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Systematic Reviews: Guidelines & Standards

Guidelines & Standards

The Campbell Collaboration: Producing a Review
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
Curtin University: Systematic Reviews
Duke University: Systematic Reviews: The Process
EQUATOR Network - Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research Resources for writing and publishing health research
Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews
JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools: Anatomy of a Systematic Review
OSF Registry Best place to register a protocol for a scoping review
PRISMA (Preferred Reporting for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses
PRISMA-ScR statement paper
PRISMA for Abstracts
PRISMA for Systematic Review Protocols (PRISMA-P) Checklist for the development of systematic review protocols
Searching clinical trials registers: guide for systematic reviewers BMJ - 26 April 2022
Standards for Systematic Reviews - Institute of Medicine of the National Academies These standards are for systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research of therapeutic medical or surgical interventions.
Systematic Reviews: CRD's guidance for undertaking reviews in health care

Other Resources

Methods for Child Health Reviews Cochrane Child Health
Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR) Specifies methodological expectations for Cochrane Protocols, Reviews, & updates of reviews, and to ensure that these methodological expectations are supported & implemented across The Cochrane Collaboration.
Covidence Helps to improve the efficiency and experience of creating and maintaining systematic reviews
How systematic reviews can reduce waste in research Paul Glaziou and Iain Chalmers, BMJ Blog 29/10/15

Books

Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions by Julian P. T. Higgins (Editor); Sally Green (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470699515
Publication Date: 2008
An introduction to systematic reviews by David Gough (Editor); Sandy Oliver (Editor); James Thomas (Editor)
ISBN: 9781849201810
Publication Date: 2012

A selection books on systematic reviews available for loan.
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How to do a systematic literature review in nursing by Josette Bettany-Saltikov
ISBN: 9780335242276
Publication Date: 2012
Systematic reviews to support evidence-based medicine by Coomarasamy; Jos Kleijnen; Gerd Antes; Regina Kunz; Khalid S. Khan
ISBN: 9781853157943
Publication Date: 2011
Systematic reviews in health care by Paul Glasziou; Chris Bain; Graham Colditz; Les Irwig
ISBN: 0521799627
Publication Date: 2001
Systematic reviews in the social sciences by Helen Roberts; Mark Petticrew
ISBN: 9781405121101
Publication Date: 2005