TABLE 1.

Some differing perspectives about producing and adapting a systematic review

ISSUE	PERSPECTIVES
Developing a partnership for producing and adapting a systematic review	Should we engage with managers and policy makers at the start and end of the review process to set the question and interpret the findings, but let the methodological expertise of the researchers lead the intervening process; or, should we aim for a more iterative and continuing engagement throughout the review?
Framing the question for a systematic review	Should we address a focused question where we can do a good review, but risk its not speaking to many of the issues that managers and policy makers want it to tackle; or, should we tackle a broad question that is highly relevant but involves considerable methodological challenges?
Conducting a systematic review	Should we aim for a review process that is highly specified, routinized, methodologically sound and transparent, but which might be difficult to adapt to a broad question and heterogeneous literatures; or, should we have a more flexible and adaptable review process that can be tailored to fit the question, but risk being less robust, demonstrably rigorous and transparent?
Adapting a systematic review	Should we develop a review process that contributes to a global stock of systematic reviews on which all managers and policy makers can draw and that highlights information that can inform assessments of local applicability and develop (or leave to others to develop) a separate local adaptation process; or, should we combine production and local adaptation processes by incorporating both research evidence and information about managers’ and policy makers’ experiences and assessments of their local context?