Year: 2007
Type: review
Abstract: This is an important paper and editorial [1,2].Systematic reviews should be much more widespread, and not only for randomized clinical trials of clinical treatments.A paper on an elegant piece of experimental data or on epidemiological observations would be made all the more interesting if the fi rst table were a high-quality assessment of previous studies.In fact, I would suggest that performing a systematic review should be part of a research protocol for any subject, even before the study is initiated.However, this paper confi rms my suspicion that the rising popularity of "systematic reviews" has not been followed by adherence to methodological rigor.With this background, I would like to point out one weakness that may explain part of the current quality defi cit in some systematic reviews.There is a substantial lack of software that can assist in an important part of a systematic review: tracking literature searches and early phase screening.
Source: PLoS Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $6,460
OpenAlex ID: W2108301370