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All in the Family: systematic reviews, rapid reviews, scoping reviews, realist reviews, and more

Three years ago, we founded this journal focusing on publishing systematic reviews, systematic review protocols, and associated methodological development papers. Systematic reviews, which developed in the social sciences in the 1970s, began to gain rapid momentum during the 1990s in response to concerns by policymakers and clinicians about the scientific validity of the prevailing paradigm of ...

All Reviews are Not Created Equal :

Online product review networks play an important role in Internet commerce by transmitting information that customers can use to evaluate products in digital marketplace. These networks frequently include an explicit social component allowing consumers to view both how community members have rated individual product reviews and the social status of individual reviewers. We extend this prior wor...

REVIEWS

All Reviews are Not Created Equal: The Disaggregate Impact of Reviews and Reviewers at Amazon.com

Online product review networks help to transmit information that customers can use to evaluate product quality. The prior literature has found that, in the aggregate, better product reviews lead to higher sales. However, product review networks increasingly include an explicit social component that allows consumers to evaluate individual reviews based on the status of the reviewer and on the “h...

Paediatric medical outpatients: are all those reviews necessary?

The value of and need for paediatric outpatient review attendance as perceived by parents, children, consultants, and general practitioners (GPs) were assessed. One hundred and ninety one parents of 239 children over 7 years of age undergoing review were randomly selected for a semistructured interview. For each parent interviewed, an audit questionnaire was completed after case note review by ...