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Evidence in context
• Always report results in the context of your assessment of certainty
• Assess the certainty of the body of evidence: –when your analysis is complete
–for each outcome
• The assessment informs your Results, Discussion and Conclusions
• Report consistently throughout the review
What we need to consider?
Do I believe the results from these studies? Risk of bias Are the results consistent across studies? Inconsistency Howdotheseresultsapplytomyquestion? Indirectness Is this effect size precise? Imprecision
Are these all of the studies? Publication bias
Plus: large effect, dose response, opposing confounding
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