The authors discuss some of the practical problems faced by researchers undertaking reviews of complex and cross-disciplinary topics, using the example of mental health and social exclusion. The barriers to carrying out social science and cross-disciplinary reviews are reported and some proposals for overcoming these barriers are made, not all of them tried and tested, and some of them controversial.

How is knowledge constructed in systematic reviews and meta-analysis in healthcare? Drawing on ethnographic data collected during 18 months of fieldwork in a research centre devoted to the development of evidence-based clinical-practice guidelines and systematic reviews, the paper argues that knowledge construction in secondary research in healthcare is structured upon a parallel process of disentanglement and qualification of data.

Systematic reviews (SRs) have become increasingly popular to a wide range of stakeholders. The authors set out to capture a representative cross-sectional sample of published SRs and examine them in terms of a broad range of epidemiological, descriptive, and reporting characteristics. One conclusion was that there were large differences between Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews.

White paper describing how US physicians are using social software.

The authors evaluated the conclusions from Cochrane systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials in terms of their recommendations for clinical practice and research. They concluded that the Cochrane Collaboration needs to include clinical trial protocol summaries with a study design optimized to answer the relevant research questions.

Screenshots and description of proposed Google Health service for patient health information.

This strategy sets out an approach that will strengthen health information and intelligence resources across England. This includes supporting and developing the skilled information workforce in NHS and Local Government organisations.

This article's intention is to give general guidelines to HR managers on how they can facilitate KM among older workers.

Includes articles on evaluating Knowledge Management networks, tools and models.

This study sought to establish the potential contributions made by a range of PubMed tools and services to the use of the database by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners.