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Newguest Posted 8 years ago
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Throughout the years, the effects of conflicts of interest with the sugar industry were never quantified, until a recent systematic review of systematic reviews was published in 2013 in the journal PLOS Medicine.

--- Does this expression mean that it was the best systematic review? That's why it was called "systematic review of systematic reviews"?

  

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Newguest Does this expression mean that it was the best systematic review? No. Newguest why it was called "systematic review of systematic reviews"?

  • Newguest Does this expression mean that it was the best systematic review?
  • No.
  • Newguest why it was called "systematic review of systematic reviews"?
  • If the sentence is correct and 'of systematic reviews' is not inserted there in error, then the expression means that the previous systematic reviews were themselves reviewed.
  • However, I suspect that it is a typographical error and that the sentence should read: Throughout the years, the effects of conflicts of interest with the sugar industry were never quantified, until a recent systematic review was published in 2013 in the journal PLOS Medicine.
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NewguestDoes this expression mean that it was the best systematic review?

No.

Newguestwhy it was called "systematic review of systematic reviews"?

If the sentence is correct and 'of systematic reviews' is not inserted there in error, then the expression means that the previous systematic reviews were themselves rev

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