Biomaterial Database

Umbrella reviews: what they are and why we need them. 2019

Stefania Papatheodorou

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. spapathe@hsph.harvard.edu.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000078202	Systematic Reviews as Topic	Works about a review of primary literature in health and health policy that attempt to identify, appraise, and synthesize all the empirical evidence that meets specified eligibility criteria to answer a given research question. It's conducted using explicit methods aimed at minimizing bias in order to produce more reliable findings regarding the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation that can be used to inform decision making.	Systematic Review as Topic,Umbrella Reviews as Topic,Reviews Systematic as Topic
D016021	Epidemiologic Studies	Studies designed to examine associations, commonly, hypothesized causal relations. They are usually concerned with identifying or measuring the effects of risk factors or exposures. The common types of analytic study are CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; and CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES.	Epidemiological Studies,Studies, Epidemiologic,Epidemiologic Study,Epidemiological Study,Studies, Epidemiological,Study, Epidemiologic,Study, Epidemiological
D039781	PubMed	A bibliographic database that includes MEDLINE as its primary subset. It is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. PubMed, which is searchable through NLM's Web site, also includes access to additional citations to selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE, and links to other resources such as the full-text of articles at participating publishers' Web sites, NCBI's molecular biology databases, and PubMed Central.