Checklist Quality In-Depth Searching for Systematic Reviews

2012-05-21 THIS CEC IS FULL

Provides a checklist of what to look for when searching the literature for evidence so that participants can either improve their searching skills or conduct quality checks on outsourced searching. Was the search strategy sufficiently sensitive and comprehensive? Have the most relevant databases been searched? How much is enough and when is too much too much? This course is not meant to teach how to search but rather to access the quality of the proposed searching strategy either by the researcher or when outsourced to other parties. Course is built upon case studies of proposed search strategies and how the class participants would improve the proposed search strategies.