New Standards for Systematic Reviews Incorporate Population Health Sciences

Nasser, Mona

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New Standards for Systematic Reviews Incorporate Population Health Sciences Mona Nasser DDS, MSc, PhD Affiliation Mona Nasser is with the Dental School of the Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Mona Nasser, Associate Professor in Evidence based Dentistry, Dental School, University of Plymouth—The John Bull Building, Research Way, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8BU, UK (e-mail: mona.nasser@plymouth.ac.uk). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the “Reprints” link. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305609 Accepted: January 27, 2020 Published Online: May 06, 2020

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This study was conducted in accordance with PRISMA 2020, the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, and the GRADE Handbook.
“This study was conducted in accordance with (1) the PRISMA 2020 statement, an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews (Page et al., 2021); (2) the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Nasser, 2020); and (3) the GRADE Handbook for grading the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations (Schünemann et al., 2013).”
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Authors: Nasser, M.
Affiliations: University of Plymouth (GB)
Corresponding author: Nasser, Mona
ORCID: Nasser, Mona
Venue: American Journal of Public Health
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Published: 2020-06
Volume: 110
Issue: 6
Pages: 753-754
ISSN: 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2020.305609
PMC: PMC7204471
OpenAlex: W3021090073
Cited by: 123
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 19 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 5
Type: book review
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Methodologies in Health Research and Practice
Keywords: population health science, evidence-based dentistry, reporting guidelines

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