PUBHLTH 494CI Public Health Sciences Capstone
Tools
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) website"PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating randomized trials, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews of other types of research, particularly evaluations of interventions."
- PRISMA Flow Diagram GeneratorFree tool that will generate a PRISMA flow diagram from a CSV file (sample CSV template provided)Please cite as:
Haddaway, N. R., Page, M. J., Pritchard, C. C., & McGuinness, L. A. (2022). PRISMA2020: An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020-compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis Campbell Systematic Reviews, 18, e1230. https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1230 - Rayyan"Rayyan is a 100% FREE web application to help systematic review authors perform their job in a quick, easy and enjoyable fashion. Authors create systematic reviews, collaborate on them, maintain them over time and get suggestions for article inclusion."
Rayyan
- Rayyan"Rayyan is a 100% FREE web application to help systematic review authors perform their job in a quick, easy and enjoyable fashion. Authors create systematic reviews, collaborate on them, maintain them over time and get suggestions for article inclusion."
UMass Amherst now has an Enterprise Membership to Rayyan!
This gives us access to premium features, including
- PICO highlights & filters
- PRISMA flow diagram generator
- Mobile App (unlimited use)
- Auto-resolver
- Training for students & for experts
- Highest tier of support
New users need to sign up for an account using their umass.edu email and then will automatically get an Enterprise account with all the associated benefits.
Users will then use the "Sign in with Enterprise ID" option on the Sign In page to get to their account.
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS WITH SCREENSHOTS TO COME!
Existing account holders that signed up with their umass.edu email address will automatically be upgraded in early September.
If you want to do it before then (or if you signed up using a non-UMass email account):
- Make sure that you are using your umass.edu email address for your personal account. (Click the icon next to Settings at the top right then on your title & name to get to account details, where you should be able to update your email.)
- Sign out of your Rayyan account.
- On the Sign In screen, instead of entering your Email and Password, go down to the “Sign in with Enterprise ID” button.
- Enter your UMass email.
- That should be it! You should see your existing reviews and see Enterprise next to rayyan on the title bar across the top and the icon on the far right next to Settings should be purple and when you click it, show Enterprise under your name.
Here's a PDF of the slide deck from our Getting Started with Rayyan workshop. We plan to record the November workshop and will embed that recording here, too.
Evaluating Studies
- Critical Appraisal Tools from JBIJoanna Briggs Institute at the University of Adelaide provides these checklists to help evaluate different types of publications that could be included in a review.
- Study Quality Assessment Toolsfrom the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) Checklists"Critical Appraisal skills enable you to systematically assess the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) has over 28 years of significant and unrivalled expertise in the delivery of training to healthcare professionals."
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Grades"For 40 years, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF or Task Force) has improved the health of people nationwide by making evidence-based recommendations on preventive services. Clinicians, healthcare professionals, patients, families, and communities all look to the Task Force to help them know what works and what doesn’t in preventive care."
Exporting Large Results Sets to Citation Managers
Here is my handout with instructions on how to export large results sets to be able to import into Citation Managers and remove duplicate items. I also made a video showing how to export results from PubMed, EBSCOhost databases, Web of Science, and ProQuest database.
NOTE: This procedure is also the one to follow to get files with results to upload to Rayyan for screening articles.
- Exporting Large Result Sets to Citation Managers and Removing DuplicatesGeneral instructions for getting a large number of results from databases (including PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Web of Science, and ERIC) into citation managers, and links to how to remove duplicates in Zotero and Mendeley
Exporting Large Results Sets to Excel
Here is my handout with instructions on how to export large results sets to be able to import into Excel and remove duplicate items. I also made a video showing how to export results from PubMed, EBSCOhost databases, Web of Science, and ProQuest database.
(NOTE: I am still working on editing the CC transcript for this video!)
- Exporting Large Result Sets to Excel and Removing DuplicatesInstructions for getting a large number of results from databases (including PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Web of Science, and ERIC) into Excel, and how to remove dupcliates.
Ellen's Tips for Doing Comprehensive Literature Searches
In this video, I share tips on methodology, performing searches (including a sample search), documenting searches, and mention a few tools that might be helpful. The document underneath covers the same content in written form.
Guides from Other Libraries
- Is a Systematic/Scoping Review Right for You? (Western University)Has chart comparing Systematic & Scoping reviews and offers a high-level timeline for performing one of these reviews.
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