Medicine & Health Sciences: Help & Training

The library can assist you with systematic reviews. We can help in the design and management of systematic, comprehensive searches in multiple databases.

We can support you with:

• Developing and managing search strategies.

Please allow adequate time for completion of the reviews and search strategies.  Please also complete the Cochrane Interactive Learning Modules prior to making an appointment with the librarian - see:  Cochrane Interactive Learning

The Library can provide advice, support and training on:

• Scoping literature searches for review protocols
• Developing search strategies
• Database selection
• Identifying grey literature
• Setting up search alerts
• Reporting search methodology

• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews and Interventions
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Comprehensive searching for systematic reviews: a comparison of database performance - CRD
• Conducting a systematic review - University of Nottingham
• Finding studies for systematic reviews: a resource list for researchers - CRD
• Forest plots: interpretation - UCL
• PRISMA - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
• Reviewing the results of systematic reviews - CRD
• Systematic reviews: CRD's guidance for undertaking reviews in health care

Some excellent tutorials on Systematic Reviews and how to use them.