Five Steps to Conducting a Systematic Review

By Khalid Khan, Regina Kunz, J. Kleijnen, G. Antes. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2003

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Subfields: General Health Professions, History and Philosophy of Science

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Approaches to interpreting and choosing the best treatments in network meta-analyses (2017, background): “Systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) provide crucial information for determining the effect of interventions in clinical practice [1].”
Joy and Calm: How an Evolutionary Functional Model of Affect Regulation Informs Positive Emotions in Nature (2016, methodology): “A systematic search of the literature (Khan et al. 2003) was used to locate studies for inclusion without any date restrictions.”
Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs (2024, methodology): “Following the standard systematic review protocol from the medical domain (Khan et al., 2003), we analyse the existing work on LLMs evaluation to inspect the issue of indirect data contamination and other evaluation malpractices.”
A systematic review of the impacts and management of introduced deer (family Cervidae) in Australia (2016, methodology): “We reviewed all literature identified during our searches, including literature that did not contain primary studies, use explicit and reproducible methods, or have a minimum acceptable level of design (Khan et al. 2003).”
Conceptualizing Longitudinal Mixed Methods Designs (2015, methodology): “Lukas et al. (2010) let each case determine when and how the quantitative data would be collected consistent with their theoretical model for transforming organizations. Nijland et al. (2011) used longitudinal logs of when participants initiated certain events over the Internet.”
MSˆ2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies (2021, background): “Systematic reviews synthesize knowledge across many studies (Khan et al., 2003), and they are so called for the systematic (and expensive) process of creating a review; each taking 1-2 years to complete (Michelson and Reuter, 2019).”
A step by step guide for conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis with simulation data (2019, background): “Furthermore, despite the increasing guidelines for effectively conducting a systematic review, we found that basic steps often start from framing question, then identifying relevant work which consists of criteria development and search for articles, appraise the quality of included studies, summari”
Synthetic data generation for tabular health records: A systematic review (2022, methodology): “To conduct the systematic review we have defined a six-step methodology, starting from the proposals made by Khan et al [32] and Uman [33].”
The Functions of a Servant Leader (2017, methodology): “The five step procedure proposed by Khan, Kunz, Kleijnen, and Antes [26] was used to conduct a systematic literature review, namely (1) framing the question; (2) identifying relevant publications; (3) assessing study quality; (4) summarising the evidence; and (5) interpreting the finding in a meanin”