How to write systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract

There has been a paradigm shift in the treatment options available to an endodontist. A lot of clinical, as well as laboratory studies, have been published over the last few decades. Often a clinician faces a problem in deciding a treatment plan for a particular clinical problem. Systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analysis (MA) can help to find reliable data for a specific research question. In simple words, the SR and MA are research on all existing literature on a specific research question. The purpose of this article is to provide a step-by-step procedure for conducting SRs and MA.

Keywords

• literature review
• meta-analysis
• systematic review