Which of the following statements about the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews and meta?analyses are true? (Select all that apply)
A)The review should be considered as a research paper in its own right, and structured accordingly
B)Literature search strategies must be detailed enough to permit their repetition by the reader
C)All funding sources must be specified
D)Weaknesses of the primary data sources (included studies) and of the review itself should be discussed
E)A formal causal argument should be presented in the Discussion

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All of these elements are important.The MOOSE (Stroup et
al., JAMA, 2000 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10789670) and PRISMA
(Liberati et al., BMJ, 2009 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714672/)
guidelines provide valuable information about how to structure and report the results
of a systematic review.

Which of the Following Statements About the Conduct and Reporting