Searching far and wide
- Evidence-based On Call, Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, University Dept of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Headington OX3 7JX, UK; bob.phillips@doctors.org.uk
In the field of interventional systematic reviewing, there has emerged a credo that the only way to properly answer a clinical question is to perform an extremely extensive search and integrate all of the RCTs found, regardless of language, publication status, or authorial credentials, as long as the methods are good enough. In order to find all …
