The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Systematic review and meta-analysis. The two types of reviews, narrative and systematic, are described, as well as the steps for perforiming a systematic review with meta-analysis.
Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Science without sense...double nonsense
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Category Critical appraisal
The hereafter
Other search engines. PubMed is the most used bibliographic search engine, but there are many more such as Embase, the Cochrane’s tools and some metasearch engines such as TRIP. We have already seen in previous posts how to search for information…
Those who have no questions…
Structured clinical question. Any knowledge gap should be formulated as a structured clinical question. Its components are: patients, intervention, comparison and outcome.
The three pillars of wisdom
Critical appraisal overview. We describe a critical appraisal overview, allowing to assess validity, relevance and applicability of medical documents.
A bias by absence
Publication bias in meta-analysis. Publication bias, characteristic of meta-analyzes, is described. Some of the methods to assess the existence of the risk of bias are shown.