DARE (The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects)

The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination informed Clininf that a structured abstract has been written for our review “Quality-improvement strategies for the management of hypertension in chronic kidney disease in primary care: a systematic review” to be included in DARE.

The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) was established in 1994 to provide the NHS with important information on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organisation of health care.  In part this is achieved by the maintenance of publicly available databases focusing on the quality assessment and critical appraisal of systematic reviews and economic evaluations of health care interventions.

DARE is a collection of quality assessed systematic reviews of health care research identified in the biomedical literature from 1994 onwards.  For those reviews which meet the CRD quality criteria, structured abstracts are written summarising the content and methods used to conduct the review and offering a commentary on the rigour with which the review was conducted.