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. 2019 Dec 23;8:335. doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-1252-9

Table 1.

Types of questions about healthcare interventions that overviews can examinea

1 Different interventions for the same condition or population.
2 Different approaches to the application of the same intervention for the same condition or population.
3 Same intervention for different conditions or populations.
4 Adverse effects of an intervention for one or more conditions or populations.
5 The same intervention for the same condition or population, where different outcomes or time points are addressed.

aFrom Pollock et al. 2019 Cochrane Handbook chapter on overviews of reviews [draft] [1]