I have received a few questions about conducting systematic lit reviews. Unlike ordinary lit review, it follows a structured process.
Here it is…. 🧵
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Here it is…. 🧵
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1/ Define your review questions: what are you interested in uncovering?
2/Define inclusion/exclusion criteria: what do you expect the reviewed publications to have? What would make you exclude a publication from your review?
3/Determine search strategy and sources of information: What databases will you search? What search terms will you use. Hint: Boolean operators are helpful.
4/Screen studies: after conducting the search, you will likely get many publications returned. It’s now time to screen them starting from keywords, titles and abstracts first. Then proceed to full text screen.
5/Describe the outcome of your search: use a map to show the full process of search and screen, indicating how the returned publications were screened to reach the few papers you now have.
6/Extract and document the relevant information from the studies in the included papers. It’s the time to go back to your research questions.
7/Appraise the rigour and quality of the studies you have included. Don’t just report what they did or said. You should also have an opinion about their work- critique and give reasons.
8/Synthesise evidence to answer research questions. Put together all the findings from those papers. Provide answers to the research questions based on those.
9/Summaries findings and draw conclusions.
Note: This approach is useful for non-clinical systematic review. A different approach may be necessary for clinical reviews.
Note: This approach is useful for non-clinical systematic review. A different approach may be necessary for clinical reviews.
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