The Navigation Guide - evidence-based medicine meets environmental health: systematic review of nonhuman evidence for PFOA effects on fetal growth

• Published in: Environmental health perspectives Vol. 122; no. 10; pp. 1015 - 1027
• Main Authors: Koustas, Erica, Lam, Juleen, Sutton, Patrice, Johnson, Paula I, Atchley, Dylan S, Sen, Saunak, Robinson, Karen A, Axelrad, Daniel A, Woodruff, Tracey J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 01.10.2014; NLM-Export
• Subjects: Animal growth; Animals; Birth weight; Birth Weight - drug effects; Body weight; Caprylates - toxicity; Citation management software; Criteria; Drug dosages; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollutants - toxicity; Environmental research; Evidence-Based Medicine; Exposure; Female; Fetal Development - drug effects; Fetus; Fluorocarbons - toxicity; Growth; Health; Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Literature reviews; Medical research; Medicine; Methods; Mice; Navigation; Perfluorooctanoic acid; Practice guidelines (Medicine); Pregnancy; Pregnant women; Public health; Review; Risk assessment; Searching; Studies; Systematic review; United States; United States > US

In contrast to current methods of expert-based narrative review, the Navigation Guide is a systematic and transparent method for synthesizing environmental health research from multiple evidence streams. The Navigation Guide was developed to effectively and efficiently translate the available scient...