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Defined term · Evidence assessment

Overview of reviews

A review whose unit of inclusion is a published systematic review rather than a primary study. Overlap between the included reviews is assessed and reported, because a primary study counted in…

Document identifier
CEI-GT-019
Series
Defined term
Version
1.0
Published
30 Jul 2026
Last reviewed
30 Jul 2026
Certainty
Not rated

§1Overview of reviews

§1.1Also known as

Umbrella review

§1.2Category

Evidence assessment — Terms describing how the Institute judges and reports the strength of evidence.

§1.3Related terms

  • Evidence synthesis — A document answering a structured question by identifying, appraising and combining the studies that bear on it, according to a protocol registered before the search was…
Compound Evidence Institute · CEI-GT-019 · https://compoundevidence.com/glossary/overview-of-reviews/ · retrieved 30 July 2026
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