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Umbrella reviews aim to present an overview of findings from systematic reviews, making conclusions reliant on the quality and accuracy of reporting of included reviews and necessarily resulting in some loss of nuance when findings are pooled.
“First, umbrella reviews aim to present an overview of findings from systematic reviews [282], making conclusions reliant on the quality and accuracy of reporting of included reviews and necessarily resulting in some loss of nuance when findings are pooled.”
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- Authors
- Papatheodorou, S.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Papatheodorou, Stefania
- Venue
- European Journal of Epidemiology
- Published
- 2019-03-09
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 543-546
- ISSN
- 0393-2990 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7284
- OpenAlex
- W2921494313
- Cited by
- 201
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 4 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 12.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- European Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Keywords
- umbrella review, systematic reviews, review methodology, meta-analysis, evidence synthesis
- MeSH terms
- Systematic Reviews as Topic, Humans, Epidemiologic Studies, PubMed
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