Systematic Reviews Caucus
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About
Welcome to the public page of the MLA Systematic Review Caucus! The purpose of this Caucus is to support and educate librarians involved in the demanding, increasingly popular and evolving research method of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. To that end, we offer:
- a vibrant forum for peer input into questions from fellow librarians about systematic reviews;
- a regularly updated list of resources for systematic reviews as well as tips and FAQs; and
- Systematic Review specialization information.
In addition, we regularly post news items and features on MLAConnect.
If you’d like to help us with caucus tasks and initiatives, we welcome your involvement - please contact the chair or chair-elect! We’d also love to hear from you on our forum!
Best regards,
Stephanie Roth. AHIP, Chair
Leila Ledbetter, AHIP, Chair-Elect
MLA Systematic Review Caucus - https://www.mlanet.org/page/caucus-systematic
Public Resources
The SR caucus would like to collect a set of resources that are useful for all librarians supporting or conducting systematic reviews. Below is the beginning of that list.
Organizations which support, collect, or conduct systematic reviews:
- Campbell Collaboration: international research network that produces and supports systematic reviews of effects of social interventions in Crime & Justice, Education, International Development, and Social Welfare.
- Cochrane Collaboration: international network that conducts and supports systematic reviews of effects of clinical interventions
- EPPI-Centre: Evidencefor Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre collects, produces, and supports systematic reviews through databases, software, and courses
- Joanna Briggs Institute: international research center which supports and conducts systematic reviews
Other links:
- SR toolbox: database of potential tools for conducting reviews
Standards for reviews
- AMSTAR: A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews
- Methodological standards for the conduct of new Cochrane Intervention Reviews
- PRISMA statement: PRISMA stands for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Provides standards for reporting systematic reviews as journal articles, abstracts, posters, and more
Databases of reviews
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice reports
- Allied Health Evidence, 4 databases in one:
- PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database
- OT Seeker: Occupational Therapy systematic evaluation of evidence
- PsycBITE: Psychological Database for Brain Impairment Treatment Efficacy
- speechBITE: Speech pathology database for best interventions and treatment efficacy
- Bandolier: clinical focus, esp. pain; includes EBM glossary
- Campbell Collaboration: systematic reviews on crime & justice, education, and social welfare
- CanChild: Centre for Childhood Disability Research
- CASE (Culuture And Sport Evidence): database on the drivers, impact, and value of engagement in culture and sport
- Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry: from American Dentistry Association includes systematic reviews and critical summaries in dentistry
- Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: includes guides on how to conduct systematic reviews and more
- Center for Evidence Based Mental Health: few reviews; tutorials and other resources
- Cochrane Library database of systematic reviews and meta analysis (free version)
- Collaboration for Environmental Evidence: based in UK, includes reviews on environmental issues
- Community Guide: evidence based recommendations for programs to promote community health
- DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects)
- Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER) register of health promotion reivews (EPPI Center)
- Effective Public Health Practice Project (EBHPP): reviews of health interventions
- EPPI-Centre: Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre: conducts reviews, provides databases, and methods on reviews Education Reviews Health Promotion and Public Health Reviews
- Health evidence database of health promotion interventions, systematic reviews, and meta analysis to support evidence based decision making
- Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) reviews of health services and technology
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) from CRD
- JBI Library of Systematic Reviews: from the Joanna Briggs Institute, covers nursing, midwifery, and allied health systematic review
- National Clearance Guidelines: public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
- Network Business Sustainability Reviews: produces reviews in business literature
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements Evidence Based Review Program
- NHS EED (National Health Services Economic Evaluation Database) economic evaluations
- PubMedHealth: provides systematic reviews and meta analysis from 2000-current, sources include PubMed, Cochrane, DARE, and more
- Occupational Therapy Evidence-Based Research Group: provides some guidance for OT reviews from McMasters
- OT Seeker: database of systematic reviews and randomized control trials in occupational therapy
- Systematic Reviews in International Development: United Kingdom
- Turning Research Into Practice: evidence based medicine database with abstracts of review
Journals about methods of reviews
- Research Synthesis Methods: indexed by Medline
- Systematic Reviews: Biomed Central journal which covers all aspects of design, conduct, and reporting of systematic reviews
Systematic Reviews Leaders
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