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Systematic Review Guide

Overview of the Systematic Review process with links to resources

Screening

Screening Results

Screening is a two-part process in which you determine whether each individual article meets your inclusion criteria, and therefore should be included in your review. To reduce bias, you should have a minimum of two reviewers to screen (yourself and someone else from your team)

Results can be exported from databases often in RIS format directly into Reference Management and Systematic Review tools.

Screen Initially by: Title/Abstract of Article then using full text.

Screen using: Inclusion/Exclusion criteria,

Articles should be screened by two or more researchers, independently and in duplicate

Managing disagreements, can use: Consensus, Third reviewer, Compare reasons for exclusion.

 

See 'Reporting' tab on this Guide under 'Overview and Structure'.

Zotero is a reference manager will allow you to organise your references and to download book and article references into your Zotero library

 

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Mendeley is a reference manager software founded in 2007 by PhD students and acquired by Elsevier in 2013

Please note: The newer Mendeley download is called Mendeley Reference Manager; if you download this on a college laptop then download the word plugin through Microsoft Store from this link .  To complete the install for the word plugin you will need to login to Office 365, just follow the prompts, and use your college signon.

 

EndNote is another reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays, reports and articles.