This paper describes the application of the principles of evidence based medicine to public
health. It recounts the experience of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence …

Meta-analysis is widely used to synthesize the results of multiple studies. Although meta-
analysis is traditionally carried out by combining the summary statistics of relevant studies …

Systematic reviews and accompanying meta-analyses are the cornerstones of evidence-
based medicine. Systematic reviews summarize clinical evidence; meta-analyses provide …

Background The purpose of clinical trials of acupuncture is to help clinicians and patients
make decisions about treatment. Yet this is not straightforward: some trials report …

Meta-analysis is a technique for combining evidence from multiple trials. However, meta-
analyses of studies with substantial heterogeneity among patients within trials—common in …

Objective: State objective of the review (research question with reference to PICOS). 4
Components of the question: PICOS (participants, interventions, comparisons, outcomes …

Abstract Meta-analyses and Individual Patient Data (IPD) meta-analyses of genetic
association studies are a powerful tool to summarize the scientific evidences, however their …

Organic farming, is an agricultural production method that has in recent years gained
increasing prominence. There has been uncertainty over whether this method produces …

Increasing public investment in conservation has been accompanied by growth in
monitoring and research that is generating ever more primary data and associated scientific …

This paper examines the development of clinical pathways (CP) in a hospital in Australia
based on empirical clinical data of patient episodes. A system dynamics (SD)-based …