- Background Information
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- Evidence Based Medicine
- Review Types
- PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)
- Research Toggle Dropdown
- Tutorials
- Grey Literature
- Finding Dissertations
- Organize and Cite your Sources
- Government & Statistics
Systematic Review Process
There are a number of steps to conducting a systematic review. Each of them is described in more detail under the tabs in the menu on the left.
- Planning for your review
- Formulating your research question
- Developing the protocol
- Searching the literature
- Screening the studies
- Critical appraisal (for risk of bias)
- Extracting the data
- Synthesizing and reporting
Systematic Review Process Map
This interactive systematic review process map developed by the KT program at St. Michael's Hospital takes you briefly through the steps to conduct a systematic review from the beginning to end.