A guide to evaluating systematic reviews for the busy clinicians or reluctant readers.

IF 2 4区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies Pub Date : 2023-09-20 DOI:10.1186/s12998-023-00501-4

Stanley Innes, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde

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Abstract

Systematic reviews (SRs) provide a solution to handle information overload for busy clinicians by summarising and synthesizing studies on a specific issue. However, because SRs are complicated and often boring to read, the busy or reluctant reader may make do with the abstract. When, as it has been shown, many authors overstate efficacy or understate harm in their abstracts, not consulting the underlying article could be misleading. This means that the prudent reader must have the ability to identify the 'tender points' of SRs to avoid falling for 'spin'. To this end we briefly review the method of SRs and ways to relatively quickly determine trustworthiness.

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为忙碌的临床医生或不情愿的读者评估系统评价的指南。

系统综述（SR）通过总结和综合特定问题的研究，为繁忙的临床医生提供了一种处理信息过载的解决方案。然而，由于SR很复杂，阅读起来往往很无聊，忙碌或不情愿的读者可能会将就着阅读摘要。正如已经表明的那样，当许多作者在摘要中夸大疗效或低估危害时，不查阅相关文章可能会产生误导。这意味着谨慎的读者必须有能力识别SR的“转折点”，以避免陷入“旋转”。为此，我们简要回顾了SR的方法以及相对快速地确定可信度的方法。

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Chiropractic & Manual Therapies Medicine-Complementary and Alternative Medicine

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

15.80%

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审稿时长

20 weeks

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