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Benefits of a systematic review

For HDR candidates, conducting a systematic review provides several benefits: 

  • It fulfils the request made by your supervisor to conduct the systematic review. 
  • It contributes to your thesis. 
  • The paper can be published. 
  • It contributes to your research knowledge of the topic. 

More generally, a systematic review has additional advantages: 

  • It is considered the highest level in the hierarchy of literature evidence.
  • It provides a definitive answer to a question, commonly about therapy, prevention, and causes of disease or harm.
  • The methods used to find and select studies reduce bias and are more likely to produce reliable and accurate conclusions. 
  • It summarises findings from multiple studies, reducing bias when drawing conclusions and making the findings more reliable.
  • Findings might be applied to everyday practice or to inform policy. 
  • It identifies knowledge gaps that call for more research.

Image: “File:Evidence-based Medicine (EBM).png” by Tingjoh is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

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