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- Stephen Kisely, Alice Chang, Jim Crowe, Cherrie Galletly, Peter Jenkins, Samantha Loi, Jeffrey C Looi, Matthew D Macfarlane, Ness McVie, Stephen Parker, Brian Power, Dan Siskind, Geoff Smith, Sally Merry, and Stephen Macfarlane.
- Committee for Research, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), Melbourne, VICUniversity of Queensland School of Medicine, Wooloongabba, QLD, Australia s.kisely@uq.edu.au.
- Australas Psychiatry. 2015 Feb 1;23(1):16-21.
ObjectivesSystematic reviews are one of the major building blocks of evidence-based medicine. This overview is an introduction to conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses.ConclusionsSystematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) represent the most robust form of design in the hierarchy of research evidence. In addition, primary data do not have to be collected by the researcher him/herself, and there is no need for approval from an ethics committee. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are not as daunting as they may appear to be, provided the scope is sufficiently narrow and an appropriate supervisor available.© The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2014.
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