RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR REVIEW PAPERS Jackie Stapleton

Writing review papers at UW… Coursework: Student assignments Graduate student thesis Research support Grant proposals Published articles Faculty, graduate students, senior undergrads, researchers Information Desk staff and librarians support these activities Typically our role is to educate the student on how to conduct the literature themselves This is where I have increased the level of my support I conduct the search myself and provide the results to the researcher.

Typical review types in health/science Narrative / traditional review Scoping review Systematic review

Systematic Review Process Research question Explore what others have done Write protocol Conduct searches Develop forms Screen search results Retrieve articles Inclusion/exclusion Check references Assess quality Extract dataAnalyze data Write systematic review Adapted from a slide by Ellen Crumley.

My support: Varies with each project but may consist of: Consultation and interviews with researcher(s) Build search strategies in multiple databases Create group Refworks account to manage results and prepare for screening of abstracts Provide search documentation Write methods section for article submission

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