RT Book, Section
A1 Smith, Dustin T.
A1 Adhyaru, Bhavin
A2 McKean, Sylvia C.
A2 Ross, John J.
A2 Dressler, Daniel D.
A2 Scheurer, Danielle B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1137605515
T1 Summary Literature: Practice Guidelines and Systematic Reviews
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071843133
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1137605515
RD 2022/08/13
AB Summary  literature  represents  the  highest  quality  of  evidence  and  the  top  portion  of  the  evidence-based  medicine  pyramid.  In  this  chapter,  summary  literature  refers  specifically  to  practice  guidelines  and  systematic  reviews.  If  done  properly,  authors  will  have  performed  a  comprehensive  systematic  review  of  the  literature  available  as  well  as  summarized  findings  from  the  available  literature  for  both  of  these  types  of  manuscripts.  For  practice  guidelines,  the  summary  typically  exists  in  the  form  of  graded  recommendations.  For  systematic  reviews,  the  summary  comes  in  the  form  of  a  meta-analysis  where  a  quantitative  statistical  analysis  is  conducted  of  pooled  data  from  several  separate  but  similar  studies.  Although  articles  featuring  literature  reviews  (ie,  narrative  review,  aka  “review  articles”)  by  authors  exist  for  many  clinical  topics  in  medicine,  the  methods  used  for  reviewing  the  literature  in  these  articles  are  not  necessarily  systematic  or  comprehensive  and  it  is  typically  left  to  the  authors’  discretion  for  which  data  and  studies  to  include.  Table  10-1  offers  a  comparison  of  narrative  reviews,  systematic  reviews,  meta-analysis,  and  guidelines.