Systematic reviews of health care interventions: An essential component of health sciences graduate programs

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Forbes, D.A.
  • Peacock, S.C.

• Systematic reviews are an objective, rigorous assessment of both published and unpublished research that enable the reviewer to make recommendations to clinicians, policy-makers, consumers, and researchers. The steps in a systematic review include: (a) developing a research question, (b) developing relevance and validity tools, (c) conducting a thorough literature search of published and unpublished studies, (d) using relevance and validity tools to assess the studies, (e) completing data extraction for each study, (f) synthesizing the findings and, (g) writing the report. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the value of providing health science graduate students with the opportunity to learn about the conduct of a systematic review. An example of a thesis utilizing the method of a systematic review is presented.

• Date created

  2004

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Graduate program
  • Systematic reviews
  • Effectiveness

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R39P2WD0F

• License

  © 2004 Walter de Gruyter. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited. The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com.