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: Steve Bent
     
    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • SR Course Overview Page 2019 File
    • SR Class Mtgs and Assignements 2019 - revised 3-5-19 File

    • Prospectus:

    • Lecture1.2019 File

    • Session Slides:

    • Systematic Review Class intro 2019 File
    • SR lecture 1 April 9 2019 File

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

    • Watch URL

    • 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
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

    • Grant MJ, Booth A. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Info Libr J. 2009. Jun;26(2):91-108. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Moher D, Liberati A , Tetzlaff J, Altman DG. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • 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
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Ioannidis - Mass Production of SR File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Assignment: NO HOMEWORK to submit, Required reading as shown in Lecture 1 Prospectus.