We performed an evidence-based review to answer 3 questions: Are steroids beneficial?
We performed a formal evidence-based review to answer this question: In patients with unilateral vocal cord paralysis, does AA combined with MT significantly improve subjective and objective voice outcomes compared with MT alone?
"Of course, if I'm going to government, I'm going to challenge the strategic defence review to answer that question in the toughest way – that if it turns out the only way strategically to deliver continuous[ly] at sea is four boats, then absolutely we will have four boats.
The EPPI approach juxtaposes several reviews to answer different subquestions, which together make up a very broad main research question.
We included five systematic reviews and 21 trials (20 of which were randomised) in this review to answer these four questions.
3 This paper describes the literature review to answer the question: "What is the long-term safety of methotrexate, including cardiovascular diseases, malignancies, infections and liver toxicity?".
Policymakers should take into account their quality and the local applicability of their findings when using systematic reviews to answer questions about benefits, harms and costs.
The authors will carry out a realist review to answer the following research question: what are the outcomes of user fee exemption policies implemented in Africa?
The ability of any systematic review to answer the important questions sought from the literature is fundamentally limited by the quality of the studies that are available for review.
Sutkin et al. performed a literature review to answer the question, "What makes a good clinical teacher in medicine?" From 4,914 titles over a century, 68 articles were selected for analysis and 480 descriptors were identified.
There is little guidance on methods to conduct systematic reviews to answer questions about adverse effects, adverse events or patient harms albeit a few methodological reviews explore the challenges (e.g. [ 24, 25]) and the merits of including various study designs (e.g. [ 26, 27]).
