Intervention synthesis: a missing link between a systematic review and practical treatment(s)

Paul P Glasziou; Iain Chalmers; Sally Green; Susan Michie

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001690

Intervention synthesis: a missing link between a systematic review and practical treatment(s)

PLoS Med. 2014 Aug 12;11(8):e1001690. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001690. eCollection 2014 Aug.

Authors

Paul P Glasziou¹, Iain Chalmers², Sally Green³, Susan Michie⁴

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
² James Lind Initiative, Oxford, United Kingdom.
³ Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Paul Glasziou and colleagues discuss methods to guide selection of an intervention from individual trials within a systematic review. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Clinical Trials as Topic*
Humans
Review Literature as Topic*

Grant support

PG is supported by NHMRC Grant 0527500. No funding bodies had any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.