Rather than initiating research, it is designed to evaluate existing studies, in a process known as systematic review.
In October 2008, the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing published a systematic review of omega-3 fatty acids as a treatment for bipolar disorder.
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The third establishes an inter-agency task force to lead a systematic review of detention policies and procedures and a review of all individual cases.
In 2007, researchers at Arizona State University decided to do a systematic review of all the literature on the efficacy of prayer to see what picture emerged.
The authors' analysis -- which was not a systematic review -- was performed mainly for entertainment reasons, although the authors stress that there is a larger lesson to be learned.
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The study, which the researchers believe is the first systematic review of literature on the subject, finds that the technique may be effective in alleviating pain either during or after dental surgery.
The Congress should insist that, until the opportunity afforded by such hearings for a systematic review of that process and the direction of decision-making it is producing, a moratorium should be imposed on further decontrol actions.
To help handle all the new drugs that will be entering experimental tests on humans, Pfizer also recruited Briggs Morrison, who oversaw the oncology pipeline at Merck and was involved in a systematic review of Merck's clinical trials.
Pre-operative statin therapy can reduce the chance of post-operative atrial fibrillation and shortens the stay on the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the hospital in patients who undergo cardiac surgery, according to a new systematic review by Cochrane researchers.
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To help handle all the new drugs that will be entering experimental tests on humans, Pfizer also recruited Briggs Morrison, who oversaw the oncology pipeline at Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and was involved in a systematic review of Merck's clinical trials.
The review board report faulted "systematic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department" and four employees were put on administrative leave.
The West-Clark review is a prime example of the sort of systematic dumbing-down the Brothers have achieved of the military's "situational awareness" - and that of the American government more generally - about the threat posed by them and their fellow stealth jihadists.
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