Undertaking a systematic review

Abstract

CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this chapter you will be able to: • • • appreciate the importance of a systematic review as a source of evidence describe the importance of developing a review protocol understand how to formulate a focused clinical question • explain the development of a comprehensive literature search strategy on a specific clinical question • appreciate the importance of assessing the quality of included studies • understand the processes of conducting a meta-analysis, metasynthesis and narrative synthesis.