Systematic Reviews

Welcome to the Systematic Review Infoguide.

Use this guide to discover resources available to you at Mason and online.

• Explore Types of Systematic Reviews - Scoping Reviews, Rapid reviews, Meta-analysis and more
• Prepare Scope, PICO and Prisma - with a sentence explanation of the page
• Search Databases -use tutorials to guide searching of health, business and informatics databases
• Evaluate and Synthesize -  with a sentence explanation of the page
• Get Help - Chat with a librarian or setup an appointment with the Health Sciences Librarian

Khan, K. S., Kunz, R., Kleijnen, J., & Antes, G. (2003). Five steps to conducting a systematic review. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine(3), 118–121.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539417/

• STEP 1: FRAMING THE QUESTION  (PICO, inclusion/exclusion criteria)
• STEP 2: IDENTIFYING RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS (Systematic Search)
• STEP 3: ASSESSING STUDY QUALITY (Screening, evaluation of methodology)
• STEP 4: SUMMARIZING THE EVIDENCE (Extracting data)
• STEP 5: INTERPRETING THE FINDINGS (Synthesis)

VIDEO: Overview of Systematic Reviews https://youtu.be/RdZl-sSgx8c

• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 6.3 2022
•  Aromataris E, Munn Z (Editors). JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis. JBI, 2020. Available from https://synthesismanual.jbi.global.  https://doi.org/10.46658/JBIMES-20-01
• Comprehensive systematic review for advanced practice nursing Cheryl Holly author. Susan Warner Salmond author.; Maria Saimbert  author.; ebrary, Inc. 2017 Includes chapters on Ogranizing and planning a systematic review, developing clinical questions, and ​types of reviews : rapid, scoping, integrated and text and opinion reviews .
• Purssell, E. & McCrae, N. (2020). How to Perform a Systematic Literature Review: A Guide for Healthcare Researchers, Practitioners and Students. Springer International Publishing AG. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-49672-2.pdf
• Application of systematic review methodology to the field of nutrition  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2009
• Aromataris, Edoardo The Systematic Review An Overview. The American journal of nursing. (03/2014) ,  114 (3), p. 47 - 58.   From Joanna Briggs Institute
• Lockwood, C., & Oh, E. G. (2017). Systematic reviews: Guidelines, tools and checklists for authors. Nursing & Health Sciences, 19(3), 273–277. https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12353  Details steps in planning and executing a systematic review
• Tod, D. (2019). Conducting systematic reviews in sport, exercise, and physical activity (1st ed. 2019.). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-12263-8.pdf
• Egger,M.,  Higgins, J. P. T., & Davey Smith, G. (2022). Systematic Reviews in Health Research: Meta-Analysis in Context. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.mutex.gmu.edu/doi/book/10.1002/9781119099369