- 1What kind of review are you doing?PubMed alone indexes 36 million citations, and that is only the indexed English-language part. Systematic, scoping, narrative, and bibliometric reviews as four different questions you can ask of a literature.5 min
- 2Start with what someone already synthesizedCochrane, Campbell, and WHO guidelines are places the work has already been done. The evidence hierarchy, and the qualification that matters: the best evidence depends on the question, and a poorly conducted trial does not beat a rigorous case-control study.5 min
- 3Emerging AI tools, and being wary of fake scienceAI discovery tools and predatory journals are the same failure wearing different clothes: something that looks like a paper and is not. What Elicit, Consensus, and Scite are good for, what hallucinated citations cost, and how to spot a predatory journal.5 min
- 4How to conduct a systematic review, step by stepThe pivot from enough to everything, because the studies you miss are systematically different from the ones you find easily. Step 0 through Step 10 in one pass: a librarian as the first hire, PICO, controlled vocabulary, Boolean logic, screening, appraisal, and the PRISMA flow diagram.13 min
- 5A Cochrane review, start to finishOne published review walked through as the ten steps actually executed: drugs for preventing malaria in pregnancy, from 181 records down to 17 trials covering 14,481 women across eight countries and five decades.8 min