Do authors of review articles use systematic methods to identify, assess and synthesize information?
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Quality of reviews would improve if author, editors and readers systematically applied any of the sets of criteria now available in the literature, according to published criteria.About:
This article is published in Annals of Oncology.The article was published on 1997-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Systematic review.read more
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Systems to Rate the Strength of Scientific Evidence: Summary
TL;DR: Systematic approaches to assessing the strength of scientific evidence allow evaluation of either individual articles or entire bodies of research on a particular subject, for use in making evidence-based health-care decisions.
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Activity of chemotherapy and immunotherapy on malignant mesothelioma: a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis.
Thierry Berghmans,Marianne Paesmans,Yassine Lalami,Ingrid Louviaux,Sylvie Luce,Céline Mascaux,Anne-Pascale Meert,Jean-Paul Sculier +7 more
TL;DR: The systematic qualitative and quantitative overview of the literature suggests that the most active chemotherapeutic regimen, in term of objective response rate, is the combination of cisplatin and doxorubicin and the best single-agent is cisplarin.
Activity of chemotherapy and immunotherapy on malignant mesothelioma: a systematic review of literature with meta-analysis.
Thierry Berghmans,Jean-Jacques Lafitte,Céline Mascaux,Anne-Pascale Meert,Marianne Paesmans,Jean-Paul Sculier +5 more
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The Medical Review Article Revisited: Has the Science Improved?
Finlay A. McAlister,Heather D. Clark,Carl van Walraven,Sharon E. Straus,Fiona M.E. Lawson,David Moher,Cynthia D. Mulrow +6 more
TL;DR: This study sought to describe the methods used in recently published review articles and determine whether the attention paid to the methodologic shortcomings of review articles has led to improvements in their scientific quality.
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Systematic Reviews: Identifying relevant studies for systematic reviews
TL;DR: Although the indexing terms available for searching Medline for randomised clinical trials have improved, sensitivity still remains unsatisfactory.
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Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the science of reviewing research, including the review process, the review review process itself, and the reviewer's role in reviewing research articles, as well as the process of reviewing the review articles.
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Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials.
TL;DR: It is concluded that an urgent need exists for improved methods in literature searching, quality evaluation of trials, and synthesizing of the results.
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Meta-analysis in clinical research.
TL;DR: Important design and statistical issues of this process of combining study results that can be used to draw conclusions about therapeutic effectiveness or to plan new studies are reviewed.
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The Medical Review Article: State of the Science
TL;DR: It is indicated that current medical reviews do not routinely use scientific methods to identify, assess, and synthesize information.