KSIG is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar titled "Screening for studies in systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and other knowledge syntheses: Strategies for improvement" with Patricia Ayala from the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

Date: Tuesday, April 28 2020

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (EST).

Description:

Have you ever screened for studies in a systematic review, a scoping review, or other knowledge synthesis study? Did you find it challenging? Would you like to learn strategies to share with your colleagues, patrons and teams in order to:

• Improve your screening by reducing the number of screening conflicts, and the time spent resolving them?
• Increase screening accuracy among your team?

You will get the most out of this webinar if:

• You understand what a focused research question is, and have developed a focused research before.
• You understand what inclusion and exclusion criteria means, what screening conflicts are, and what first and second level of screening is.

Please Note: This webinar will not cover technologies used for screening (i.e. Covidence) but rather provides tips on the screening process for reviewers. The strategies learned in this webinar can be applied to any knowledge syntheses study in both the first level of screening (title and abstract) and second level of screening (full-text), and used in combination with any screening software solution.

About Patricia Ayala, Research Services Librarian

Patricia Ayala has worked on the development of the Systematic and Scoping Review Service (SSRS) at Gerstein Science Information Centre, focused on collaborating with faculty and researchers engaged in systematic, scoping and other types of method-driven literature reviews. Patricia’s portfolio includes building and deepening relationships with faculty, staff, students and other researchers, on campus, within research institutes, teaching hospitals, national and international organizations. She's part of the team working on the development of PRISMA-Search, the reporting guideline for literature searches. She has a BSc in Biology and a BFA in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina, and Master in Information and Library Studies from the University of Toronto.

Session Materials

Click on the following OSF link for slides from the session as well as examples and screening templates: https://osf.io/fxp6d/

Webinar Recording & Discussion