====== Systematic Review Guide ======

This guide provides instructions and tips on best practices for conducting systematic reviews. The information presented in this guide applies to reviews conducted with or without Nested Knowledge.


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===== 1. What Are Systematic Reviews? =====

A [[:wiki:guide:overview|systematic review]] is a summary of medical literature related to a particular research question.

===== 2. Planning a Review =====

You will want to carefully [[:wiki:guide:plan|plan your systematic review]]. Mainly, is this review [[wiki:guide:plan:quicksearch|feasible]] to complete? Should you [[wiki:guide:plan:protocol|register]] your protocol?

===== 3. Conduct Review =====

Use the Nested Knowledge software to conduct a systematic review or use external methods.

===== 4. Quality Control =====

[[:wiki:guide:qc|Quality control]] is necessary to ensure that your extracted data are accurate and your included studies are all high quality. 

===== 5. Find a Journal =====

When thinking about writing the manuscript, you must find a [[:wiki:guide:find|target journal]] that is likely to accept your manuscript.

===== 6. Write the Manuscript =====

Begin writing up your introduction, abstract, methods, results, and discussion sections of the [[:wiki:guide:write|manuscript]].

===== 7. Format Manuscript =====

All journals have [[:wiki:guide:submit:format|formatting requirements]] before you can submit your materials for possible publication.

===== 8. Submit Manuscript =====

The final step in conducting a systematic review is to [[:wiki:guide:submit|]] your completed and QC'ed manuscript to the target journal.