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A practical guide to systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses in infection prevention: Planning, challenges, and execution.

Schweizer ML, Nair R. A practical guide to systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses in infection prevention: Planning, challenges, and execution. American journal of infection control. 2017 Nov 1; 45(11):1292-1294.

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Systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses are important research designs used to summarize and derive conclusions about the collective evidence on a focused research question in a structured, reproducible manner. The goal of this Methodology Minute is to describe how to conduct a systematic literature review and meta-analysis using a step-by-step approach to help infection preventionists (IPs) and others in the field perform their own systematic literature review and meta-analysis, and to critically evaluate published systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses.




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