General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To quantify the benefits and harms of general health checks in adults with an emphasis on patient-relevant outcomes such as morbidity and mortality rather than on surrogate outcomes.

Design

Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. For mortality, we analysed the results with random effects meta-analysis, and for other outcomes we did a qualitative synthesis as meta-analysis was not feasible.

Data sources

Medline, EMBASE, Healthstar, Cochrane Library, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, EPOC register, ClinicalTrials.gov, and WHO ICTRP, supplemented by manual searches of reference lists of included studies, citation tracking (Web of Knowledge), and contacts with trialists.

Selection criteria

Randomised trial

SUBMITTER: Krogsboll LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3502745 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature