Table 2.
Available guidance/comment on the use of existing systematic reviews
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| Locating and defining appropriate use | Assessing relevance | Assessing review quality | Determining use: Scanning references | Determining use: Search strategy | Determining use: Risk of bias assessment | Determining use: Data abstraction | Determining use: Synthesis | Methods/Results reporting | |
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AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program (EPC program) |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews[2] | |||||||||
| Reporting the Findings of Updated Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness[6] |
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✓ |
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Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) |
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| Guidelines for Authors of CADTH Health Technology Assessment Reports[7] | |||||||||
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Cochrane Collaboration |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions[8] | |||||||||
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Danish Centre for Health Technology Assessment (DACEHTA) |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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| Health Technology Assessment Handbook[9] | |||||||||
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European Collaboration for Health Technology Assessment (ECHTA) |
✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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| Best Practice in Undertaking and Reporting Health Technology Assessments[10] | |||||||||
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Health Technology Assessment International |
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Institute of Medicine |
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| Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews[11] | |||||||||
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Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) |
✓ |
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✓ |
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| General Methods[12] | |||||||||
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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) |
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✓ |
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| The Guidelines Manual, Draft for Consultation[13] | |||||||||
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York Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: Systematic Reviews (CRD) |
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| CRD’s Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in Healthcare[14] |