Systematic Reviews Service

Software

PIECES a spreadsheet designed to help you document and record methods of the review for reporting, especially useful for PRISMA flowchart. 

Overall systematic review software

• colandr: Free software; especially helpful in sorting citations
• EPPI-Reviewer: fee
• RevMan: from Cochrane Collaboration, free for academic use, but support is only for registered Cochrane authors
• SRDR (AHRQ): Systematic Review Database Repository from Agency of Healthcare Research & Quality

Meta analysis

• MetaLight: EPPI Centre, free
• CMA (Comprehensive meta analysis): description
• MAStARI (Meta Analysis of Statistics Assessment and Review Instrument): Joanna Briggs Institute
• Mix 2.0: Excel add on for meta analysis
• EROS software: cost involved
• Work learning research effect size calculator
• Practical meta analysis effect size calculator (Campbell Collaboration)

Qualitative software

• ATLAS
• Ethnograph
• HyperRESEARCH
• Joanna Briggs Institute
  • NOTARI (Narrative, Opinion, and Text Assessment and Review Instrument)
  • QARI (qualitative assessment and review instrument)
• Nvivo

Critical Appraisal Checklists

Systematic review appraisal

• ROBIS: Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews
• AMSTAR: Shea et al. Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews

General checklist

• Kmet, L. M., Lee, R. C., Cook, L. S., & Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. (2004). Standard quality assessment criteria for evaluating primary research papers from a variety of fields. Edmonton, Alta: Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.

Education

• Koufogiannakis, Denise and Booth, Andrew and Brettle, Alison.  ReLIANT: Reader’s guide to the Literature on Interventions Addressing the Need for education and Training., 2006