Links: Systematic Reviews

Ioannidis JP. The mass production of redundant, misleading, and conflicted systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Milbank Q. 2016 Sep;94(3):485-514. PMID: 27620683; PMC5020151.

McKeown S. Building capacity for librarian support and addressing collaboration challenges by formalizing library systematic review services. J Med Libr Assoc. 2019 Jul;107(3):411-419.

Rethlefsen ML. Engaging medical librarians to improve the quality of review articles. JAMA. 2014 Sep 10;312(10):999-1000. PubMed PMID: 25203078.

Mateen FJ.  Titles versus titles and abstracts for initial screening of articles for systematic reviews. Clin Epidemiol. 2013;5:89-95. 

Using PICO or PICO and other question-building frameworks. Murdoch University. https://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/systematic/PICO

Systematic Review Tools

SR Tool Box http://systematicreviewtools.com/

SR-Accererator -  Bond University. Includes Polyglot Search Translator.  http://sr-accelerator.com/#/

Covidence https://www.covidence.org/home

Refworks https://refworks.proquest.com/

Rayan https://rayyan.qcri.org/welcome

DistillrSR https://www.evidencepartners.com/

Systematic Review LibGuides

Flinders University http://flinders.libguides.com/systematicreview 

Yale University http://guides.library.yale.edu/SR/ 

Duke University http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/sysreview

Monash University https://guides.lib.monash.edu/systematic-review

Types of Reviews 

Samnani SS. Review typology: the basic types of reviews for synthesizing evidence for the purpose of knowledge translation. JColl Physicians Surg Pak. 2017 Oct;27(10):635-641. PubMedPMID: 29056126. 

Grant MJ. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Info Libr J. 2009 Jun;26(2):91-108. PubMed PMID: 19490148.

Critical Appraisal Tools

Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015: elaboration and explanation. BMJ 2015;349:g7647

CASP checklists https://casp-uk.net/casp-tools-checklists/

Joanna Briggs checklists https://jbi.global/critical-appraisal-tools

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine https://www.cebm.net/2014/06/critical-appraisal/

Forest Plots

What is a forest plot?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBkG-8Hm7OU  (3 min)

How to interpret a forest plot?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py-L8DvJmDc&t=5s  (5.32 min)

Reviewed: 3/18/2021