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Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR) provides standards for the conduct of new Cochrane Intervention Reviews, and the planning and conduct of updates

This manual guides authors who wish to conduct systematic and scoping reviews following JBI methodologies. Each chapter is devoted to the synthesis of different types of evidence to address different types of clinical and policy-related questions.

Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services.

The PRISMA 2020 statement replaces the 2009 statement and includes new reporting guidance that reflects advances in methods to identify, select, appraise, and synthesise studies.

Covidence is an online systematic review management tool that allows for independent title/abstract screening, full text screening, data extraction and risk of bias assessment. Although it is designed for use with systematic reviews, its utility translates fairly well to some other evidence synthesis methods, like scoping reviews.

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Excel is the most basic tool for the management of article screening. Lists of references can be exported from citation managers into Excel format for screening. Because it is easy to accidentally overwrite cells in Excel, it is recommended that you keep a clean copy of your exported articles and work only on a copy.

facilitates the entire review process, from protocol development, team management, study selection, critical appraisal, data extraction, data synthesis and writing systematic review report

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Abstrackr is a free online tool to help you upload and organize the results of a literature search for a systematic review. It helps you and your team screen, organize, and manipulate all of your abstracts in one place.

Free software application for systematic review literature screening

A free content management system for health assessments.HAWC is a modular, content management system designed to store, display, and synthesize multiple data sources for the purpose of supporting the development of human health and environmental assessments of pollutants.

Rayyan is a free online tool that can be used for independent screening and coding of studies in an evidence synthesis. Rayyan will pre-populate inclusion and exclusion criteria, but you can customize these criteria. It also uses tagging and filtering to code and organize references. Title and abstract screening can be conducted in one project, while full text screening can be conducted in a second project.

SRDR+ is a free, powerful, easy to use tool for data extraction, management, and archival during systematic reviews.

An online platform to aid you in your systematic reviews and meta-analyses of in vivo studies