Subject Guides: Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC): Reviews

WHO Handbook for Guideline Development

World Health Organization. (2014). Who handbook for guideline development (2nd ed.). World Health Organization. Retrieved August 25, 2022, from http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/145714/1/9789241548960_eng.pdf. This handbook provides detailed instructions for guideline developers on the following topics: application of high quality methodology for guideline development using systematic search strategies, synthesis and quality assessment of the best available evidence to support the recommendations; appropriate collection and management of experts' declared conflict of interest; expert group composition including content experts, methodologists, target users, policy makers, with gender and geographical balance; instructions for the management of group process to achieve consensus among experts; standards for a transparent decision-making process, taking into consideration potential harms and benefits, end users values and preferences; developing plans for implementing and adapting guidelines; and minimum standards for reporting

Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach The purpose of this article is to clearly describe the differences in indications between scoping reviews and systematic reviews and to provide guidance for when a scoping review is (and is not) appropriate.

Scoping Review Guide A guide developed by the University of South Australia with the assistance and expertise of Dr Micah Peters.
Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework This paper focuses on scoping studies, an approach to reviewing the literature which to date has received little attention in the research methods literature.

Example of a Rapid Review:

PRISMA The NEW Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) website, designed to help authors transparently report why their systematic review was done, what methods they used, and what they found.
The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement, published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why the review was done, what the authors did, and what they found.
PRISMA Search Reporting Extension Checklist The PRISMA extension for searching was published in 2021. The checklist includes 16 reporting items, each of which is detailed with exemplar reporting and rationale.
PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews This document presents the PRISMA-S (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses literature search extension) checklist, and explanation and elaboration.

1. Identify the journals to search.

2. In the search box on the library homepage, choose the JOURNALS tab.

3. Journals search box, type ti: (for title) and enter the journal title.

4. The first results should be the journal title. Click on the title to access the record.

5. Follow the links for online viewing.

6. Browse the volumes / Issues.

Older hard copies are on Level 1 at Serials 616.