Experiences from conducting systematic reviews of systematic reviews
Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas Grooten, Tony Bohman, Carina Bostrom, Åsa Dedering, Marie Halvorsen, Roman P Kuster, Lena Nilsson‑Wikmar, Christina B Olsson, Graciela Rovner, Elena Tseli, Eva Rasmussen‑Barr · 2026
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Wilhelmus Grooten and a team of eleven researchers reflect on a double layer of evidence work in this 2026 commentary. At Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, they ran two systematic reviews of systematic reviews on exercise therapy for long-term back and neck pain.
Reviews of reviews help readers keep up, since dozens of new reviews appear daily, and merging them can clarify how certain the evidence is. But the method stacks weaknesses: each layer depends on the quality of the studies beneath it, and reviews often disagree. The team weighs these strengths and limits for muscle and joint health, and concludes the approach still adds real value.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas Grooten, Tony Bohman, Carina Bostrom, Åsa Dedering, Marie Halvorsen, Roman P Kuster, Lena Nilsson‑Wikmar, Christina B Olsson, Graciela Rovner, Elena Tseli, Eva Rasmussen‑Barr |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12900 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |