Systematic review support NURS41000&70120

Support for your systematic review

Introduction to the support

What is a systematic review?

Refining your topic and planning your review

Introduction

Turning your topic into a ‘search strategy’

The Covid-19 subject heading in Ovid Medline
Figure 1: Subject heading for ‘Covid-19’ in Ovid Medline.
Combining with OR in Ovid Medline
Figure 2: Combining with OR in Ovid Medline
Related search terms combined with OR
Figure 3: Related search terms combined with OR
Combining with AND in Ovid Medline
Figure 4: Combining with AND in Ovid Medline
Separate concepts combined with AND
Figure 5: Separate concepts combined with AND

Defining your inclusion and exclusion criteria

Choosing your databases

How to use databases platforms

Replicating your search across database platforms

Selecting search history in CINAHL on the EBSCO platform
Figure 1: Selecting search history in CINAHL on the EBSCO platform
Search history view in CINAHL
Figure 2: Search history view in CINAHL

Saving your searches

Reporting on your search and screening results with the PRISMA Flow Diagram

Records identified from:

Ovid Medline: 356
Embase: 762
PsycINFO: 261
CINAHL: 83
Web of Science: 793
Total with duplicates: 2255

Records removed before screening:

Duplicate records: 164
Total (with duplicates removed: 2091

Records screened: 2091
Records sought for retrieval: 28
Records excluded: 2063

Review papers: 291
Sample size: 578
Population: 847
Other: 347

Records not retrieved: 2
Records included in review: 26

Reference management tools for systematic reviews

Group structure for database imports in EndNote 20
Figure 1: group structure for database imports in EndNote 20
Removing duplicates in EndNote 20
Figure 2: removing duplicates in EndNote 20
Group structure for screening in EndNote 20
Figure 3: group structure for screening in EndNote 20

Critical appraisal

Hierarchy of evidence
Figure 1: hierarchy of evidence

Note-making

Referencing refresher

Help and support from the Library

‘Ask a University of Manchester Librarian for help’ on the Ovid platform
Figure 1: ‘Ask a University of Manchester Librarian for help’ on the Ovid platform
‘Ask a University of Manchester Librarian for help’ on the EBSCO platform
Figure 2: ‘Ask a University of Manchester Librarian for help’ on the EBSCO platform

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