Brown School Library Systematic Review Resources and Services

1. Develop a research question. PICO or other question framing devices can be used to clarify your question

2. Define inclusion and exclusion criteria

3. Locate studies

4. Select studies for inclusion

5. Assess quality of studies

6. Extract data

7. Analyze and present results

8. Interpret results

9. Update the review as needed

*Note: These steps are derived from the NIH presentation "Undertaking a Systematic Review: What you Need to Know". 

*Image: Retrieved from https://www.nihlibrary.nih.gov/sites/default/files/SR_Training_oct2015.pdf 

Systematic Review Assistance is limited.  Only brief, basic help can be provided (dependent upon the time constraints of the library staff).

• Systematic Review Assistance Request Form
• Literature Search Tracking Form 
• Memorandum of Understanding
• Organizing Literature Search Results: De-duplicating and Excel
• EndNote: Automatically retrieving full-text from WashU Libraries into EndNote 
• Database Syntax Translation