Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
ISBN-10
0470699515
ISBN-13
9780470699515
Category
Medical
Pages
672
Language
English
Published
2008-11-24
Publisher
Wiley
Authors
Sally green, Julian P. T. Higgins

Description

Healthcare providers, consumers, researchers and policy makers are inundated with unmanageable amounts of information, including evidence from healthcare research. It has become impossible for all to have the time and resources to find, appraise and interpret this evidence and incorporate it into healthcare decisions. Cochrane Reviews respond to this challenge by identifying, appraising and synthesizing research-based evidence and presenting it in a standardized format, published in The Cochrane Library (www.thecochranelibrary.com). The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions contains methodological guidance for the preparation and maintenance of Cochrane intervention reviews. Written in a clear and accessible format, it is the essential manual for all those preparing, maintaining and reading Cochrane reviews. Many of the principles and methods described here are appropriate for systematic reviews applied to other types of research and to systematic reviews of interventions undertaken by others. It is hoped therefore that this book will be invaluable to all those who want to understand the role of systematic reviews, critically appraise published reviews or perform reviews themselves.

Get the book

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Search the book
eBay.com
eBay.com
Search the book

Other editions

Similar books

  • Systematic Reviews in Health Research: Meta-Analysis in Context
    Systematic Reviews in Health Research: Meta-Analysis in Context
    By Julian P. T. Higgins, George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger

    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 ...

  • Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews
    Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews
    By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research

    This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.

  • Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta-Analysis in Context
    Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta-Analysis in Context
    By Matthias Egger, George Davey-Smith, Douglas Altman

    The second edition of this best-selling book has been thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the significant changes and advances made in systematic reviewing.

  • Biology of Plant Volatiles
    Biology of Plant Volatiles
    By Eran Pichersky, Natalia Dudareva

    Features: Combines widely scattered literature in a single volume for the first time, covering all important aspects of plant volatiles, from their chemical structures to their biosynthesis to their roles in the interactions of plants with ...

  • Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis: A Handbook for Healthcare Research
    Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis: A Handbook for Healthcare Research
    By Richard D. Riley, Jayne F. Tierney, Lesley A. Stewart

    Split into five parts, the book chapters take the reader through the journey from initiating and planning IPD projects to obtaining, checking, and meta-analysing IPD, and appraising and reporting findings.

  • Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials
    Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials
    By Curtis L. Meinert, Steven Piantadosi

    We form expert teams (or cores) that can be accessed by all committees when designing, conducting, and analyzing ... Creation of custom software applications helps to address the needs of a group running a wide array of clinical trials.

  • Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
    Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
    By George W. Noblit, R. Dwight Hare

    Meta-Ethnography is well worth consulting for the problem definition it offers." --The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease "This book had to be written and I am pleased it was.

  • How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine and Healthcare
    How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine and Healthcare
    By Trisha Greenhalgh

    The bestselling guide to evidence-based medicine and healthcare Required reading in many medical and healthcare institutions, How to Read a Paper is a clear and wide-ranging introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare, helping ...

  • Systematic Reviews: CRD's Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in Health Care

    For adults. There is a pressing need for methodologically sound RCTs to confirm whether such interventions are helpful and, if so, for whom.

  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
    Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
    By Jacqueline Corcoran, Vijayan Pillai

    But to see their full potential, a social work researcher must be versed in the foundational processes underlying them. This pocket guide to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis illuminates precisely that practical groundwork.