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Systematic Review: Guides/Manuals
This guide presents tools and advice for conducting systematic reviews.
What are the differences between Systematic and Scoping reviews
While Systematic Reviews and Scoping Reviews have similarities, they are not the same. How do you decide which is the best for you? Covidence has some information to help you decide.
- The difference between a systematic review & scoping reviewCovidence explains the differences between a Systematic Review and a Scoping Review
Guides for Conducting a Systematic Review
- Cochrane Collaboration HandbookThe Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (the Handbook) provides guidance to authors for the preparation of Cochrane Intervention reviews (including Cochrane Overviews of reviews). This is Version 5.1.0 of the Handbook, last edited 20 March 2011.
- Campbell CollaborationGuidelines for producing a Campbell Systematic Review. The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions.
- Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews (IOM)IOM's (2011) standards standards address the entire systematic review process, from locating, screening, and selecting studies for the review, to synthesizing the findings (including meta-analysis) and assessing the overall quality of the body of evidence, to producing the final review report.
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA Statement)The aim of the PRISMA Statement is to help authors improve the reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The focus of PRISMA is randomized trials, but it can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews of other types of research, particularly evaluations of interventions.
- Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (AHRQ)This guide was developed to improve the transparency, consistency, and scientific rigor of those working on Comparative Effectiveness Reviews.
- Systematic Reviews: CRD’s Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in Health CareWritten for those with an understanding of health research but who are new to systematic reviews; those with some experience but who want to learn more. Chapter 6 provides guidance on the identification, assessment and synthesis of qualitative studies to help explain, interpret and implement the findings from effectiveness reviews.
Guides for Conducting a Scoping Review
- JCBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis Chapter 11: Scoping ReviewsThis guide from JCBI gives guidance on doing a scoping review - the reasons you might undertake a scoping review, differences between scoping reviews and other reviews, scoping review frameworks and how to develop your protocol.
- PRISMA extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR)The PRISMA extension for scoping reviews checklist contains 20 essential items that you must report on in a scoping review.
Books and Articles on Systematic Reviews
Systematic Review Tutorials
Recording of UCD Library Seminar on Systematic Reviews
UCD Library Research Toolkit Intro to Searching for Systematic Reviews Part 2
UCD Library Research Toolkit Intro to Searching for Systematic Reviews Part 2
- Yale University Systematic Review TutorialsThis series of tutorials cover the fundamental concepts and general procedure of searching the health science literature in a systematic manner.
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