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How useful are systematic reviews for informing palliative care practice? Survey of 25 Cochrane systematic reviews

Bee Wee1,2 email, Gina Hadley3* email and Sheena Derry3* email

Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK

Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TD, UK

Pain Research, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Palliative Care 2008, 7:13doi:10.1186/1472-684X-7-13

Published: 20 August 2008

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Included reviews. Details of included reviews.

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Adequacy of included studies. Details of design, size, and quality of primary studies in each review.

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Quality and validity tools. Details of tools used to assess quality and validity in primary studies.

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