Background To identify the strategies and contextual factors that enable optimal
engagement of patients in the design, delivery, and evaluation of health services. Methods …

Whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student, an established academic or a
professional practitioner, you will, no doubt, have had to write a 'literature review'at some …

Statement of problem Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have emerged as forerunners
of evidence-based dentistry, but assessing the quality of the available research is essential …

Background Closing the gap between research production and research use is a key
challenge for the health research system. Stakeholder engagement is being increasingly …

Revisões sistemáticas e meta-análises se tornaram extremamente importantes na
assistência à saúde. Clínicos as leem para se manterem atualizados em suas áreas, 1, 2 e …

Chapter 1 discussed the ways that reviews examine previous research and other forms of
evidence to answer review questions and how their methods depend upon the questions …

Background The gap between research and practice or policy is often described as a
problem. To identify new barriers of and facilitators to the use of evidence by policymakers …

OBJECTIVE: In the course of performing systematic reviews on the prevalence of low back
and neck pain, we required a tool to assess the risk of study bias. Our objectives were to (1) …

“Whoever you are, and whatever your background, if you want to know what makes a good
systematic review, then get a copy of this third edition by Bettany-Saltikov and McSherry.” Dr …

Background Rapid reviews have the potential to overcome a key barrier to the use of
research evidence in decision making, namely that of the lack of timely and relevant …