A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers
Abstract Systematic reviews (SRs) provide a solution to handle information overload for busy clinicians by summarising and synthesizing studies on a specific issue. However, because SRs are complicated and often boring to read, the busy or reluctant reader may make do with the abstract. When, as it...
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| description | Abstract Systematic reviews (SRs) provide a solution to handle information overload for busy clinicians by summarising and synthesizing studies on a specific issue. However, because SRs are complicated and often boring to read, the busy or reluctant reader may make do with the abstract. When, as it has been shown, many authors overstate efficacy or understate harm in their abstracts, not consulting the underlying article could be misleading. This means that the prudent reader must have the ability to identify the ‘tender points’ of SRs to avoid falling for ‘spin’. To this end we briefly review the method of SRs and ways to relatively quickly determine trustworthiness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6f6644a96d043e4905e833c0f43e5df2023-11-20T10:22:21ZengBMCChiropractic & Manual Therapies2045-709X2023-09-013111610.1186/s12998-023-00501-4A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readersStanley Innes0Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde1Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing, Eastern Health, Monash UniversityDepartment of Regional Health Research, University of Southern DenmarkAbstract Systematic reviews (SRs) provide a solution to handle information overload for busy clinicians by summarising and synthesizing studies on a specific issue. However, because SRs are complicated and often boring to read, the busy or reluctant reader may make do with the abstract. When, as it has been shown, many authors overstate efficacy or understate harm in their abstracts, not consulting the underlying article could be misleading. This means that the prudent reader must have the ability to identify the ‘tender points’ of SRs to avoid falling for ‘spin’. To this end we briefly review the method of SRs and ways to relatively quickly determine trustworthiness.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-023-00501-4Systematic reviewEvaluation studiesEvidence-based medicineHealth personnelInformation literacy |
| spellingShingle | Stanley Innes Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers Chiropractic & Manual Therapies Systematic review Evaluation studies Evidence-based medicine Health personnel Information literacy |
| title | A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers |
| title_full | A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers |
| title_fullStr | A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers |
| title_full_unstemmed | A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers |
| title_short | A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers |
| title_sort | guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers |
| topic | Systematic review Evaluation studies Evidence-based medicine Health personnel Information literacy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-023-00501-4 |
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