Cochrane Handbook
- Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of InterventionsThe Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is the official guide that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions.
Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews
- Standards for Systematic Reviews Report (free download)Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services
Campbell Collaboration
- Campbell Systematic ReviewsThe Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network that produces high quality, open and policy-relevant evidence syntheses, plain language summaries and policy briefs.
Systematic Review Tutorial (Yale)
- Systematic Review TutorialThis series of tutorials cover the fundamental concepts and general procedure of searching the health science literature in a systematic manner. They will mainly focus on systematic searches required by a "systematic review". The goal of these tutorials is to ensure that your search is comprehensive, methodical, transparent and reproducible, so that your conclusions are as unbiased and closer to truth as possible.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- Resources and supportThe Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) specialises in evidence synthesis, assembling and evaluating data from multiple research studies to generate robust evidence to inform health policy and practice.
Basic Steps & Procedures for a Campbell Systematic Review
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)
- PRISMAPRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating randomized trials, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews of other types of research, particularly evaluations of interventions.
Further Reading: Some Books
Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences by Dewey Number: 300.72 PETISBN: 9781405121118Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Doing a Systematic Review by Dewey Number: 362.10723 BOLISBN: 9781446269671Publication Date: 2013-12-20
An Introduction to Systematic Reviews by Dewey Number: 001.4 GOUISBN: 9781849201810Publication Date: 2012-04-05
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions by Dewey Number: eBookISBN: 9780470712177Publication Date: 2008-09-15
