Evidence for perinatal and child health care guidelines in crisis settings: can Cochrane help?

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is important that healthcare provided in crisis settings is based on the best available research evidence. We reviewed guidelines for child and perinatal health care in crisis situations to determine whether they were based on research evidence, whether Cochrane systematic reviews were available in the clinical areas addressed by these guidelines and whether summaries of these reviews were provided in Evidence Aid.

Methods

Broad internet searches were undertaken to identify relevant guidelines. Guidelines were appraised using AGREE and the clinical areas that were relevant to perinatal or child health were extracted. We searched The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews to identify potentially relevant reviews. For each review we determined how many trials we

SUBMITTER: Turner TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3091544 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature