Systematic Reviews: Before You Begin

Guidelines for producing a Campbell Systematic Review. The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions.

The official document that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews. The current version of the Handbook is 6.3, 2022

The AHRQ guide is organized around key issues at each step involved in researching and writing a Comparative Effectiveness review (CER).

Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG; PRISMA Group. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Med. 2009 Jul 21;6(7). doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000097.

Developed and maintained by the Community Preventive Services Taskforce, the Community Guide follows a rigorous systematic review process to identify effective programs & policies.

Last updated in 2016. DARE contains the full-text of structured critical assessments of previously published systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. It is produced by the staff of the National Health Service Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England. DARE records cover such topics as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment.

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