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Systematic Reviews Review! Insights from SR workshops!
Midday at the OasisNovember 19, 2014
Pacific Southwest Region
Systematic Review Wordle!
• From the Systematic Review Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts for Librarians, University of Pittsburgh, 2014
Presenters
◦ Michelle Henley, San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF/Barnett Briggs Medical Library
◦ Bethany Myers, Research Informationist, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
◦ Ahlam A. Saleh, Research Librarian, Arizona Health Sciences Library
◦ Kay Deeney, Educational Services Coordinator, NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region
Transition Slide
Pictures from Pittsburgh!
• 3.1.1 Work with a librarian or other information specialist trained in performing systematic reviews to plan the search strategy
• 3.1.3 Use an independent librarian or other information specialist to peer review the search strategy
IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2011. Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
IOM Book: Finding What Works in Health Care
• To reduce bias, multiple databases should be searched
• Creative access to databases◦ Can get some EMBASE from Cochrane◦ Access EMBASE through a pay-as-you-go model
• PubMed search strategy blog • GoPubMed.com a semantic search engine • MedTerm Search Assist crowdsource
terminology
Systematic Review Tips
MedTerm Search Assist
MedTerm Search Results
A librarian is to the literature search
as a statistician is to the meta-analysis!
For Systematic Reviews…
• Peer review of search strategies• Consulting on searching with colleagues• Sharing insights on SR in your institution!
Some Roles for Librarians in the Network!
• MLA Systematic Reviews Special Interest Group
• MLA Research Section Systematic Review Project
• MLA Research Agenda: Appraising the Best Available Evidence
• Several MLA Webinars
MLA SR Resources
• Systematic Review Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts for Librarians, University of Pittsburgh, Falk Library of the Health Sciences
• Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) • MLA Educational Clearinghouse
Information on Workshops
Questions?
Thanks!
• Slides and recording will be at the Midday at the Oasis Archive
◦ http://nnlm.gov/psr/services/webmeeting/archives.html