Section outline

  • Lecture 1: Designing a Systematic Review
    Indications and overview of the steps of systematic reviews, how to formulate research questions and developing a protocol, Data sources, search strategy and publication bias; inclusion and exclusion criteria, quality assessment, data abstraction forms, selection of studies, homogeneity.

    Faculty: Ashok Krishnaswami 

    • SR Class Mtgs and Assignements 2021 File
    • SR Course Overview Page 2021 File

    • Prospectus:

    • Lecture1.2021 File

    • Session Slides:

    • Final Lecture 1 Systematic Review Epi 214 Krishnaswami April 2020 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lecture 1 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only
    • Prerecorded Lecture 1 2021 Media Resource
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    • Required Reading:

    • Bent S, Shojania, K, Saint, S. The use of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in infection control and hospital epidemiology. Am J Infect Control. 2004 June:32(4):246-254. File
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    • Optional Reading:

    • Moher D, Liberati A , Tetzlaff J, Altman DG. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. File
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    • Cooke A, Smith D, Booth A. Beyond PICO: the SPIDER tool for qualitative evidence synthesis. Qual Health Res. 2012 Oct;22(10):1435-43 File
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    • Ioannidis J. The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 94, No. 3, 2016 (pp. 485-514) File
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    • Grant MJ and Booth A. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information and Libraries Journal , 26 , pp.91–108 File
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    • Assignment: NO HOMEWORK to submit, Required reading as shown in Lecture 1 Prospectus.