What is systematic review? There are many different types of occupational safety and health questions and a variety of scientific methods to answer them. Systematic review is one method for comprehensively reviewing a body of scientific literature. It is an explicit and transparent process to identify, select, synthesize, and critically appraise the scientific literature relevant to a specific question. Systematic review methods include: A clear statement of the question that the literature search is intended to address Explicit, pre-specified methods to gather and assess the quality of the evidence that minimizes bias Documentation of criteria for decision making One benefit
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