We offer an advisory service for Columbia University faculty and staff conducting systematic reviews. The systematic review may be intended for journal publication, HTA report, guideline, internal report to inform a research project, grant application, or patient care.
The specific services are outlined below and you may opt to use as few or as many parts of the service as needed.
| Service | Included |
| Guidance with systematic review development processes | Referral to relevant handbooks and guidance documents |
| Referral to relevant reporting standards | |
| Guidance on timelines, skills and competencies required to complete a systematic review | |
| Protocol development | Instructions on where to find existing protocols |
| Identification of example protocols | |
| Identification of existing systematic reviews on same topic (if any) | |
| Feedback on initial protocol draft | |
| Question formulation | Feedback on framing of research questions |
| Search strategy | Translation of research question into draft search strategy |
| Advice on relevant electronic databases and sources to search | |
| Choice of software programs | Advice on choosing programs used in the different processes of systematic review development: manuscript template, organizing bibliographic citations, study screening, data extraction, data analysis |
| Documentation and search methods reporting | Guidance on Documentation of search strategies |