TY - JOUR
T1 - Cochrane collaboration-based reviews of health-care interventions
T2 - Are they unequivocal and valid scientifically, or simply nihilistic?
AU - Gatchel, Robert J.
AU - McGeary, Donald
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has received no significant financial support from an outside source, and no conflict of interest is present. None of the authors has a financial relationship with a commercial entity related to this research.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - As medical scientists, we need to avoid becoming onihilistico in dismissing the clinical effectiveness of any treatment because it does not rigidly meet a so-called ospecific quality assessment methodo criteria developed by a particular group. Concato et al. [19] have appropriately emphasized this point. Moreover, Oxman and Guyatt [24], who Hoving et al. [10] cite as providing some of the methodology used in their Cochrane review of nonoperative treatment of neck pain, have clearly discussed the fact that judging the validity of an outcome is frequently not as simple as merely identifying the type of research design used, or simply assessing the general characteristics of a study. This is true for both of the Cochrane reviews we have examined in this editorial. Neck pain, which was the focus of the Hoving et al. [10] Cochrane review, is a common musculoskeletal symptom.
AB - As medical scientists, we need to avoid becoming onihilistico in dismissing the clinical effectiveness of any treatment because it does not rigidly meet a so-called ospecific quality assessment methodo criteria developed by a particular group. Concato et al. [19] have appropriately emphasized this point. Moreover, Oxman and Guyatt [24], who Hoving et al. [10] cite as providing some of the methodology used in their Cochrane review of nonoperative treatment of neck pain, have clearly discussed the fact that judging the validity of an outcome is frequently not as simple as merely identifying the type of research design used, or simply assessing the general characteristics of a study. This is true for both of the Cochrane reviews we have examined in this editorial. Neck pain, which was the focus of the Hoving et al. [10] Cochrane review, is a common musculoskeletal symptom.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1529-9430(02)00407-2
DO - 10.1016/S1529-9430(02)00407-2
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 14589461
AN - SCOPUS:0036758854
SN - 1529-9430
VL - 2
SP - 315
EP - 319
JO - Spine Journal
JF - Spine Journal
IS - 5
ER -