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Table 1 Distribution of reviews across the five medical journals. Numbers in parentheses are percentages

From: A survey of prevalence of narrative and systematic reviews in five major medical journals

Journal

Types of review

CO-Narrative

CO-Narrative with some method.

CO-Systematic

PHPM-Narrative

PHPM-Narrative with some method.

PHPM-Systematic

The New England Journal of Medicine

30 (100)

0

0

0

0

0

The Lancet

6 (5)

70 (59)

12 (10)

23 (20)

6 (5)

1 (1)

The Journal of the American Medical Association

1 (4)

9 (36)

14 (56)

0

1 (4)

0

The BMJ

8 (12)

36 (54)

19 (29)

0

2 (3)

1 (2)

Annals of Internal Medicine

6 (17)

2 (6)

28 (77)

0

0

0

  1. CO clinically oriented, PHPM population health/policy-making
  2. Narrative with some method. Means that the narrative reviews in this sample met one of the criterion (search strategy) that is potentially reproducible