Identifying systematic reviews: key resources How effective are antibiotics for treating patients with sore throat?The first choice of resource for the practitioner to answer a clinical effectiveness question such as this one should be a systematic review.By systematically searching, assessing, and summarising the research evidence by using rigorous methods, the best systematic reviews present a time saving distillation of the current state of knowledge.The number of systematic reviews has been growing and continues to grow rapidly.This growth has fortunately been accompanied by efforts to identify, collect, and present reviews in easy to access collections.This editorial presents a strategy for searching for systematic reviews of effectiveness by using a selection of the best of these collections.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Julie Glanville (2000) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched one closely related paper. Consider it for comparative context: