This guide has been created to assist team members and researchers at Advocate Health - Midwest who are seeking up-to-date instructions for conducting systematic reviews. Use this guide to learn more about this research process.
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions by
2nd edition - Essential guidance for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews of the effects of health interventions. The handbook will also be of interest to anyone undertaking systematic reviews of interventions outside Cochrane, and many of the principles and methods presented are appropriate for systematic reviews addressing research questions other than effects of interventions. Contains extensive new material on systematic review methods addressing a wide-range of topics including network meta-analysis, equity, complex interventions, narrative synthesis, and automation.
How to Perform a Systematic Literature Review: A Guide for Healthcare Researchers, Practitioners and Students by
1st edition - The systematic review is a rigorous method of collating and synthesizing evidence from multiple studies, producing a whole greater than the sum of parts. This textbook is an authoritative and accessible guide to an activity that is often found overwhelming. The authors steer readers on a logical, sequential path through the process, taking account of the different needs of researchers, students and practitioners.
