Project Management and Record Keeping
The Cochrane Handbook
See Section 6.5
Concept Table – Blank (WORD)
Concept Table - Sample (WORD)
EndNote/RefWorks Step by Step (WORD)
Project Checklist (WORD)
Record Keeping (WORD)
Intake Form (WORD)
Tools for the Team
Assessing Quality of Research
Critical Appraisal Worksheets (from Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries)
Assessment of multiple systematic reviews (AMSTAR) PMID:17302989 and PMID: 19230606
GRADE guidelines (Journal of Clinical Epidemiology series)
Jadad scale for quality RCTs - PMID: 8721797
Quality assessment instrument for diagnostic studies (QUADAS-2) PMID: 22007046
Extracting the Data
DistillerSR | Web-based systematic review software (not free)
RevMan 5 (Cochrane Collaboration - free of charge for purely academic use)
Elamin MB, Flynn DN, Bassler D, et al. Choice of data extraction tools for systematic reviews depends on resources and review complexity. J Clin Epidemiol. 2009; 62(5):506-10. PMID: 19348977
Systematic Review Data Repository Effective Health Care Program, AHRQ