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Systematic Reviews for Health Sciences and Medicine

An introduction to Systematic Reviews, with examples from Health Sciences and Medicine

Resources by Review Stage

The University has many resources available to guide you through all the processes involved in producing and publishing a systematic review.  Here are some selected tutorials, ebooks and videos that can assist.

Resources

 Searching - Tutorials

Systematic searching in health and medicine (UniMelb search instruction module)

Searching CINAHL (UniMelb Tutorial)

OVID Databases (UniMelb Tutorial)

Searching PsycInfo (Ovid) (UniMelb Tutorial)

Searching skills toolkit : finding the evidence

 

 

Reviews by Discipline
 

Health Sciences and Nursing

Nursing literature reviews

Literature reviews for education and nursing graduate students (Open Access)

Comprehensive systematic review for advanced practice nursing

Conducting systematic reviews in sport, exercise, and physical activity

Evidence-based practice in clinical social work

How to do a systematic literature review in nursing : a step-by-step guide

 

Population and Global Health

Comparative effectiveness research in health services

Evaluating public and community health programs

Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences : methods that matter

Systematic literature review protocol : guide to conducting a systematic review for mental disorders in the Global Burden of Disease study (Open Access)

Systematic reviews in Handbook of research methods in health social sciences

 

Psychology

Writing literature reviews : a guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences

Systematic literature review protocol : guide to conducting a systematic review for mental disorders in the Global Burden of Disease study (Open Access)

Research methods in clinical psychology

Writing your psychology research paper

Your psychology project : the essential guide

 

Social Sciences

A step-by-step guide to conducting an integrative review

Using mixed methods research synthesis for literature reviews

Systematic reviews in educational research

Systematic reviews in the social sciences

Research design : quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and community-based participatory research approaches