Links to relevant articles and books about Systematic Reviews
Bayliss, H.R., Lortie, C.J. and Stewart, G.B. (2015) 'How "good" is half a fish? Communicating outcomes of quantitative syntheses to decision makers', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13(10): pp. 533-534.
Booth, A. (2001) 'Cochrane or cock-eyed? How should we conduct systematic reviews of qualitative research?' in Qualitative Evidence-based conference: Taking a critical stance, Coventry University.
Cooper, H. Hedges, L.V., & Valentine, J.C. Handbook of research synthesis and meta-analysis (2009) 2nd ed. New York: Russell Sage Foundation
Eden, J., Levit, L., Berg, A., and Morton, S. (eds) (2011) Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews. Washington (DC): National Academies Press.
Hemingway, P. (2009) What is a systematic review? Available from: https://familymedicine.med.wayne.edu/mph/project/what_is_a_systematic_review.pdf [Accessed: 24/06/2024].
Higgins, J.P.T., Lasserson, T., Chandler, J., Tovey, D., Thomas, J., Flemyng, E., and Churchill, R. (2022) Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews. London: Cochrane Community.
Khan, K. (2003) ‘Five steps to conducting a systematic review', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 96, pp. 118-121.
Koricheva, J., Gurevitch, J. & Mengersen, K. (eds.) (2013) Handbook of Meta-Analysis in Ecology and Evolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Meerpohl, J.J. et al. (2012) 'Scientific value of systematic reviews: survey of editors of core clinical journals', PLoS ONE, 7(5): p. e35732. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341385/pdf/pone.0035732.pdf [Accessed: 09/09/2019].
Petticrew, M & Roberts, H. (2006) Systematic reviews in the social sciences: a practical guide. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub.
Uman, L.S. (2011) 'Systematic reviews and meta-analyses', Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 20(1), pp. 57-59. Available from: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21286370/ [Accessed: 11/12/2024].
Whaley, P., Aiassa, E., Beausoleil, C., Beronius, A., Bilotta, G., Boobis, A., de Vries, R., Hanberg, A. Hoffmann, S., Hunt, N., Kwiatkowski, C.F., Lam, J., Lipworth, S., Martin, O., Randall, N., Rhomberg, L., Rooney, A.A., Schunemann, H.J., Wikoff, G., Wolffe, T., and Halsall, C. (2020) Recommendations for the conduct of systematic reviews in toxicology and environmental health research (COSTER), Environment International, 143, p. 105926.
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