Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe
Umbrella Reviews
Part I. Umbrella Reviews in the Evidence Hierarchy
1. Introduction
Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
2. Evidence Hierarchy
Colin Ng, Umberto Benedetto
3. From Qualitative Reviews to Umbrella Reviews
Ana Ortega, Eduardo Lopez-Briz, María Dolores Fraga-Fuentes
4. Umbrella Reviews, Overviews of Reviews, and Meta-epidemiologic Studies: Similarities and Differences
Michail Tsagris, Konstantinos C. Fragkos
Part II. Sound Design, Conduct, and Reporting
5. Designing the Review
Spyridon N. Papageorgiou, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
6. Registering the Review
Alison Booth
7. Searching Evidence
Su Golder, Kath Wright
8. Abstracting Evidence
Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe Torre, Leonardo Roever, Fabrizio D’Ascenzo
9. Appraising Evidence
William L. Baker, Meg Bennetts, Craig I. Coleman, Joseph C. Cappelleri
10. Statistical Models for Overviews of Reviews
Tzu-Ting Chen, Yu-Kang Tu
11. Bayesian Approach to Evidence Synthesis
Francisco José Vázquez Polo, Miguel A. Negrín, María Martel
12. Appraising Between-Study Homogeneity, Small-Study Effects, Moderators, and Confounders
Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Tania B. Huedo-Medina, Kostas N. Fountoulakis
13. State-of-the-Art Reporting
Akira Onishi, Toshi A. Furukawa
Part III. Case Studies
14. Case Study of Allied Health and Complementary and Alternate Medicine
Saravana Kumar
15. Case Study in Dentistry
Clovis Mariano Faggion, Utsana Tonmukayakul
16. Case Study in Neonatology
David Andrew Osborn
17. Case Study in Nursing
Walter Caro, Anna Rita Marucci, Loreto Lancia, Julita Sansoni
18. Case Study in Orthopedics
Maciej Płaszewski, Josette Bettany-Saltikov
19. Case Study in Prevention
Leandro Fórnias Machado Rezende, Juan Pablo Rey-López, Olinda do Carmo Luiz, Jose Eluf-Neto
20. Case Study of Public Health
Clare Bambra, Marcia Gibson
Part IV. Implementation and Further Research
21. Moving from Evidence to Action
Fabrizio D’Ascenzo, Claudio Moretti, Christian Templin, Fiorenzo Gaita
22. Avenues for Further Research
Dawid Pieper, Lun Li, Roland Brian Büchter
23. Conclusion
Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Clinical Psychology, Nursing
- Editor
- Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Page amount
- 12 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319256559
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-25653-5