Before you start your Systematic Review, consider what are your aims of the research? What are you trying to achieve? When you have a starting pointing it can help guide to create the story of your SR and why is the SR important.
- What is your research question?
- What is the problem you are addressing?
- Is there a need for an answer?
- Most importantly - has an SR already been done and published before? If so, it may need an update.
- How to tell if there is already an existing SR? Search the existing literature, including in Cochrane Library to see if your topic has already been addressed in an existing work of scholarly literature. You can do this by limiting to type of publication or searching by title and include "systematic review".
- Assemble your team based on expertise and the needs of the research or area of study. The team should help craft the research question. It is best to frame a clinical research question in the form of a PICO(T) question.
