Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part F Summarizing the Evidence
Chapter 19. Summarizing the Evidence
Gordon Guyatt, Roman Jaeschke, Kameshwar Prasad, Deborah J. Cook
Using the Guide—Part 2
Topics Discussed:
asthma, magnesium, precision of effects, research outcome, review literature, status asthmaticus, summarizing the evidence, tests of heterogeneity (variability in results)
Excerpt:
"Most systematic reviews document important differences
in patients, exposures, outcome measures, and
research methods from study to study. As a result, the most common
answer to whether eligibility criteria were appropriate—that
is, whether we can expect similar results across the range of patients, interventions,
and outcomes—is perhaps...."
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