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Presented at CRC course held at King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh on 28 January 2020 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard), Member of the Institutional Review Board, King Fahad Medical City
DEFINITION
• Review several articles
• Critique the articles
• Summarize or synthesize the articles in a qualitative way
PROCESS OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
• Define the research question
• Define databases (e.g. PubMed) from which articles will be selected
• Define criteria of selecting articles for review
• Assess the quality of each article mainly the methods
• Combine the data from various articles in a previously defined systematic method
• Present and interpret data summary results as a paper
STRENGTHS OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
• Provide a summary view for a reader who has no time to read many articles
• Provide a synthesis of diverse and sometimes contradictory articles
WEAKNESSES OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
• Important articles may be missed during the search
• Misses unpublished material
• The review is subjective and may be biased
• Maybe outdated
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