The UK academic community and social science consultancies in particular have produced several hundred.
Systematic reviews must take a wide ranging and comprehensive approach to searching for relevant research. However, many UK reviewers are failing to search the relevant databases. At best this creates serious bias in the documents chosen for analysis. At worst the review omits relevant documents thus creating a systematic review that is misleading or simply wrong.
For example, a recent systematic review in British Journal of Psychiatry on family relationships in childhood had searched three relevant United States produced databases but failed to search ChildData, Social Care Online or Social Policy & Practice - all produced in the UK and all concentrating on UK research and practice.
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