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Workshops & Handouts
Handouts / Useful Tips to Get Started
- PICO Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Question / Search Plan WorksheetUse to record your search strategies.
Class Resources
General Workshops
- UBC Library WorkshopsSearch for upcoming workshops and events on conducting literature reviews, citation managers, special events, and more.
Academic Writing
- Centre for Writing and Scholarly CommunicationThe Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication is an educational support unit at UBC Vancouver dedicated to helping facilitate the writing of undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, and faculty.
Writing Annotated Bibliographies
Evaluating Sources
Evaluating Systematic Reviews
Not all systematic reviews are high quality. When reading a systematic review, look at the search strategy; is it missing important concepts? Do the reviewers address the quality of the articles they discuss?
The resources below may be helpful when evaluating systematic reviews.
- AMSTAR 2A critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or nonrandomised
studies of healthcare interventions, or both. - SIGN Critical AppraisalTo evaluate a systematic review's methodology, use these checklists from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.
- Methodology checklist: Systematic reviews and meta-analysesFor a more in-depth guide to evaluating systematic reviews and other studies, turn to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's Guidelines Manual.
- Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford)Use this appraisal worksheet to assess a review's results and methodology.
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Toronto)Clinicians looking to incorporate systematic reviews into their practice may benefit from this tool.
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) This link opens in a new windowThe collection of reviews of reviews provides critical assessments of systematic reviews. It was produced by the UK National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) between 1994 and March 2015.
- PRESS: Peer Review of Electronic Search StrategiesFrom CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health). See p. 40 of the PDF for checklists.