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How The People's Review worked.

Everything took place online.

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1: Suggest a Question

All good reviews start with a good question. We asked the YOU to suggest health questions for The People's Review. The People suggested 185 brilliant health questions

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2: Choose the Question

In The People's Review we could only answer one question. In two rounds of surveys, the People voted on their favourite question: Does resistance training make a difference to quality of life or heart health for older adults compared to aerobic exercise?

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3: Plan the Review

All reviews require a clear and detailed plan outlined in a protocol. The People decided how we would answer their favourite question. They decided what we meant by older adults (the population), resistance training (the intervention), aerobic exercise (the comparator) and quality of life and heart health (the outcomes).

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4: Select the Studies

To make sure that we have included all possible studies, we searched wide and far. The People helped sift through 5798 studies to decide which studies were relevant for our review (and which ones were not). With some help from the Technical team finally we included 44 studies in our review. This is known as screening.

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5: Extract the Data

The People took a closer look at the 44 studies included in our review and pulled out key details from each study. This step is called data extraction and brought us one step closer to answering the People's favourite question.

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6: Check for Bias

The People we took an even closer look at the included studies. They involves checking if there are any flaws (also called bias) in how the studies were done to helps us better understand if we can trust the evidence. They did this by using a tool called - risk of bias.

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7: Interpret the Results

The Technical Team pooled all the data together in a forest plot. The People made sense of the results and interpreted what they meant in a real-world setting.

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