It has been identified that the data listed within the above article was incorrectly presented. This is now presented correctly in this article.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: It is not clear if children with high fever are at increased risk for serious bacterial infection (SBI). Our aim was to systematically review if children suffering from high fever are at high risk for SBI. Our data sources were Embase, Medline, and Pubmed; from their inception until the last week of March 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Med Res Methodol
February 2016
Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) form the foundation for guidelines and evidence-based policy in medicine and public health. Although similar systematic reviews may include non-identical sets of studies, and it is recognized that different sets of studies may lead to different conclusions, little work has been published on why SR study cohorts differ.
Methods: We took advantage of concurrent publication of two SRs on the same topic - prevention of child exposure to tobacco smoke - to understand why study cohorts differed in the two reviews.