The forest plots and summary statistics you generate in RevMan form the results of your review, but it is essential that you summarize them in the Results section. Make sure you include all the important results, not just those that are statistically significant.

The purpose of the Discussion and Reviewers' Conclusions section of your review is for you to help the reader interpret your results. There are three main things you need to cover:

• Any limitations of your review and the assumptions you have made
• The strength of the evidence
• The relevance of the evidence

Limitations and assumptions of the review

From all the previous modules you have seen that when preparing a systematic review we make many choices, most based on assumptions. All the choices you made that may have affected the results of your review should be outlined in the Methods section of your review, and preferably tested with sensitivity analyses. There may be some aspects of your review (for example that most included trials had methodological flaws, or were small; or that you haven't been able to get the data for some of the included trials, or there is funnel plot asymmetry) that you want to highlight in your Discussion section, along with some thoughts about how these issues may have affected the results of your review.