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  • Evidence-Based Medicine

Background:

  • Professor Archibald Cochrane advocated for "relevant, valid research" in healthcare.
  • Systematic reviews are considered high-quality evidence sources, but their true systematicity is debated.
  • The evidence-based review landscape includes diverse terminology, tools, and training.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Identify uses and types of literature reviews.
  • Examine key issues in planning, conducting, reporting, and critiquing reviews.
  • Determine factors limiting the claim of systematicity in reviews.

Main Methods:

  • A rapid review methodology was employed.
  • Analysis focused on review articles published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice (IJCP).
  • The review covered articles published between 2010 and 2015.

Main Results:

  • Seventeen review articles from IJCP were identified and analyzed.
  • Variations in the adoption and application of systematic review methods were observed.
  • Common pitfalls in conducting systematic literature reviews were identified.

Conclusions:

  • Despite available tools and guidelines, the research community has not fully adopted them.
  • There is significant variation in the systematicity of published reviews.
  • The question of 'how systematic is systematic?' remains pertinent for all published reviews.