Overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews of rehabilitation interventions for persons with rheumatoid arthritis: a mapping synthesis.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews (CSRs), which synthesizes the quality and quantity of available evidence on the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The World Health Organization (WHO) requested Cochrane Rehabilitation the CSRs search to develop the Package of Interventions in Rehabilitation (PIR). We searched the Cochrane Library using the terms "rheumatoid arthritis" and "rehabilitation." We screened the CSRs according to the search strategy based on the methodology developed for the WHO PIR. The search period for the data provided to WHO was between 1 September 2009 and 2019. We updated the search to 1 September 2022 for this paper. We summarized the CSRs identified after the screening process using a

SUBMITTER: Kucukdeveci AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10170526 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature