Occupational health systematic reviews: An overview

Issue title: Workers and the Worksite: Research and Practice

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Schonstein, Eva | Verbeek, Jos H.^;

Affiliations: The University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe, Sydney, NSW 1825, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 93710575; Fax: +61 2 93882885; E-mail: [email protected] | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Cochrane Occupational Health Field, PO Box 93, Kuopio, Finland | Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Academic Medical Center, PO Box 22660, 1100DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Abstract: Systematic reviews have been described by leaders in the field of evidence-based practice as the most powerful and useful evidence available to guide practice. This paper gives a description and analysis of systematic reviews currently included in the Cochrane Database for Systematic Reviews which have been identified by newly formed Cochrane Occupational Health Field as having an occupational health focus.

Keywords: Evidence-based practice, occupational health, systematic reviews

Journal: Work, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 255-258, 2006