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Devereaux PJ, Yusuf S (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). The evolution of
the randomized controlled trial and its role in evidence‐based decision making (Clinical …

With more than 2 million articles published annually in over 20,000 biomedical journals,
Systematic Reviews is a valuable guide to assembling and using the best available medical …

Inconsistency can be thought of as a conflict between “direct” evidence on a comparison
between treatments B and C and “indirect” evidence gained from AC and AB trials. Like …

Systematic reviews can help practitioners keep abreast of the medical literature by
summarizing large bodies of evidence and helping to explain differences among studies on …

Each year up to 20 000 systematic reviews and meta-analyses are published whose results
influence healthcare decisions, thus making the robustness and reliability of meta-analytic …

Healthcare decisions for individual patients and for public health policies should be
informed by the best available research evidence. The practice of evidence-based medicine …

Objectives Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are proliferating as they are an important
building block to inform evidence-based guidelines and decision-making. Enforcement of …

Decision makers in health care are increasingly interested in using high-quality scientific
evidence to support clinical and health policy choices; however, the quality of available …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) advocates the improvement of patient care through the use
of current best research evidence in medical decision making. In practice," best evidence" …