Clinics in perinatology
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Clinics in perinatology · Jun 2003
Cochrane neonatal systematic reviews: a survey of the evidence for neonatal therapies.
A survey is reported of 113 systematic reviews of therapies in neonatology, based on 559 eligible randomized trials in total. These reviews were prepared by the CNRG and were published in the Cochrane Library, Issue 3,2001. The median number of included trials per review was 3 (range 0 to 32) and participants 207 (range 0 to 5460). ⋯ Among many reviews finding no evidence of treatment effect, large and potentially important benefits or harms could not be excluded. Most CNRG reviews were current. There is a continuing need to prepare systematic review of therapies not yet covered and to keep an increasing number of reviews up-to-date.