Seven Starting Steps
To get started on an evidence synthesis project:
- Build your team
- Identify your timeline
- Conduct exploratory searches for existing and planned reviews on the topic and seminal/seed articles
- Select an appropriate review type
- Select appropriate tools and templates
- Locate and read relevant methods and reporting guidelines
- Identify a potential publication venue and their requirements for evidence synthesis projects
These steps help you plan for success and identify limitations and confounding factors for your project.
Evidence Synthesis Review Work Plan
- Evidence Synthesis Review: Work PlanUse this work plan to guide and document your project planning from conception through initial search design. This is not a replacement for a formal protocol.
This work plan was created by Elizabeth Yates, Kymberly Ash and Jessi Robinson under the terms of a CC-BY-SA-NC license. The search table content is based on a mining seed papers and search development template created by Alix Hayden and Zahra Premji, also licensed CC-BY-SA-NC-4.0. This work plan was altered by Anna Ferri and shared under a CC-BY-SA-NC license.
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