Background: Randomized control trials and the use of meta‐analysis in systematic reviews
are the basis of evidence‐based practice. The paper reviews their use in the development of …

Background: The advent of evidence‐based healthcare has seen a rise in the use of
systematic reviews to bring together the findings from research studies. The use of …

Background: Systematic reviews are increasingly being carried out in speech-and-language
therapy and are used by practitioners, service commissioners, policy-makers and …

Background: Within medicine there is an agreed hierarchy of levels of research evidence
with randomized controlled trials at the top and expert opinion at the bottom. When …

Three theses are developed in this article. First, although they share the common goal of
striving toward the best intervention services possible, clinical practice and experimental …

Throughout the educational, medical, psychological, and social sciences, meta-analysis is
the present-day, broadly accepted means for combining many quasiexperiments in a …

Purpose To evaluate the completeness of intervention descriptions in recent randomized
controlled trials of speech-language pathology treatments. Method A consecutive sample of …

With this landmark resource, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and audiologists will
learn to apply best evidence as they make critical decisions about the care of each …

Evidence-based systematic reviews (EBSRs), in conjunction with clinical expertise and
client values, are invaluable tools for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. This …

The aim of this Campbell systematic review is to examine the effectiveness of speech and
language interventions for children with primary speech and language delay/disorder. Thirty …