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Residents-Quality Improvement & Research

Guide for Residents, Fellows and others wishing to do QI projects at Carle

Should you do a Systematic Review?

Systematic reviews take a lot of time and resources. Another type of review might be appropriate for your question.

Carle Library can help you with deciding what type of review to do AND the literature search for your review. 

What type of review is right for you?

Right Review - guidance on methods for the conduct and reporting of knowledge syntheses

UNC offers an excellent Systematic Review Workbook to lead you through the process.

Systematic Reviews - background

These guides from other libraries can provide background. Let me know what questions you have.  Use the PRISMA-P checklist below to develop your PROTOCOL.

Mayo Clinic Libraries

Duke University Medical Center Library

UCLA Library

Washington University St. Louis-Becker Library 

Register your Protocol

Register your protocol. It's free!

PROSPERO accepts registrations for systematic reviews, rapid reviews and umbrella reviews. PROSPERO does not accept scoping reviews or literature scans.

OSF (Open Science Framework) - Register scoping review protocols here. 

Systematic Review SEARCHING

Systematic Review searches should be extensive, well-documented and reproducible.

You should have several "Exemplar articles" -- papers that are on-topic that you use to check against your search strategy. Did the search retrieve these citations? If not, you will need to revise.

Ask for search assistance through the Carle Library (library.request [@] carle.com)

Software

Carle does not have institutional subscriptions to SR software. You can create free accounts for these:

Rayyan

Video -  How to Create a Systematic Literature Review on Rayyan

Citation Management Software

Endnote Basic (free)

Mendeley

Zotero

Comparison - from UI Libraries