Applicability and generalisability of the results of systematic reviews to public health practice and policy: a systematic review

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[2] Stead LF(1996)Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't BMJ 312 71-2

[3] Lancaster T(2007)Epidemiology and reporting characteristics of systematic reviews PLoS Med 4 e78-94

[4] Sackett DL(2009)How to assess the external validity of therapeutic trials: a conceptual approach Int J Epidemiol 39 89-5

[5] Rosenberg WM(1999)Measuring the quality of trials: the quality of quality scales JAMA 282 1083-84

[6] Gray JA(1998)The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions J Epidemiol Community Health 52 377-6

[7] Haynes RB(2001)Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials Bmj 323 42-60

[8] Richardson WS(1999)The hazards of scoring the quality of clinical trials for meta-analysis JAMA 282 1054-73

[9] Moher D(1995)Assessing the quality of randomized controlled trials: an annotated bibliography of scales and checklists Control Clin Trials 16 62-41

[10] Tetzlaff J(1998)The Delphi list: a criteria list for quality assessment of randomized clinical trials for conducting systematic reviews developed by Delphi consensus J Clin Epidemiol 51 1235-7

[1] Silagy CA(2001)Use of systematic reviews in clinical practice guidelines: case study of smoking cessation Bmj 323 833-6

[2] Stead LF(1996)Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't BMJ 312 71-2

[3] Lancaster T(2007)Epidemiology and reporting characteristics of systematic reviews PLoS Med 4 e78-94

[4] Sackett DL(2009)How to assess the external validity of therapeutic trials: a conceptual approach Int J Epidemiol 39 89-5

[5] Rosenberg WM(1999)Measuring the quality of trials: the quality of quality scales JAMA 282 1083-84

[6] Gray JA(1998)The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions J Epidemiol Community Health 52 377-6

[7] Haynes RB(2001)Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials Bmj 323 42-60

[8] Richardson WS(1999)The hazards of scoring the quality of clinical trials for meta-analysis JAMA 282 1054-73

[9] Moher D(1995)Assessing the quality of randomized controlled trials: an annotated bibliography of scales and checklists Control Clin Trials 16 62-41

[10] Tetzlaff J(1998)The Delphi list: a criteria list for quality assessment of randomized clinical trials for conducting systematic reviews developed by Delphi consensus J Clin Epidemiol 51 1235-7