Tools, Guidelines, & Protocols

Tools

• Covidence - manage bibliographic data, PDFs, forms for risk of bias, and data extraction
  • Step-by-Step series
  • Knowledge Base
• EndNote - citation management software
  • EndNote training – YouTube channel
• What Review Is Right For You? Interactive Edition - guidance for conducting and reporting evidence synthesis

Search Strategies

• Yale MeSH Analyzer - helps identify keywords and controlled vocabulary in your search strategy
• searchRxiv
• ISSG Search filters
• Concepts de stratégies de recherche [French - Search Strategy Concepts]
• PRESS

Methodology Guidelines

• JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: Scoping Reviews (Chapter 10)
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
• Cochrane-Campbell Handbook for Qualitative Evidence Synthesis
• Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews

Reporting Guidelines

• PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)
  • PRISMA-ScR PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist
  • Other PRISMA Extensions
• MOOSE (Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology) 
• ENTREQ (Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research)

Quality Assessment & Risk of Bias Instruments

• GRADE: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation
• Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) Checklist
• JBI Critical Appraisal Tools
• Risk of bias tools in systematic reviews of health interventions: an analysis of PROSPERO-registered protocols (article)
• Critical appraisal of nonrandomized studies: a review of recommended and commonly used tools (article)

Protocol Templates

• PRISMA-P
• Campbell Collaboration
• SAGE
• F1000research
• BMC

Protocol Registries

• PROSPERO (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews)
• Open Science Framework: Registries

Articles

"Ensuring the Rigor in Systematic Reviews" series by Alexandria Brackett and Janene Batten, published in Heart and Lung:

1. The Overview
2. The Question and the Protocol
3. The Value of the Search
4. Screening the Results
5. Quality Appraisal, Data Extraction, Synthesis
6. Reporting Guidelines
7. Critical Appraisal of Systematic Review Quality

Books

• An Introduction to Systematic Reviews edited by David Gough, Sandy Oliver, James Thomas  
• Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis by Jacqueline Corcoran; Vijayan Pillai; Julia H. Littell
• The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis edited by Harris Cooper, Larry V. Hedges, Jeffrey C. Valentine
• Searching the Grey Literature: A handbook for Searching Reports, Working Papers, and other Unpublished Research by Sarah Bonato