Journal article
Study-design selection criteria in systematic reviews of effectiveness of health systems interventions and reforms: A meta-review
Abstract
At present, there exists no widely agreed upon set of study-design selection criteria for systematic reviews of health systems research, except for those proposed by the Cochrane Collaboration's Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) review group (which comprises randomized controlled trials, controlled clinical trials, controlled before-after studies, and interrupted time series). We conducted a meta-review of the study-design …
Authors
Rockers PC; Feigl AB; Røttingen J-A; Fretheim A; de Ferranti D; Lavis JN; Melberg HO; Bärnighausen T
Journal
Health Policy, Vol. 104, No. 3, pp. 206–214
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
3 2012
DOI
10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.12.007
ISSN
0168-8510