Conducting separate reviews of benefits and harms could improve systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Abstract Guidance for systematic reviews of interventions recommends both benefits and harms be included. Systematic reviews may reach conclusions about harms (or lack of harms) that are not true when reviews include only some relevant studies, rely on incomplete data from eligible studies, use inap...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-04-01
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Series: | Systematic Reviews |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02234-0 |