Simposio Brasileño de Comunicación en Enfermaria
SIBRACEN

Resumen

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: Anales del 8. Simposio Brasileño de Comunicación en Enfermaria [Anales electrnicos]; 2002  Mayo 02-03; San Pablo, SP, Brasil. 2002 [citado 2024 Mayo 19]. Disponible en: URL: http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000052002000200010&lng=es&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.

Palabras llave : systematic review; meta-analysis; health research.