The PIECCESS framework provides a series of 8 phases and processes, each with potential scholarly outputs, to follow for the life of a review project:
- Proposal- Determine the feasibility of the review
- Protocol- Develop the methods of the review; consider registering protocol
- Preliminary findings- Prepare report for a conference presentation, a poster, or other venue to share
- Publish paper- Select best journal and submit paper
- Preserve project- Share and preserve the project
- Promote the project- Select stakeholders and promote
- Impact tracking- Collect the impact of the project- such as citations and altmetrics
- Update algorithm- Set the triggering criteria for an update
Each phase requires 8 processes:
- Plan: each phase requires some planning and project management
- Identify- searching and sorting the results
- Evaluate- appraising the studies identified
- Extract- gathering data from selected results
- Combine- combining and visualizing results as appropriate
- Explain- providing the context of the results
- Summarize- pulling everything together from the phase, following standards when available
- Share- publishing or otherwise sharing as appropriate
PIECCESS Framework was summarized from: Foster MJ and Jewell ST (Eds.) (2022) Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses. (Medical Library Association Books Series) Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Dec 2022.