Finding What Works in Health Care
eBook - ePub

Finding What Works in Health Care

Standards for Systematic Reviews

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eBook - ePub

Finding What Works in Health Care

Standards for Systematic Reviews

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About this book

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines.Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process.In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain.Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780309216715
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH
  4. Reviewers
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contents
  9. Boxes, Figures, and Tables Chapter 5
  10. Summary1
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Standards for Initiating a Systematic Review
  13. 3 Standards for Finding and Assessing Individual Studies
  14. 4 Standards for Synthesizing the Body of Evidence
  15. 5 Standards for Reporting Systematic Reviews
  16. 6 Improving the Quality of Systematic Reviews: Discussion, Conclusions, and Recommendations1
  17. A Abbreviations and Acronyms
  18. B Glossary
  19. C Workshop Agenda and Questions to Panelists
  20. D Expert Guidance for Chapter 2: Standards for Initiating a Systematic Review
  21. E Expert Guidance for Chapter 3: Standards for Finding and Assessing Individual Studies
  22. F Expert Guidance for Chapter 4: Standards for Synthesizing the Body of Evidence
  23. G Expert Guidance for Chapter 5: Standards for Reporting Systemic Reviews
  24. H Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Checklist
  25. I Committee Biographies