Systematic reviews - Do they 'work' in informing decision-making around health inequalities?

Health Economics, Policy and Law

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-211

  Petticrew, Mark ^a   Roberts, Helen ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA MINING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPISTEMOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SATISFACTION; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 41849121553     PISSN: 17441331     EISSN: 1744134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1744133108004453     Document Type: Review

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