Ann Int Med – Special issue on systematic reviews

In this supplement authors from the North American Evidence-based Practice Centers offer detailed advice on doing systematic reviews, compiling evidence reports, and handling the methodologic challenges of systematic reviews.

Reviews: Making Sense of an Often Tangled Skein of Evidence The Editors
Ann Intern Med.2005; 142: 1019-1020.
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21 June 2005 Volume 142 Issue 12 (Part 2)

Challenges of Summarizing Better Information for Better Health: The Evidence-based Practice Center Experience
A Guide to This Supplement
Mark Helfand, Sally Morton, Eliseo Guallar, and Cynthia Mulrow
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Better Information for Better Health Care: The Evidence-based Practice Center Program and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
David Atkins, Kenneth Fink, and Jean Slutsky
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Topics
Paul G. Shekelle, Sally C. Morton, Marika J. Suttorp, Nina Buscemi, and Carol Friesen
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Technologies
Athina Tatsioni, Deborah A. Zarin, Naomi Aronson, David J. Samson, Carole R. Flamm, Christopher Schmid, and Joseph Lau
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Topics Related to the Delivery, Organization, and Financing of Health Care
Dena M. Bravata, Kathryn M. McDonald, Kaveh G. Shojania, Vandana Sundaram, and Douglas K. Owens
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews That Evaluate Drug Efficacy or Effectiveness
P. Lina Santaguida, Mark Helfand, and Parminder Raina
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews of Economic Analyses
Michael Pignone, Somnath Saha, Tom Hoerger, Kathleen N. Lohr, Steven Teutsch, and Jeanne Mandelblatt
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews of Educational Intervention Studies
Darcy Reed, Eboni G. Price, Donna M. Windish, Scott M. Wright, Aysegul Gozu, Edbert B. Hsu, Mary Catherine Beach, David Kern, and Eric B. Bass
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews That Assess Treatment Harms
Roger Chou and Mark Helfand
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Challenges in Systematic Reviews of Therapeutic Devices and Procedures
Lisa Hartling, Finlay A. McAlister, Brian H. Rowe, Justin Ezekowitz, Carol Friesen, and Terry P. Klassen
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Challenges in Using Nonrandomized Studies in Systematic Reviews of Treatment Interventions
Susan L. Norris and David Atkins
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Dissemination of Evidence-based Practice Center Reports
David B. Matchar, Emma V. Westermann-Clark, Douglas C. McCrory, Meenal Patwardhan, Gregory Samsa, Shalini Kulasingam, Evan Myers, Antonio Sarria-Santamera, Alison Lee, Rebecca Gray, and Katherine Liu
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