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A complete, step-by-step guide to doing a systematic literature review the right way. If you're starting a systematic review or meta analysis and don't know where to begin, this walks you through the entire process, from framing your research question to reporting against PRISMA guidelines.
You'll learn how to register your review on PROSPERO, turn a vague idea into a focused PICO question, build a defensible Boolean search across databases like PubMed and Scopus, screen with two reviewers, appraise study quality and risk of bias, and report your results using the PRISMA checklist and flow diagram. Whether you're in health sciences, social science, or any research field, these are the foundations every literature review needs.
🔗RESOURCES & TOOLS
Register your review
PROSPERO: crd.york.ac.uk/prospero
OSF (non-health reviews): osf.io
Screen with two reviewers
Rayyan: rayyan.ai
Covidence: covidence.org
Appraise quality & risk of bias
RoB 2 / ROBINS-I: riskofbias.info
CASP checklists: casp-uk.net
robvis visualiser: mcguinlu.shinyapps.io/robvis
Report against PRISMA 2020
PRISMA statement & checklist: prisma-statement.org
PRISMA 2020 flow diagram templates: prisma-statement.org/prisma-2020-flow-diagram
PRISMA flow diagram generator:
estech.shinyapps.io/prisma_flowdiagram
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▼ ▽ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:10 The 3 P's: PICO, PROSPERO & PRISMA
01:03 Process Overview
01:56 Frame & register your review (PROSPERO / OSF)
04:04 Creating Pico Question
06:23 Boolean search strategy & databases
10:14 Screening with two reviewers (Cohen's Kappa)
12:53 Quality appraisal, risk of bias & PRISMA reporting
14:15 Write the Literature Review
17:44 Outro
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A complete, step-by-step guide to doing a systematic literature review the right way. If you're starting a systematic review or meta analysis and don't know where to begin, this walks you through the entire process, from framing your research question to reporting against PRISMA guidelines.
You'll learn how to register your review on PROSPERO, turn a vague idea into a focused PICO question, build a defensible Boolean search across databases like PubMed and Scopus, screen with two reviewers, appraise study quality and risk of bias, and report your results using the PRISMA checklist and flow diagram. Whether you're in health sciences, social science, or any research field, these are the foundations every literature review needs.
🔗RESOURCES & TOOLS
Register your review
PROSPERO: crd.york.ac.uk/prospero
OSF (non-health reviews): osf.io
Screen with two reviewers
Rayyan: rayyan.ai
Covidence: covidence.org
Appraise quality & risk of bias
RoB 2 / ROBINS-I: riskofbias.info
CASP checklists: casp-uk.net
robvis visualiser: mcguinlu.shinyapps.io/robvis
Report against PRISMA 2020
PRISMA statement & checklist: prisma-statement.org
PRISMA 2020 flow diagram templates: prisma-statement.org/prisma-2020-flow-diagram
PRISMA flow diagram generator:
estech.shinyapps.io/prisma_flowdiagram
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▼ ▽ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:10 The 3 P's: PICO, PROSPERO & PRISMA
01:03 Process Overview
01:56 Frame & register your review (PROSPERO / OSF)
04:04 Creating Pico Question
06:23 Boolean search strategy & databases
10:14 Screening with two reviewers (Cohen's Kappa)
12:53 Quality appraisal, risk of bias & PRISMA reporting
14:15 Write the Literature Review
17:44 Outro
