Oxman A D, Guyatt G H
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
CMAJ. 1988 Apr 15;138(8):697-703.
One strategy for dealing with the burgeoning medical literature is to rely on reviews of the literature. Although this strategy is efficient, readers may be misled if the review does not meet scientific standards. Therefore, guidelines that will help readers assess the scientific quality of the review are proposed. The guidelines focus on the definition of the question, the comprehensiveness of the search strategy, the methods of choosing and assessing the primary studies, and the methods of combining the results and reaching appropriate conclusions. Application of the guidelines will allow clinicians to spend their valuable reading time on high-quality material and to judge the validity of an author's conclusions.
应对迅速增长的医学文献的一种策略是依靠文献综述。尽管这种策略效率很高，但如果综述不符合科学标准，读者可能会被误导。因此，提出了有助于读者评估综述科学质量的指南。这些指南侧重于问题的定义、检索策略的全面性、选择和评估原始研究的方法，以及合并结果并得出适当结论的方法。应用这些指南将使临床医生能够将宝贵的阅读时间花在高质量的材料上，并判断作者结论的有效性。
