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The process and importance of systematic reviews
Jacqueline Droogan, Fujian Song1
1NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York.
Nurse Researcher
|October 7, 2016
Summary
Clinical effectiveness requires research-based practice, but keeping up with over two million articles annually is challenging for healthcare professionals. Systematic reviews offer a solution by synthesizing evidence for reliable overviews.
Area of Science:
- Health Services Research
- Evidence-Based Medicine
Background:
- The National Health Service (NHS) prioritizes clinical effectiveness, demanding practice grounded in research over tradition or experience.
- Healthcare practitioners face significant challenges in staying current with the vast and variable quality of biomedical research.
- The sheer volume of biomedical literature (over 2 million articles annually) makes individual critical appraisal difficult for busy clinicians.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the challenges practitioners face in accessing and appraising research for clinical decision-making.
- To introduce systematic reviews as a method for synthesizing research evidence.
Main Methods:
- Defining systematic reviews as a process for systematically locating, appraising, and synthesizing evidence from scientific studies.
- Emphasizing the goal of obtaining a reliable overview of the available research.
Main Results:
- Systematic reviews provide a structured approach to manage and interpret large volumes of research.
- This method aids in overcoming the time, resource, and skill limitations faced by practitioners.
Conclusions:
- Systematic reviews are crucial for ensuring clinical practice is informed by robust research evidence.
- This approach supports evidence-based practice in healthcare by providing synthesized knowledge.
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