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Title: Over 1000 terms have been used to describe evidence synthesis: a scoping review.
Authors: Pollock D; Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia danielle.pollock@adelaide.edu.au., Hasanoff S; Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Barker TH; Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Clyne B; Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Dublin, Ireland., Tricco AC; Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Queen's University School of Nursing, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.; Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Booth A; Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire UK S1 4DA, Sheffield, South Yorkshire UK S1 4DA, UK., Godfrey C; Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Queen's University School of Nursing, Kingston, Ontario, Canada., Khalil H; School of Psychology and Public Health, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia., Jia RM; JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Taneri PE; Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.; University of Galway College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Galway, Ireland., Saif-Ur-Rahman KM; Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.; University of Galway College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Galway, Ireland., Conway T; Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.; University of Galway College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Galway, Ireland., Konstantinidis M; Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; Institue of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Stratton C; Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Edwards D; Wales Centre For Evidence Based Care, School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, UK., Alexander L; Scottish Centre for Evidence-based, Multi-professional Practice: a JBI Centre of Excellence; School of Health Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK., Carrier J; Wales Centre For Evidence Based Care, School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, UK., Habibi N; School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.; Robinson Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Zaccagnini M; School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada., Stern C; JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Valenzuela C; JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Price C; Albert S. Cook Library, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA., Stone JC; JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Aromataris E; JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Jordan Z; JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Dias M; Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., McBride G; Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Kanukula R; Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Schuenemann HJ; Clinical Epidemiology and Research Center (CERC), Humanitas University & Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy., Mustafa RA; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada., Pearson A; JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Klugar M; Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech Republic: a JBI Centre of Excellence, Czech GRADE Network, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic.; Center of Evidence-Based Education and Arts Therapies: A JBI Affiliated Group, Palacky University Olomouc Faculty of Education, Olomouc, Olomoucký, Czech Republic., Ximena Rojas M; Institut d' Recerca, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain., Alonso-Coello P; Institut de Recerca Sant Pau, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.; Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Barcelona, Spain., Whaley P; Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.; Evidence-Based Toxicology Collaboration at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA., Langendam M; Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Methodology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands., Merlin T; Adelaide Health Technology Assessment (AHTA), School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Straus S; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Knowledge Translation Program, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Moola S; Med Tech Reimbursement Consulting, Hyderabad, India., Alper BS; Computable Publishing LLC, Scientific Knowledge Accelerator Foundation, Franklin, Tennessee, USA., Munn Z; Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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