How to conduct a systematic review

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Here are some key take-aways from the webinar:

A systematic review has a clearly formulated research question with pre-defined selection criteria. It is characterised by systematic and clear methods for searching, selecting and critically assessing relevant research.  

A systematic review has four cornerstones, it should be:

• Comprehensive. The overall goal of a search strategy for a systematic literature review is to be comprehensive and exhaustive.
• Transparent. Accurate documentation is very important, documenting the choices made throughout the process.
• Reproducible. The documentation is also important to be able to reproduce the review.
• Designed to minimise bias. By searching in several databases, including grey literature to avoid publication bias and having at least two reviewers in the screening.

It takes a lot of resources, not least time, to perform a full systematic review. But keep in mind, not everything needs to be a full systematic review. 

Look at what has already been published, reach out to your network for usful insight, and to librarians/informations specialists for the literature search, and method support.

This and much more can be found on the SLU University Library's Support for systematic Reviews page (https://www.slu.se/en/subweb/library/use-the-library/search-and-find/support-for-systematic-reviews/)

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