Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 1 , Pages 11-20, January 2011

The art and science of knowledge synthesis

  • Andrea C. Tricco

      Affiliations

    • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Jennifer Tetzlaff

      Affiliations

    • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • David Moher

      Affiliations

    • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. +Tel.: 613-738-3591; fax: 613-739-6266.

Accepted 25 November 2009. published online 02 March 2010.

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 Potential competing interests: J.T., A.C.T., and D.M. are members of the Cochrane Collaboration. Parts of this article were published in the following textbook chapter: J.T., A.C.T., and D.M. Chapter 2.2 Knowledge synthesis. In: Stauss S, Tetroe J, Graham I, eds. Knowledge Translation in Health Care: Moving Evidence to Practice. NJ, Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2009.

 Funding: At the time of study conduct, A.C.T. was funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award, a University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, and a CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research Rising Star Award. D.M. was funded by a University of Ottawa Research Chair. The funders had no role in any of the following activities: study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the report; and decision to submit the report for publication.

PII: S0895-4356(09)00361-8

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.11.007

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 1 , Pages 11-20, January 2011

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