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Systematic Review Worksheet to Prepare for
Meeting with a Librarian
Please complete document before meeting with a librarian for the first time. It will help the meeting
be more productive. See the Cochrane Handbook (http://www.cochrane-handbook.org) for
more information about systematic reviews in general.
Contact information
Name
Type of Project: □ Paper
□ Thesis/Dissertation
□ Grant
□ Other:
[email protected]
Phone
Campus office
Before you begin: Determine if a systematic review has been done on your topic
Please provide information on previous searching for systematic reviews on your topic. To find
systematic reviews, please refer to the UTSPH Library site:
https://sph.uth.edu/content/uploads/2010/07/finding_prior_SRs1.pdf
Provide citations of the 3 most relevant reviews. Bring any that you have printed out.
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Research Aims
Specific aims state what you want to do in the order in which you want to do it. According to the
Cochrane Handbook: “A statement of the review’s objectives should begin with a precise statement
of the primary objective, ideally in a single sentence. Where possible the style should be of the form
‘To assess the effects of [intervention or comparison] for [health problem] in [types of people, disease or problem and setting if specified]’. This might be followed by one or more secondary objectives, for example relating to different participant groups, different comparisons of interventions or
different outcome measures. Can you put your question into a PICOS format?
Population:
Intervention:
Comparison:
Outcome(s):
Study types:
Help us develop an appropriate vocabulary
Divide your topic into its components and provide synonyms for each of these topics. For example,
research question on the best drug therapy for Lou Gehrig’s disease would need to include all of the
other terms for the disease e.g.. ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and so on, as well as all of the
various drugs to be studied.
Topic
Synonyms
Do you have articles describing original research that are representative of those
you might include in your SR? Provide citations of the 3 most relevant reviews.
Bring any that you have printed out.
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