Part of the Cochrane Interactive Learning course on Conducting an Intervention Review, this module explains how to interpret the findings of your review. In this module you will learn how to interpret the results of your statistical analysis, reporting bias, and use the GRADE approach to judging and reporting on the certainty of evidence.
Synthesis is a stage in the systematic review process where extracted data are pooled together and evaluated.
It is one of the most important stages of the systematic review process, as it determines the outcomes of the review.
There are two commonly accepted methods of synthesis in systematic reviews:
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This division is not absolute, and even if you are conducting a quantitative systematic review, aspects of qualitative data synthesis are relevant in explaining why studies have been excluded differ from the findings of the meta-analysis.