Systematic reviews
Are you planning to write a systematic review?
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Systematic reviews and聽scoping reviews demand a comprehensive literature search and thorough documentation and reporting. A systematic review usually takes a year or more to execute.聽If you desire support from the library, it is best you contact us early on in the process.
The library offers support to PhD candidates and employees at the Faculty of Medicine聽as well as to employees at Helse Bergen.聽For students聽writing literature reviews, courses in literature search and reference management are provided as a part of their studies.聽
The medical library can help you with:
- Searching for systematic reviews on your topic, either published or in progress
- Recommending relevant聽databases聽and other resources
- Creating a search strategy
- Adapting a search strategy聽to various databases聽for an exhaustive聽literature search
- Documenting the search strategies
- Updating searches before publishing
- Transferring聽and聽managing references in EndNote or Zotero
- Deduplication of references
- Propose tools and checklists聽for screening and quality assessment
- Complying to protocol聽and reporting standards
In your systematic review聽project, a librarian may assist you in several ways - either as a consultant or a co-author.
As a consultant, a librarian can guide you in all the parts mentioned above. The librarian may also perform some or all parts of the literature search. As a co-author, the librarian additionally contributes聽to聽the methods section and appendix of the article in order to guarantee a clear and transparent description of the search process.
Preparations for your systematic review
You ought to be familiar with the process of writing a systematic review and its standards.聽 (Module 1) offers a short introduction to systematic reviews. This module is available for free, but requires registration of a Cochrane聽account.
You may register for the introductory course to "Systematic reviews" which you find at the Medical Libray' course calender听听
Contact us
Contact us for scheduling an appointment聽when you are about to start a systematic review or scoping review. For both, an exhaustive literature search is necessary. We ask you to give us a short feedback of how far you have come in the review process in order to provide聽optimal assistance.
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