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| | Evaluating Health Services: A Reporter Covers the Science of Research Synthesis |
 | | In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and other national and regional bodies routinely commission systematic reviews. |
 | | The national research ethics committee in Denmark went a step further, requiring applicants for new studies of primary data to "show by reference to syntheses of existing evidence that proposed new studies were necessary and that they had been designed to take account of the lessons from previous research." |
 | | Growing numbers of nurses, pharmacists, doctors and other health professionals, patients, insurers, policymakers, advocates, health care executives, and journalists are looking to systematic reviews of the evidence to inform their thinking, decision making, and practice. |
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