An umbrella review:- Compares, contrasts and summarises related reviews to provide policymakers or practitioners with overall evidence available for a particular topic
- Addresses broad topics or issues and offers a wider picture of evidence on what is known and what remains unknown
- Provides a wide evidence ‘picture’ highlighting consistent or contradictory issues and the reasons why reviews arrived at similar or different results
- Produce ‘fast’ evidence in reduced time frames
- Helps in identifying evidence gaps in reviews
- Provides a platform to standardise and compare causes, interventions, comparisons or outcome across related reviews
Example of a question: Health systems strategies to improve immunisation coverage at Primary Health Care level: an umbrella review
Product: A narrative synthesis of evidence from systematic reviews |