Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

The finest available research findings should be used to influence healthcare decisions for individual patients as well as national health policy. The integration of individual healthcare competence with the best available external healthcare evidence from systematic research, as well as the patient's values and expectations, is the practise of evidence-based medicine.

Systematic reviews seek to discover, assess, and synthesise the findings of all relevant individual research on a health-related topic, making existing information more accessible to decision makers.