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Systematic Reviews: A Comprehensive Overview Video Series
Types of Literature Reviews
Learning objectives:
- Describe common literature review types
- Describe methodologies used for different review types
Abiramalatha T, Ramaswamy VV, Bandyopadhyay T, Somanath SH, Shaik NB, Pullattayil AK, Weiner GM. Interventions to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preterm Neonates: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. JAMA Pediatr. 2022 May 1;176(5):502-516. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.6619. PMID: 35226067.
Affengruber L, Wagner G, Dobrescu A, Toromanova A, Chapman A, Persad E, Klerings I, Gartlehner G. Values and Preferences of Patients With Depressive Disorders Regarding Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments: A Rapid Review. Ann Intern Med. 2023 Feb;176(2):217-223. doi: 10.7326/M22-1900. Epub 2023 Jan 24. PMID: 36689749.
Agarwal S, Charlesworth M, Elrakhawy M. How to write a narrative review. Anaesthesia. 2023 Sep;78(9):1162-1166. doi: 10.1111/anae.16016. Epub 2023 Apr 3. PMID: 37010983.
Aromataris E, Fernandez R, Godfrey C, Holly C, Khalil H, Tungpunkom P. Chapter 10: Umbrella Reviews. In: Aromataris E, Munn Z, editors. JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis [Internet]. Joanna Briggs Institute; 2020 [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://synthesismanual.jbi.global.
Burns PB, Rohrich RJ, Chung KC. The levels of evidence and their role in evidence-based medicine. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Jul;128(1):305-310. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318219c171. PMID: 21701348; PMCID: PMC3124652.
Cook DJ, Mulrow CD, Haynes RB. Systematic reviews: synthesis of best evidence for clinical decisions. Ann Intern Med. 1997 Mar 1;126(5):376-80. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-5-199703010-00006. PMID: 9054282.
Fox ZE, Williams AM, Blasingame MN, Koonce TY, Kusnoor SV, Su J, Lee P, Epelbaum MI, Naylor HM, DesAutels SJ, Frakes ET, Giuse NB. Why equating all evidence searches to systematic reviews defies their role in information seeking. J Med Libr Assoc. 2019 Oct;107(4):613-617. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2019.707. Epub 2019 Oct 1. PMID: 31607825; PMCID: PMC6774532.
Garritty C, Gartlehner G, Nussbaumer-Streit B, King VJ, Hamel C, Kamel C, Affengruber L, Stevens A. Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group offers evidence-informed guidance to conduct rapid reviews. J Clin Epidemiol. 2021 Feb;130:13-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.10.007. Epub 2020 Oct 15. PMID: 33068715; PMCID: PMC7557165.
Gillespie SM, Jones A, Garofalo C. Psychopathy and dangerousness: An umbrella review and meta-analysis. Clin Psychol Rev. 2023 Mar;100:102240. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102240. Epub 2022 Dec 13. PMID: 36608488.
Goswami A, Poole L, Thorlu-Bangura Z, Khan N, Hanif W, Khunti K, Gill P, Sajid M, Blandford A, Stevenson F, Banerjee A, Ramasawmy M. The Use of Digital Health Interventions for Cardiometabolic Diseases Among South Asian and Black Minority Ethnic Groups: Realist Review. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Jan 6;25:e40630. doi: 10.2196/40630. PMID: 36607732; PMCID: PMC9862310.
Grant MJ, Booth A. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Info Libr J. 2009 Jun;26(2):91-108. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x. PMID: 19490148.
Greenhalgh T, Thorne S, Malterud K. Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews? Eur J Clin Invest. 2018 Jun;48(6):e12931. doi: 10.1111/eci.12931. Epub 2018 Apr 16. PMID: 29578574; PMCID: PMC6001568.
Paré G, Kitsiou S. Chapter 9: Methods for Literature Reviews. In: Lau F, Kuziemsky C, editors. Handbook of eHealth Evaluation: An Evidence-based Approach [Internet]. Victoria (BC): University of Victoria; 2017 Feb 27 [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK481583/.
Patnode CD, Eder ML, Walsh ES, Viswanathan M, Lin JS. The Use of Rapid Review Methods for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Am J Prev Med. 2018 Jan;54(1S1):S19-S25. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2017.07.024. PMID: 29254522.
Peters MDJ, Godfrey C, McInerney P, Munn Z, Tricco AC, Khalil, H. Chapter 11: Scoping Reviews (2020 version). In: Aromataris E, Munn Z, editors. JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis [Internet]. Joanna Briggs Institute; 2020 [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://synthesismanual.jbi.global.
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist [Internet]. [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: http://www.prisma-statement.org/documents/PRISMA-ScR-Fillable-Checklist_11Sept2019.pdf.
PROSPERO (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) [Internet]. (UK): University of York, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/.
Schünemann HJ, Moja L. Reviews: Rapid! Rapid! Rapid! …and systematic. Syst Rev. 2015 Jan 14;4(1):4. doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-4-4. PMID: 25589399; PMCID: PMC4320433.
Systematic Review [Publication Type] as a Medical Subject Heading [Internet]. (US): National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2028176.
Tricco AC, Lillie E, Zarin W, O'Brien KK, Colquhoun H, Levac D, Moher D, Peters MDJ, Horsley T, Weeks L, Hempel S, Akl EA, Chang C, McGowan J, Stewart L, Hartling L, Aldcroft A, Wilson MG, Garritty C, Lewin S, Godfrey CM, Macdonald MT, Langlois EV, Soares-Weiser K, Moriarty J, Clifford T, Tunçalp Ö, Straus SE. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Oct 2;169(7):467-473. doi: 10.7326/M18-0850. Epub 2018 Sep 4. PMID: 30178033.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Evidence Syntheses, formerly Systematic Evidence Reviews [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 1998-. [cited 2023 Oct 18]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK43437/.
Walther LE, Löhler J, Agrawal Y, Motschall E, Schubach F, Meerpohl JJ, Schmucker C. Evaluating the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Head-Impulse Test: A Scoping Review. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Jun 1;145(6):550-560. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2019.0243. PMID: 31021380.
Wong G, Greenhalgh T, Westhorp G, Buckingham J, Pawson R. RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses. BMC Med. 2013 Jan 29;11:21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-21. PMID: 23360677; PMCID: PMC3558331.
This video series should be cited as:
Kusnoor SV, Williams AM, Koonce TY, Krump P, Harding L, Zhao J, Giuse NB. Systematic Reviews: A Comprehensive Overview Video Series. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Center for Knowledge Management, 2023. Available from: https://spi-hub.app.vumc.org/sysrev/home.