Determining the scope of the review and the questions it will address

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 13-31

  Thomas, James ^a   Kneale, Dylan ^b   McKenzie, Joanne E ^c   Brennan, Sue E ^c   Bhaumik, Soumyadeep ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cochrane reviews; Healthcare decision making; Logic models; Priority setting exercises; Question formulation; Review question; Stakeholders; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 85078597685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119536604.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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