Systematic Reviews

an online introduction to Evidence Based Medicine, clinical trials, and Cochrane evidence.

the official guide that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions

the Joanna Briggs Institutes’ premier software for the systematic review of the literature (registration required).

an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care, welfare, and public health.

a detailed overview of the requirements and stages of the systematic review process.

provides a framework for assessing the risk of bias in a single result from any type of randomized trial.

is a screening and data extraction tool (registration required)

an “umbrella” organisation that brings together researchers, medical journal editors, peer reviewers, developers of reporting guidelines, research funding bodies and other collaborators with a mutual interest in improving the quality of research publications and of research itself.

assists in assessing the trustworthiness, relevance, and results of published papers.

facilitates the preparation of protocols and full reviews, including text, characteristics of studies, comparison tables, and study data

a community-driven, searchable, web-based catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process

a suite of tools to speed up steps in the Systematic Review process. Free registration

is data mining system that can help you identify common words and phrases in search results to help build your search strategy.

Reference management software is not required to conduct a Systematic Review but is highly recommended. EndNote is a software that assists in organising references, such as books, journal articles and web pages.