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Systematic Reviews: References

References for Medical and Health Systematic Reviews

​Alberani, V., De Castro Pietrangeli, P. & Mazza, A. M. 1990. The use of grey literature in health sciences: a preliminary survey. Bulletin Of The Medical Library Association, 78(4): 358-363.

Boland, A., Cherry, M. G. & Dickson, R. (eds) 2017. Doing a systematic review : a student's guide, 2nd ed. Los Angeles; London : SAGE

Booth, A. & Brice, A. 2004. Evidence-based practice for information professionals : a handbook, London : Facet, 2004.

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination & Akers, J. 2009 Systematic reviews : CRD's guidance for undertaking reviews in health care: York : CRD, University of York, 2009., http://www.york.ac.uk/crd/SysRev/!SSL!/WebHelp/SysRev3.htm

Frankis, J., Price, L., Hamilton, P. & Jackson, I. The SPICE framework [Online]. Glasgow: Glasgow Caledonian University. Available: http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/pilot/searching/thespiceframework/ [Accessed 31st October 2016].

Gibbs, L., Armstrong, E. C., Raleigh, D. & Jones, J. 2003. Posing a Well-Built COPES Question and Classifying It Into One of Five Question Types [Online]. Brooks Cole. Available: http://www.evidence.brookscole.com/copse.html [Accessed 31 October 2016].

Gibbs, L. E. 2003. Evidence-based practice for the helping professions : a practical guide with integrated multimedia, Pacific Grove, Calif. : Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning, 2003.

Gilham, L., Hixon, B., Lamusse, F., Coley, A., Fabling, J., Brown, A., Ryan, S., Worrall, K., Evans, M., Jenkins, R., McGlashan, G. & Thames Valley and Wessex Healthcare Librarians. 2016. The Literature Search Process: Guidance for NHS Researchers [Online]. Thames Valley & Wessex NHS. Available: https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Lit_search_protocols_Feb2016.pdf [Accessed 31 October 2016].

Grant, M. J. & Booth, A. 2009. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 26(2): 91-108.

Higgins, J. & Green, S. 2011 Cochrane Handbook for Systematics Reviews of Interventions: The Cochrane Collaboration, http://handbook.cochrane.org/  

McGowan, J., Lefebvre, C., Sampson, M., Salzwedel, D. M., Cogo, E. & Foerster, V. 2016. PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Statement. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Munn Z, Peters MDJ, Stern C, Tufanaru C, McArthur A, Aromataris E. Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2018 Nov 19;18(1):143. doi: 10.1186/s12874-018-0611-x. PMID: 30453902; PMCID: PMC6245623.

Munn Z, Stern C, Aromataris E, Lockwood C, Jordan Z. What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2018 Jan 10;18(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s12874-017-0468-4. PMID: 29316881; PMCID: PMC5761190.

Pearson, A., Field, J. & Jordan, Z. 2006. Appendix 1: Systematic Review Protocol Example: Smoking  Cessation Interventions and Strategies for Hospitalised Patients. Evidence-Based Clinical Practice in Nursing and Health Care: Assimilating research, experience and expertise. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Peters, Micah D.J.1,2,3; Marnie, Casey1; Tricco, Andrea C.4,5,6; Pollock, Danielle7; Munn, Zachary7; Alexander, Lyndsay8,9; McInerney, Patricia10,11; Godfrey, Christina M.6,12; Khalil, Hanan13,14 Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews, JBI Evidence Synthesis: October 2020 - Volume 18 - Issue 10 - p 2119-2126 doi: 10.11124/JBIES-20-00167

Sutton, A. Booth, A . 2019. Meeting the review family: exploring review types and associated information retrieval requirements. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 36(3): 202-222.

Wildridge, V. & Bell, L. 2002. How CLIP became ECLIPSE: a mnemonic to assist in searching for health policy/management information. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 19(2): 113. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1471-1842.2002.00378.x/full

Reference for non-health Systematic Reviews

Boland, A., Cherry, M. G. & Dickson, R. (eds) 2017. Doing a systematic review : a student's guide, 2nd ed. Los Angeles; London : SAGE

Booth, A. & Brice, A. 2004. Evidence-based practice for information professionals : a handbook, London : Facet, 2004.

Chandler J, Cumpston M, Thomas J, Higgins JPT, Deeks JJ, Clarke MJ. Chapter I: Introduction. In: Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.0 (updated August 2019). Cochrane, 2019. Available from www.training.cochrane.org/handbook

Collaboration for Environmental Evidence. 2013. Guidelines for Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Management. Version 4.2. Environmental Evidence: 

Counsell C. 1997 Formulating Questions and Locating Primary Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews. Ann Intern Med. Vol.127 pp.380–387. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-5-199709010-00008

De Brún C. and Pearce-Smith, N 2014. Citation pearl searching in Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the evidence Chichester: Wiley chapter 11.

Denyer, D. and Tranfield, D. 2009. 'Producing a Systematic Review'. In The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Research Methods. D.A. Buchanan and A. Bryman (eds).  London: SAGE p. 670-689.

Fisch, D. & Block, J 2018 Six tips for your (systematic) literature review in business and management research Management Review Quarterly 68: 103-106 DOI: 10.1007/s11301-018-0142-x

Gibbs, L., Armstrong, E. C., Raleigh, D. & Jones, J. 2003. Posing a Well-Built COPES Question and Classifying It Into One of Five Question Types [Online]. Brooks Cole. Available: http://www.evidence.brookscole.com/copse.html [Accessed 31 October 2016]

Grant, M. J. & Booth, A. 2009. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 26(2): 91-108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x

Hadfield, R. 2019 Pearl growing as a strategy in systematic literature searches [blogpost accessed 29/10/2019]

Hemingway, P. & Brereton, N. 2009 What is a Systematic Review?  2nd ed.Hayward Medical Communications NPR09/1111 http://www.bandolier.org.uk/painres/download/whatis/Syst-review.pdf [accessed 01 November 2017]

Higgins, J. & Green, S. 2011 Cochrane Handbook for Systematics Reviews of Interventions: The Cochrane Collaboration, http://handbook.cochrane.org/  [Now superceded – see Chandler et al 2019]

King, R. Hooper, B. & Wood W. 2016 Using bibliographic software to appraise and code data in educational systematic review research  Medical Teacher 33(9): 719-723 DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2011.558138

Kofod-Petersen, A. 2014 How to do a Structured Review in computer science v 0.2 

Lawrence, D.W. 2008 What is lost when searching only one literature database for articles relevant to injury prevention and safety promotion? Injury Prevention, 14(6): 401-404 DOI: 10.1136/ip.2008.019430

McGowan J, Sampson M, Salzwedel D, Cogo E, Foerster V, Lefebvre C. 2016 PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Explanation and Elaboration (PRESS E&E) Ottawa: CADTH

McGowan, J., Lefebvre, C., Sampson, M., Salzwedel, D. M., Cogo, E. & Foerster, V. 2016. PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Statement. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.01.021

Moher, D., Shameer, L., Clarke, M., Ghersi, D., Liberati, A., Petticrew, M., Shekell, P., Stewart, L.A. and PRISM-P Group 2015 Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement Systematic Reviews 4(1) DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-4-1

Pawson, R. (2006). 'Evidence-Based Policy: A Realist Perspective'. London: SAGE publications

Prisma. 2009. PRISMA flow diagram [Online]. 

Siddaway, A [no date] What is a systematic literature review and how do I do one? [Accessed 23/10/19]

Tranfield, D., Denyer, D, & Smart, P. 2003 Towards a methodology for developing evidence-informed management knowledge by means of systematic review British Journal of Management (14(3) p 207 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.00375

Wildridge, V. & Bell, L. 2002. How CLIP became ECLIPSE: a mnemonic to assist in searching for health policy/management information. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 19(2): 113. DOI:10.1046/j.1471-1842.2002.00378.x

Wohlin, C (2014) Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2014. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2014). DOI: 10.1145/2601248.2601268