September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 16m
English
Figure 6.5
A systematic review or meta-analysis is a research paper in which the authors systematically searched for and summarized the findings of relevant studies on the same topic (see Chapter 5). In fact, systematic reviews or meta-analyses often provide the best available scientific evidence on a topic. Thus, if we find a systematic review or meta-analysis we can save ourselves a lot of time and effort. However, it is too time-consuming to read 768 abstracts to find out whether an article concerns a meta-analysis or systematic review, so we have to find a clever way to filter ...
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