. Written in a clear and accessible format, it is the essential manual for all those preparing, maintaining and reading Cochrane reviews. Many of the principles and methods described here are appropriate for systematic reviews applied to other types of research and to systematic reviews of interventions undertaken by others. It is hoped therefore that this book will be invaluable to all those who want to understand the role of systematic reviews, critically appraise published reviews or perform reviews themselves. (http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470699515.html)
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Table of Contents:

Part 1 COCHRANE REVIEWS

1. Introduction
2. Preparing a Cochrane review
3. Maintaining reviews: updates, amendments and feedback
4. Guide to the contents of a Cochrane protocol and review

Part 2 GENERAL METHODS FOR COCHRANE REVIEWS

5. Defining the review question and developing criteria for including studies
6. Searching for studies
7. Selecting studies and collecting data
8. Assessing risk of bias in included studies
9. Analysing data and undertaking meta-analyses
10. Addressing reporting biases
11. Presenting results and ‘Summary of findings’ tables
12. Interpreting results and drawing conclusions

Part 3 SPECIAL TOPICS

13. Including non-randomized studies
14. Adverse effects
15. Incorporating economics evidence
16. Special topics in statistics
17. Patient-reported outcomes
18. Reviews of individual patient data
19. Prospective meta-analysis
20. Qualitative research and Cochrane reviews
21. Reviews in public health and health promotion
22. Overviews of reviews

Healthcare providers, consumers, researchers and policy makers are inundated with unmanageable amounts of information, including evidence from healthcare research. It has become impossible for all to have the time and resources to find, appraise and interpret this evidence and incorporate it into healthcare decisions. Cochrane Reviews respond to this challenge by identifying, appraising and synthesizing research-based evidence and presenting it in a standardized format, published in The Cochrane Library (www.thecochranelibrary.com).

The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions contains methodological guidance for the preparation and maintenance of Cochrane intervention reviews. Written in a clear and accessible format, it is the essential manual for all those preparing, maintaining and reading Cochrane reviews. Many of the principles and methods described here are appropriate for systematic reviews applied to other types of research and to systematic reviews of interventions undertaken by others. It is hoped therefore that this book will be invaluable to all those who want to understand the role of systematic reviews, critically appraise published reviews or perform reviews themselves.

(http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470699515.html)

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