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Systematic Reviews in Health Research
Explore the cutting-edge of systematic reviews in healthcare
In this Third Edition of the classic Systematic Reviews textbook, now titled Systematic Reviews in Health Research, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the rapidly evolving area of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. The book demonstrates why systematic reviews—when conducted properly—provide the highest quality evidence on clinical and public health interventions and shows how they contribute to inference in many other contexts. The new edition reflects the broad role of systematic reviews, including:
A key text for health researchers, Systematic Reviews in Health Research is also an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, and instructors in the health sciences needing to understand research synthesis.
Preface
Foreword: Doug Altman’s prescience in recognizing the need to reduce biases before tackling imprecision in Systematic Reviews
Iain Chalmers
Reprint: Altman DG. Some reflections on the evolution of meta-analysis.
Contributors
Companion Website
Chapter No. Title
Rationale
1 Rationale of systematic reviews in health care
Principles and procedures
2 Principles of systematic reviewing
3 Identifying randomized controlled trials
4 Assessing the risk of bias in randomized trials
5 Investigating and dealing with publication bias and other reporting biases
6 Managing people and data
7 Reporting and appraisal of systematic reviews
Meta-analysis
8 Effect measures
9 Combining results in meta-analysis
10 Exploring heterogeneity
11 Dealing with missing outcome data in meta-analysis
12 Individual participant data meta-analysis
13 Network meta-analysis
14 Dose-response meta-analysis
Specific study designs
15 Systematic reviews of non-randomized studies of interventions
16 Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy
17 Systematic reviews of prognostic factor studies
18 Systematic reviews of prediction models
19 Systematic reviews of epidemiological studies of aetiology
20 Meta-analysis in genetic association studies
Cochrane and guideline development
21 Cochrane: Trusted evidence. Informed decisions. Better health.
22 Using systematic reviews in guideline development: the GRADE approach
Outlook
23 Innovations in systematic review production
24 Future for systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Software
25 Meta-analysis in Stata
26 Meta-analysis in R
27 Comprehensive Meta-analysis software
Index
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