General Resources
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
EPPI Centre Publications on Systematic Review/Evidence Synthesis Methodology
Health Evidence™‘s Quality Assessment Tool for Systematic Reviews designed for use in public health.
SYstematic Review Center for Laboratory animal Experimentation (SYRCLE) Tools and Guidelines provides guidance on how to design, plan and conduct your own systematic reviews (and meta-analysis) of animal studies.
Synthesis Registration
PROSPERO is an international prospective register of systematic reviews
Quality Appraisal and Reporting of Reviews Tools
AMSTAR measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews
MECIR (Cochrane) and MEC2IR (Campbell Collaboration) standards for the conduct and reporting of reviews
PRISMA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
RAMESES reporting standards for realist synthesis and meta narrative reviews
ROBIS tool for assessing the risk of bias in systematic reviews
ROSES reporting standards for systematic evidence syntheses
GRADE Working Group has developed a common, sensible and transparent approach to grading quality (or certainty) of evidence and strength of recommendations.
Software Tools
Covidence is a screening and data extraction tool for streamlining the production of standard intervention reviews.
EPPI-Reviewer is web application that enables management of the entire lifecycle of a review in a single location by enabling users to be able to upload studies for screening, complete keywording and data extractions and analyse the results over the internet.
Rayyan QCRI software assists with review screeening
RevMan assists in the preparation of protocols and full reviews, including text, characteristics of studies, comparison tables, and study data. It can perform meta-analysis of the data entered, and present the results graphically.
If your organisation has resources or tools to share about synthesis methods, please contact us at esi@evidencesynthesis.org.
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