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A Review Of The Methodological Features Of Systematic Reviews In Maternal Medicine, Lumaan Sheikh, Shelley Johnston, Shakila Thangaratinam, Mark D. Kilby, Khalid S. Khan
A Review Of The Methodological Features Of Systematic Reviews In Maternal Medicine, Lumaan Sheikh, Shelley Johnston, Shakila Thangaratinam, Mark D. Kilby, Khalid S. Khan
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Background: In maternal medicine, research evidence is scattered making it difficult to access information for clinical decision making. Systematic reviews of good methodological quality are essential to provide valid inferences and to produce usable evidence summaries to guide management. This review assesses the methodological features of existing systematic reviews in maternal medicine, comparing Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews in maternal medicine.
Methods: Medline, Embase, Database of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) were searched for relevant reviews published between 2001 and 2006. We selected those reviews in which a minimum of two databases were searched and …