Methods for the Development of Healthcare Practice Recommendations Using Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.

ABSTRACT: Quality of healthcare can be improved when the best external evidence available is integrated in clinical decision-making in a systematic explicit manner. With the rapid expansion of clinical evidence, the opportunities for evidence-based high-quality healthcare increase. Paradoxically, the likelihood of any one person to get a complete and balanced picture of the evidence available decreases. This is especially true for rehabilitation interventions that are complex in nature and where clinical research is rather diverse. Given the complex nature of the evidence, there is a substantial risk of misinterpreting the complex information both at the level of individual sources (e.g., reports of clinical trials) and for aggregated data syntheses (e.g., systematic reviews and meta-analyses). Thes

SUBMITTER: Platz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8297739 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature