Systematic Review & Scoping Review Support in the Health Sciences

Several books and websites offer comprehensive guidance on the process of doing systematic reviews. Here are a few:

• Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews
• JBI Manual of Evidence-Synthesis
• Finding What Works in Healthcare: Standards for Systematic Reviews
• PRISMA:Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews
• Systematic Reviews: CRD’s Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in HealthCare
• Systematic Reviews to Support Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Appraise, Conduct, and Publish Reviews

• Lockwood, C., Dos Santos, K. B., & Pap, R. (2019). Practical Guidance for Knowledge Synthesis: Scoping Review Methods. Asian nursing research, 13(5), 287–294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anr.2019.11.002
• McKinstry, C., Brown, T., & Gustafsson, L. (2014). Scoping reviews in occupational therapy: the what, why, and how to. Australian occupational therapy journal, 61(2), 58–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1630.12080
• Peters, M. D., Godfrey, C. M., Khalil, H., McInerney, P., Parker, D., & Soares, C. B. (2015). Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews. International journal of evidence-based healthcare, 13(3), 141–146. https://doi.org/10.1097/XEB.0000000000000050

• PRISMA for Scoping Reviews
• JBI Manual for Evidence-Synthesis