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The book presents, clearly and comprehensively, the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct a foundational comprehensive systematic review (CSR). It encompasses the complexities of the entire process, from asking clinical questions to getting the evidence into practice. The text includes question-specific methods and analysis and compares CSR methods, literature reviews, integrated reviews, and meta-studies. It describes how to find and appraise relevant studies, including the non-published “grey” literature and criteria for selecting or excluding studies, and describes how to use the results in practice.
A systematic review is a collaborative/team-based research project; it is a high-level overview of primary research on a focused question that identifies, selects, synthesizes, and appraises all research evidence relevant to that question.
Your questions to the following questions can help you decide if a systematic review is appropriate and will be a useful format for your investigation of a research question.
1. What is your purpose for this project? What do you hope to accomplish? Some possible purposes:
2. How much research already exists on this topic?
3. What kind of research do you expect to find on your topic? In what types of publications?
4. When do you expect/need to have results ready to submit for presentation/publication/grade/degree?
5. On a daily/weekly basis, how much time do you realistically expect to have available for reviewing abstracts and full-texts, extracting data, evaluating study quality and writing in the above time frame?
6. How many people will be working on reviewing abstracts & full text, data mining and writing of this paper?
How much time will these people have available to work on the project within the proposed time frame?
7. What plans do you have for contingencies in the event one or more study team members cannot complete their portion of the work in the time frame?
FYI--The Systematic Review service is no longer part of the CTSI and there is no longer a voucher system. For questions on conducting a systematic review please contact your HSC Liaison Librarian or your Smathers Libraries Liaison Librarian
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