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Please go to Our evidence libraries page for this information.
Please go to the Evidence alerts page for this information.
Please go to our Evidence alerts page for this information.
Please use this email address to contact the SRI team: [email protected]
The starting point of any review is to define the eligibility criteria for the review. For effectiveness reviews, this would be done using the PICO criteria format, where P = the participants; I and C = the intervention and any comparators and O = the outcomes of interest. For other types of reviews, the format is different and these formats are provided within the description of the review type in the Glossary section.
We would suggest speaking to a university or hospital librarian in the first instance and getting their advice. There are many online resources to help, including Chapter 4 of the The Cochrane Handbook and the University of Cambridge’s Library Guide to Systematic Reviews.
The Transfusion Evidence Library contains the majority of published systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials in transfusion medicine and is a good starting point for any search in the field of transfusion medicine. We also always search CENTRAL (The Cochrane Library), PubMed / MEDLINE and Embase, plus the ongoing trial databases ClinicalTrials.gov and the WHO International Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) for all our systematic reviews. Other more subject-specific databases to search include CINAHL, EconLit, LILACS, MIDIRS and PsycInfo.