Background: Systematic reviews have gradually replaced single studies as the highest level
of documented effectiveness of health care interventions. Systematic reviewing is a new …

Each year over 17000 new biomedical books are published [l]. In addition 2 million articles
are published annually in the biomedical literature in more than 20000 journals. In a stack …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Methods to identify studies for systematic reviews of
diagnostic accuracy are less well developed than for reviews of intervention studies. This …

Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are generally accepted to represent the
highest level of evidence, and are a cornerstone in practising evidence-based medicine. So …

The consumer of health care services expects that medical practice is based on scientific
evidence with regard to efficacy and effectiveness. Randomized controlled trials provide the …

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic and
screening tests (in this chapter, we will refer to them generically as diagnostic systematic …

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests
(we will refer to them generically as diagnostic systematic reviews) are appearing more often …

Each year a vast number of biomedical articles and books are published and based on the
articles reviews are written. Such reviews should be performed in a systematic manner …

Systematic reviews of diagnostic test evaluations: what’s behind the scenes? | BMJ
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Objectives: To introduce guidelines for the conduct, reporting, and critical appraisal of meta-
analyses evaluating diagnostic tests and to apply these guidelines to recently published …