Systematic reviews can be a very useful decision-making tool because they objectively
summarize large amounts of information, identify gaps in medical research, and identify …

Many people consider systematic reviews to be the best source of information for making
clinical and policy decisions. However, in this issue, Shojania and coworkers describe how …

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 …

Why do people make practice and policy decisions in health care and public health without
reference to relevant research, or only to biased samples of relevant research evidence …

Objectives To identify ways to improve the usefulness of systematic reviews for health care
managers and policy-makers that could then be evaluated prospectively. Methods We …

Background We completed a scoping review on the barriers and facilitators to use of
systematic reviews by health care managers and policy makers, including consideration of …

Background Strong opinions for or against the use of systematic reviews to inform
policymaking have been published in the medical literature. The purpose of this paper was …

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 …

Successful clinical decisions, like most human de-cisions, are complex creatures (1). In
making them, we draw on information from many sources: primary data and patient …

Background Systematic reviews have the potential to inform decisions made by health
policymakers and managers, yet little is known about the impact of interventions to increase …