A systematic review (SR) summarises the results of available carefully designed healthcare studies (controlled trials) and provides a high level of evidence on the effectiveness of healthcare interventions.

In this workshop learn about:

• Hierarchies of evidence
• Planning your SR search
• Subject and keyword searching in Medline (and/or Embase, Ovid Emcare) and the Cochrane Library
• Using MeSH/Emtree, explode, focus 

This is Part 1 of the 3-part series on Systematic Reviews. View and register upcoming workshops for parts 2: Finding Grey Literature and 3: Managing your Results.