دانلود کتاب بررسی های سیستماتیک در تحقیقات بهداشتی

Iain Chalmers and Doug Altman edited the first edition of this book, which was published in 1995 and called simply Systematic Reviews. Their foreword focused on the “poor scientific quality of [traditional] reviews of clinical research” and the “disregard of scientific principles,” which may harm decision-making and patient outcomes. Systematic reviews allow a more objective appraisal by systematically identifying, scrutinizing, and synthesizing the relevant studies. Today, more than a quarter of a century and two editions later, systematic reviews and meta-analyses have become widely established, with thousands of such studies published every year. Also, their function has broadened, from the scientific synthesis of evidence to inform clinical practice, the main concern in 1995, to becoming part of the methods toolkit to address a wide range of questions, including evaluation of interventions, diagnosis and prognosis, prevalence and burden of disease, and discovery research.