Resources for Systematic Reviews

Screenshot of medical search terms

Image courtesy of Mark MacEachern under a CC BY 2.0 license.

Published:
March 14, 2012
Revised:
June 5, 2015

The Taubman Health Sciences Library partners with members of the University of Michigan health sciences community to provide extensive literature search support for systematic review and clinical practice guideline projects.

 

About the Creators

Whitney Townsend is a Liaison Librarian at the Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan.  She supports the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Division of Rheumatology, and the Cardiovascular Center.  Whitney currently serves as the coordinator of the Health Sciences Executive Research Services.

Mark MacEachern is a Liaison Librarian at the Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan.  He supports the College of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry, Department of Anesthesiology, Department of Radiology, and Department of Surgery.  As a liaison, Mark is heavily involved in the evidence-based practice components of the medical, dental, and pharmacy curricula.  Mark received his M.L.I.S. degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Patricia Anderson is Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library.  She works with social, semantic, and emerging technologies, identifying trends relevant to the educational, research, clinical and creative endeavors of the University of Michigan, primarily but not exclusively in the five schools associated with the health sciences (dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health).

Screenshot of medical search terms

Image courtesy of Mark MacEachern under a CC BY 2.0 license.

Published:
March 14, 2012
Revised:
June 5, 2015

Lectures

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Searching the Literature: Search Techniques & Construction to Identify Studies for a Systematic Review

Mark MacEachern
Whitney Townsend

Systematic Reviews: Context and Methodology

Patricia Anderson

Miscellaneous

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Course/Resource Archive in Institutional Repository (October 2012)

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