Overviews of systematic reviews

An overview of systematic reviews (OoSRs) is a study designed to synthesize multiple evidence from existing systematic reviews on a specific domain.There is a range of different types of OoSRs:

  • overviews of intervention reviews
  • overviews of diagnostic test accuracy reviews
  • overviews of reviews of prognosis/prevalence
  • overviews of reviews of risk factors
  • overviews of economic evaluation reviews
  • overviews of qualitative reviews