The medical community has come to accept the need for systematic reviews to guide decisions regarding drugs and surgical therapies, but their use in health policy is only now taking hold. Systematic reviews have summarized the evidence regarding the provision of hospital services by large for-profit companies versus not-for-profit providers.
医疗行业已经接受了在有关药物和手术疗法的决定上需要采取系统评价的观点，但是它们在医疗卫生政策上的运用才刚刚起步。系统评价概括了有关对比盈利性公司与非盈利性服务提供者提供医院服务的证据。