Study designs: Part 7 - Systematic reviews

Perspectives in Clinical Research
Priya Ranganathan, Rakesh Aggarwal

Abstract

In this series on research study designs, we have so far looked at different types of primary research designs which attempt to answer a specific question. In this segment, we discuss systematic review, which is a study design used to summarize the results of several primary research studies. Systematic reviews often also use meta-analysis, which is a statistical tool to mathematically collate the results of various research studies to obtain a pooled estimate of treatment effect; this will be discussed in the next article.

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Jul 26, 2005·Archives of Disease in Childhood·A K Akobeng
Oct 28, 2019·Perspectives in Clinical Research·Rakesh Aggarwal, Priya Ranganathan
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