Reflections on the history of systematic reviews

@article{Clarke2018ReflectionsOT,  title={Reflections on the history of systematic reviews},  author={Michael Clarke and Iain Chalmers},  journal={BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine},  year={2018},  volume={23},  pages={121 - 122},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:49311760}}
As the principles and practice of EBM have become more accepted and widespread over the last few decades, there has been an accompanying tremendous growth in the number of systematic reviews and wider recognition of their value.

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