Comprehensive Systematic Review for Advanced Practice Nursing, Second Edition by The Systematic Review Toolbox is a catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process.
it can help researchers and reviewers to find:
"A systematic review attempts to identify, appraise and synthesize all the empirical evidence that meets pre-specified eligibility criteria to answer a specific research question. Researchers conducting systematic reviews use explicit, systematic methods that are selected with a view aimed at minimizing bias, to produce more reliable findings to inform decision making".
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/about/about-cochrane-reviews
Conducting a systematic review is a multi-step and planned process. This is part of the 'systematic' nature of this type of publication. Each step in the process may involve careful planning and documentation and required diverse skills and knowledge.
Designed by Jessica Kaufman, Cochrane Consumers & Communication Review Group, Centre for Health Communication & Participation, La Trobe University, 2011.
A Systematic Review is not the same as a literature review (even though it may be carried out systematically). Although both aim to provide an accurate summary of the available literature on a topic, a Systematic Review is expected to be more rigorous, transparent and replicable.
