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What is a systematic review?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2011

Andrea Cipriani  and
Corrado Barbui
Andrea Cipriani*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona
Corrado Barbui
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona
*
Address for correspondence: Dr. A. Cipriani, Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Piazzale L.A. Scuro, 10 - 37134 Verona, Italy. Fax:+39 045-585871 E-mail: andrea.cipriani@medicina.univ.it
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Starting from this issue of Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale a new Section, called ABC of Methodology, will regularly cover methodological aspects related to the design, conduct, reporting and interpretation of clinical and epidemiological studies. We hope that these articles will help develop a more critical attitude towards research findings published in the international literature and, additionally, we wish to help promote the implementation of original research projects with higher standards in terms of design, conduct and reporting.

Keywords

systematic reviewmeta-analysismethodsstatistics.
Type
ABC of Methodology
Information
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 174 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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