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
     
    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • SR Course Overview Page 2018 File
    • SR Class Mtgs and Assignements 2018 File

    • Prospectus:

    • Lecture1.2018 File

    • Session Slides:

    • Systematic Review Class intro 2018 File
    • Lecture 1 Systematic Review Epi 214 File

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

    • Watch URL
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    • Required Reading:

    • Bent - AJIC - Systematic Reviews File
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    • Grant et al-2009-Health Information Libraries Journal File
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    • Optional Reading:

      Systematic Reviews in Health Care, chapters 2,3,4 & 5

    • 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 - Mass Production of SR File
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    • Assignment: NO HOMEWORK to submit, Required reading as shown in Lecture 1 Prospectus.