Suggested Resources on Systematic Reviews

About Systematic Reviews

  1. National Institutes of Health: Systematic Reviews
  2. European Association for Health Information and Libraries. Fifty shades of review (video).  2016.
  3. Chalmers I, Fox DM. Increasing the incidence and influence of systematic reviews on health policy and practice. Am J Public Health. 2016 Jan;106(1):11-3.
  4. Kearney MH. Moving from facts to wisdom: Facilitating synthesis in literature reviews. Res Nurs Health. 2016 Feb;39(1):3-6.
  5. Tricco AC, Cardoso R, Thomas SM, Motiwala S, Sullivan S, Kealey MR, Hemmelgarn B, Ouimet M, Hillmer MP, Perrier L, Shepperd S, Straus SE.  Barriers and facilitators to uptake of systematic reviews by policy makers and health care managers: a scoping review. Implement Sci. 2016 Jan 12;11:4.
  6. Haber SL, Fairman KA, Sclar DA. Principles in the evaluation of systematic reviews. Pharmacotherapy. 2015 Nov;35(11):1077-87.
  7. Kelly M, Dornan T, Yardley S. New opportunities in health care education evidence synthesis.Medical education. Oct 2014;48(10):1029.
  8. Gordon M, Vaz Carneiro A, Patricio M, Gibbs T. Missed opportunities in health care education evidence synthesis. Medical education. Jun 2014;48(6):644-645.
  9. Greenhalgh T. Why do we always end up here? Evidence-based medicine’s conceptual cul-de-sacs and some off-road alternative routes. Int J Prosthodont. 2013 Jan-Feb;26(1):11-5.
  10. Cook DA. Narrowing the focus and broadening horizons: Complementary roles for systematic and nonsystematic reviews. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2008. Nov;13(4):391-5.
  11. Eva KW. On the limits of systematicity. Med Educ. 2008 Sep;42(9):852-3.

Standards and Definitions for Systematic Reviews

  1. Moher D, Shamseer L, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Liberati A, Petticrew M, Shekelle P, Stewart LA; PRISMA-P Group. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement.. Syst Rev. 2015 Jan 1;4:1.
  2. Shamseer L, Moher D, Clarke M, Ghersi D, Liberati A, Petticrew M, Shekelle P, Stewart LA; PRISMA-P Group. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015: elaboration and explanation.. BMJ. 2015 Jan 2;349:g7647.
  3. Wong G, Greenhalgh T, Westhorp G, Buckingham J, Pawson R. RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews. BMC Med. 2013 Jan 29;11:20.
  4. Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group. Core Library of Qualitative Synthesis Methodology. June 2013.
  5. Cook DA, West CP. Conducting systematic reviews in medical education: A stepwise approach. Medical Education 2012; 46(10):943–952.
  6. Institute of Medicine. Finding what works in health care: Standards for systematic reviews. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011. doi:10.17226/13059.
  7. Hammick M, Dornan T, Steinert Y. Conducting a best evidence systematic review. Part 1: From idea to data coding. BEME Guide No. 13. Med Teach. 2010; 32:3-15.
  8. Barnett-Page E, Thomas J. Methods for the synthesis of qualitative research: A critical review. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:59.