From: Integration of existing systematic reviews into new reviews: identification of guidance needs
Guidance areas | |||||||||
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Locating and defining appropriate use | Assessing relevance | Assessing review quality | Determining use: Scanning references | Determining use: Search strategy | Determining use: Risk of bias assessment | Determining use: Data abstraction | Determining use: Synthesis | Methods/Results reporting | |
AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program (EPC program) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews[2] | |||||||||
 Reporting the Findings of Updated Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness[6] | ✓ | ||||||||
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) | |||||||||
 Guidelines for Authors of CADTH Health Technology Assessment Reports[7] | |||||||||
Cochrane Collaboration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions[8] | |||||||||
Danish Centre for Health Technology Assessment (DACEHTA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
 Health Technology Assessment Handbook[9] | |||||||||
European Collaboration for Health Technology Assessment (ECHTA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
 Best Practice in Undertaking and Reporting Health Technology Assessments[10] | |||||||||
Health Technology Assessment International | |||||||||
Institute of Medicine | |||||||||
 Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews[11] | |||||||||
Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
 General Methods[12] | |||||||||
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
 The Guidelines Manual, Draft for Consultation[13] | |||||||||
York Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: Systematic Reviews (CRD) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
 CRD’s Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in Healthcare[14] |