Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews Standards for systematic reviews of effectiveness of therapeutic and surgical interventions. Covers the entire systematic review process (searching, screening, selecting studies, synthesizing the findings (including meta-analysis), assessing the overall quality of the body of evidence, and reporting the results.
Institute of Medicine. (2011). Finding what works in health care: Standards for systematic reviews. The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13059.
Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews Provides the core methodology for undertaking systematic reviews on the effects of health interventions, with an emphasis on reviewing randomized trials. Provides authors with a detailed account of the steps from starting a review to summarizing and interpreting the review findings.
Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR) Standards for the conduct and reporting of new Cochrane Intervention Reviews, reporting of protocols and the planning, conduct and reporting of updates.
Campbell Systematic Reviews: Author Guidelines :Designed to inform author teams about the requirements for Campbell evidence syntheses, guidelines for producing them, and selected sources of further information about systematic reviews that is consistent with those requirements and guidelines.
AHRQ Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews Guidelines on conducting systematic reviews of effectiveness, comparative effectiveness, comparative harms, and medical tests.
JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis Designed to provide authors with a comprehensive guide to conducting JBI systematic reviews. It describes in detail the process of planning, undertaking and writing up a systematic review using JBI methods. The JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis should be used in conjunction with the support and tutorials offered at the JBI SUMARI Knowledge Base
Systematic Reviews: CRD's Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in Health Care Presents independent guidance produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), University of York. The methods and steps necessary to conduct a systematic review are presented in a core chapter (Chapter 1).