Brazilian Nursing Communication Symposium
SIBRACEN

Abstract

Segura Muñoz Susana Inés, Takayanagui Angela Maria Magosso, Santos Claúdia Benedita dos, Sanchez-Sweatman Otto. Systematic literature review and meta-analysis: basic notions about its design, interpretation and application in health research. In: Proceedings of the 8. Brazilian Nursing Communication Symposium [Proceedings online]; 2002  May 02-03; São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 2002 [cited 2024 Apr 20]. Available from: URL: http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000052002000200010&lng=en&nrm=van .

The Systematic Review (SR) and Meta-analysis (MA) are important methodological instruments for evidence-based research in medicine, nursing, and public health. This study gives a detailed description of the necessary steps for conducting SR and MA and presents elements that could be useful for its interpretation and understanding, in order to create factors that can be of help for its application in the health area.

Keywords : systematic review; meta-analysis; health research.