Systematic Reviews: Planning, Writing, and Supporting

See Section 6.5

A PRISMA Flow Diagram, described in the PRISMA Statement, is a graphical representation of the flow of citations reviewed in the course of a Systematic Review

From the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries

The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (short GRADE) working group began in the year 2000 as an informal collaboration of people with an interest in addressing the shortcomings of grading systems in health care. The working group has developed a common, sensible and transparent approach to grading quality (or certainty) of evidence and strength of recommendations.

The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) is an ongoing collaboration between the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Ottawa, Canada. It was developed to assess the quality of nonrandomised studies with its design, content and ease of use directed to the task of incorporating the quality assessments in the interpretation of meta-analytic results.

Systematic review management system for screening results and data extraction; requires a subscription.

Systematic review software to manage, track, and streamline the screening, data extraction, and reporting processes. Requires a paid subscription.

Authors create systematic reviews, collaborate on them, maintain them over time and get suggestions for article inclusion.