Reviews and Abstrats

REVIEWS

book reviews

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An Introduction to Umbrella Reviews

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، مهر 1398، 622-621     درآمدی بر مرور چتری An Introduction to Umbrella Reviews   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   آیونیدیس (Ioannidis) در سال 2009 میلادی توضیح روشنی از مرور چتری (Umbrella review) ارائه کرده است. وی توضیح می‌دهد که یک مرور چتری به طور نظام‌مند به جمع‌بندی و ارزشیابی نتایج حاصل از چندین مرور نظام‌مند و ی...

Assessing abstracts of Iranian systematic reviews and meta-analysis indexed in WOS and Scopus using PRISMA

Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis have significant advantages over conventional reviews in that all available data should be presented.  This study aimed to evaluate Iranian systematic reviews and meta-analysis abstracts indexed in WOS and Scopus during 2003-2012 based on PRISMA checklist.    Methods: This is an analytical study. We evaluated 46 article abstracts ...

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 ...