Systematic Reviews
Systematic reviews provide a rigorous and replicable method of identifying, evaluating, and summarizing scientific evidence to address healthcare-related issues such as disease treatment, prevention, diagnosis, and risk factor assessment. The steps involved in conducting a systematic review include:
- development of a focused study question
- identification of all potentially relevant primary research using a structured search strategy
- screening of abstracts for relevance to the study question
- quality assessment of the relevant literature
- extraction of data from articles of sufficient quality and
- synthesis of data from those studies using qualitative or quantitative approaches.

