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systematic and scoping reviews

screen your results

remember to consider inclusion and exclusion criteria when screening your results.

inclusion criteria: everything a study must have in order to be included.

exclusion criteria: factors that would make a study ineligible to be included.

  • examine titles/abstracts
  • examine full text and check for eligibility criteria
  • screen your results by using a tool like rayyan or covidence

review your results

review your results

  • review your results and select your articles.
  • manage your citations by using a tool like zotero.
  • de-duplicate your results.

review tools

prisma flow diagram generator is a graphical representation of the flow of citations reviewed in the course of a systematic review.

reference managers