A Descriptive Analysis of Overviews of Reviews Published between 2000 and 2011

Hartling, Lisa; Chisholm, Annabritt; Thomson, Denise; Dryden, Donna M

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049667

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“…This umbrella review-that is, a systematic review of systematic reviews 23 -was conducted in accordance with the prisma (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines 24 .…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survivorship Care Plans for Breast Cancer Patients: Understanding the Quality of the Available Evidence

2017

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AimThe overall goal of the present study was to contribute to consistency in the provincial approach to survivorship care planning through knowledge synthesis and exchange. Our review focused on the research concerning the physical and emotional challenges of breast cancer (bca) patients and survivors and the effects of the interventions that have been used for lessening those challenges. MethodsThe psychosocial topics identified in bca survivorship care plans created by two different initiatives in our province provided the platform for our search criteria: quality of life (qol), sexual function, fatigue, and lifestyle behaviours. We conducted an umbrella review to retrieve the best possible evidence, and only reviews investigating the intended outcomes in bca survivors and having moderate-to-high methodologic quality scores were included. ResultsOf 486 reports retrieved, 51 reviews met the inclusion criteria and form part of the synthesis. Our results indicate that bca patients and survivors experience numerous physical and emotional challenges and that interventions such as physical activity, psychoeducation, yoga, and mindfulness-based stress reduction are beneficial in alleviating those challenges. ConclusionsOur study findings support the existing survivorship care plans in our province with respect to the physical and emotional challenges that bca survivors often face. However, the literature concerning cancer risks specific to bca survivors is scant. Although systematic reviews are considered to be the "gold standard" in knowledge synthesis, our findings suggest that much remains to be done in the area of synthesis research to better guide practice in cancer survivorship.

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Survivorship Care Plans for Breast Cancer Patients: Understanding the Quality of the Available Evidence

2017

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“…We conducted an umbrella review, a systematic review of systematic reviews 20 in accordance with the prisma (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines 21 .…”

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Survivorship Care Plans for People with Colorectal Cancer: Do They Reflect the Research Evidence?

2016

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AimIn the present study, we synthesized the published literature about the psychosocial aspects of colorectal cancer (crc) survivorship to support an update of the evidentiary base of the survivorship care plans (scps) created in our jurisdiction. MethodsThe psychosocial topics identified in the crc scps created by two different initiatives in our province were used as search criteria: quality of life (qol), sexual function, fatigue, and lifestyle behaviors. An umbrella review was conducted to retrieve the best possible evidence. Only reviews that investigated the intended outcomes in crc survivors and those with moderate-to-high methodologic quality scores were included. ResultsOf 462 retrieved reports, eight reviews met the inclusion criteria for the synthesis. Of those eight, six investigated the challenges of crc survivors and two investigated the effect of physical activity on survivor wellbeing. Our results indicate that emotional and physical challenges are common in crc survivors and that physical activity is associated with clinically important benefits for the fatigue and physical functioning of crc survivors. ConclusionsOur study findings update the evidence and indicate that existing scps in our province concerning the physical and emotional challenges of crc survivors reflect the evidence at the time of their issue. However, the literature concerning cancer risks specific to crc survivors is lacking. Although systematic reviews are considered to be the "gold standard" in knowledge synthesis, our findings suggest that much remains to be done in the area of synthesis research to better guide practice in cancer survivorship.

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“…Since then, SRMA specialists have attempted to develop standards on how to conduct and report such SRMAs and created tools to assess the risk of bias or the quality of SRMAs [5]. Although such frenetic corrective statistical activity implies that SRMAs carry the same flaws as those of the data they dredge, SRMAs have proliferated [6], so that the concept of synthesizing data from two or more SRMAs has gained traction in healthcare research-yielding SRMAs of SRMAs, also named "overviews" [7] or "umbrella views" [8]. New methods for dealing with multiple SRMAs published on the same topic area and methods for displaying outcome data in overviews have been proposed [9].…”

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confidence: 99%