Webinar: Alison Bethel - Improving systematic review search methods, results and efficacy

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In this webinar Alison would like to share experiences of completing search summary tables and search evaluations within evidence syntheses projects. Search summary tables can help make our search methods and decisions more evidence informed. Once completed, you can discover, for example:

-which searches in which databases retrieved the included articles for your specific project

-which searches in which databases retrieved unique articles

-whether specific types of study were retrieved by searching specific databases

-which supplementary search methods retrieved additional relevant studies/articles

-were there included articles in the databases which our search did not retrieve

Reflecting on search methods at the end of, or even during, an evidence synthesis project is a good idea because it allows us to feed into update searches and future reviews. It can help make our search methods and decisions more evidence based

Speaker:

Alison Bethel is a Senior Research Fellow, Information Science, and currently works across three NIHR funded evidence synthesis groups at the University of Exeter Medical School: PenARC’s Evidence Synthesis Team, the HSDR Evidence Synthesis Centre and ISCA Evidence where she designs and runs systematic literature searches for all types of evidence synthesis projects. Alison is a co-convener for the Campbell Collaboration and is one of the UK’s Council Representatives for EAHIL. Alison also teaches within the UEMS and undertakes information retrieval research projects with her colleagues.