Authorities acknowledge that systematic reviews provide the optimal basis for collecting
and assessing the evidence that bears on patient management recommendations. In his
article introducing JCE's series describing the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ)'s effective health care program, Mark Helfand distinguishes between
systematic reviews and “complex evidence reports” that address a broader range of
questions, including “definition, diagnosis, management, and follow-up of a disease
or condition.” Aside from definition, all these questions appear to us as an examination
of alternative approaches to managing patients. Such issues are best addressed by
structured questions and, if brought together in a single document, constitute a series
of related systematic reviews or overviews of systematic reviews.
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Publication history
Published online: March 02, 2010
Accepted:
January 17,
2010
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© 2010 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
