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- Title
The Evidence-Based Practice Silent Enemy: Retracted Articles and Their Use in Systematic Reviews.
- Authors
Herrera-Peco, Ivan; Santillán-García, Azucena; Morán, José María; Goodman-Casanova, Jessica Marian; Cuesta-Lozano, Daniel
- Abstract
Today, evidence-based nursing practice strives to improve health care, ensure adherence to treatment, improve health outcomes, and guarantee patient safety. The main scientific documents that nurses should consult, to obtain the best possible evidence, are systematic reviews and meta-analyses. However, this type of scientific document has a major issue if it uses retracted articles that could directly affect the consistency of the results shown in the reviews. The aim of this commentary is to present the current issue represented by the use of retracted articles in meta-analyses of systematic reviews and how researchers could detect them, through the use of different instruments, avoiding them, and providing a reliable SR or meta-analysis that could be useful for day-to-day clinical and research activities.
- Subjects
EVIDENCE-based nursing; META-analysis; PATIENT compliance; MEDICAL care; PATIENT safety; ENEMIES; NURSING databases
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2020, Vol 8, Issue 4, p465
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare8040465