Systematic Review & Scoping Review Support in the Health Sciences

This level of support is available to all undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, and faculty members at Sargent College. Any of these services are a regular part of my job and are available anytime:

• provide you with tools and resources for learning about the process of researching and writing systematic reviews/scoping reviews/meta-analyses.
• assistance finding existing systematic reviews on your topic.
• selecting appropriate journal databases for your research question.
• help with identifying controlled vocabulary and keywords to optimize your search.
• instruction on performing advanced searches in databases.
• recommending sources of grey literature to supplement your research.
• training on the use of citation management software & Covidence to help you manage your research.
• help setting up research alerts in online databases.

This service is available to all Sargent faculty members. I offer to serve as a contributing author to your evidence-synthesis. As a contributing author, I will provide all the services described at the consultant and training level, plus:

• providing you with keywords and a search syntax for each database.
• running searches in our databases.
• saving search results in Covidence (or citation management software) and removing duplicate entries from the search.
• assistance retrieving the full-text of articles.
• documenting the search strategy and results according to PRISMA Guidelines.
• authoring a section of the methodology section of your review related to the search strategy.
• outlining the search strategy in the appendices of your publications.

Please note that there may be a waiting period for this service depending on the time of the semester.