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ArticleJournal of perioperative practice2021

Systematic reviews: Structure, form and content.

Veronica Phillips, Eleanor Barker

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Article in Journal of perioperative practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Live Hospice Discharge of Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities: A Systematic Review.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025
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  17. Systematic reviews: Not always a pain.Interventional pain medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Veronica PhillipsUniversity of Cambridge Medical Library, Cambridge, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4383-9434
Eleanor BarkerUniversity of Cambridge Medical Library, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article aims to provide an overview of the structure, form and content of systematic reviews. It focuses in particular on the literature searching component, and covers systematic database searching techniques, searching for grey literature and the importance of librarian involvement in the search. It also covers systematic review reporting standards such as PRISMA-P and PRISMA, critical appraisal and tools and resources to support the review and ensure it is conducted efficiently and effectively. Finally, it summarizes the requirements when screening search results for inclusion in the review, and the statistical synthesis of included studies' findings.

Indexed as

Systematic Reviews as TopicMeta-Analysis as TopicLibrariesPRISMAPRISMA-PResearch supportSystematic reviews

Identifiers

PMID34228554
PMCPMC8406371

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