LibGuides: Systematic Reviews: Tools & Resources

Books on Systematic Reviews @ APSU Library

How to Do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing by Josette Bettany-Saltikov
ISBN: 9780335242276
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
Comprehensive Systematic Review for Advanced Practice Nursing, Second Edition by Cheryl Holly (Editor); Susan Salmond (Editor); Maria Saimbert (Editor)
ISBN: 9780826131850
Publication Date: 2016-07-28
Finding What Works in Health Care by Jill Eden (Editor); Laura Levit (Editor); Alfred Berg (Editor); Sally Morton (Editor); Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research; Institute of Medicine; Board on Health Care Services Staff
ISBN: 9780309164252
Publication Date: 2011-07-20
Essentials of Nursing Research by Denise F. Polit; Cheryl Tatano Beck
ISBN: 9781451176797
Publication Date: 2013-02-01

Tools for setting up a systematic review

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - Look at Part One, Chapter Two for setting up protocols for systematic reviews.

Standards for Systematic Reviews - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

JBI Reviewer's Manual - Joanna Briggs Institute

Tools for evaluating studies to use in a review

Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) - Checklists for different study types

Center for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) - Critical appraisal tools

Critical Appraisal Tools from the Joanna Briggs Institute

Tools for extracting data from studies

Cochrane data collection forms for intervention reviews

Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR) from the Agency of Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ) - Accessing the extraction forms and tool require the user to sign up as a project contributor.

Distiller SR (Has a student pricing program) $

EPPI Reviewer $

$ = These tools are not free.

Special Tools and Resources

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Bio-medical, Physical, and Social Sciences (including Economics)
*content spans the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences (including economics)

*Recent editions of Annual Reviews (2009-2019) are provided as well as editions from the Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection (EBVC).

*Content dates range from 1932-2019
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) This link opens in a new window
Full-text graduate-level theses and dissertations
*OATD is an index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

*The full text of all papers lives on the original hosting site, usually the repository of the university that granted the degree.