Evidence Synthesis
What is Evidence Synthesis?
Systematic, scoping, and rapid reviews are all forms of evidence synthesis. Researchers undertaking these types of projects aim to find and analyze all the relevant information related to their research question. In many disciplines, evidence syntheses are used to build-up the evidence base and provide the basis for documents such as practice guidelines. For this reason, it is very important that the methodology is followed. Poor quality systematic reviews do get published (unfortunately) but this then leads to a degradation of the overall evidence base and potentially to inaccurate practice recommendations
An overview of key features and issues in evidence synthesis methodologies
Librarians provide three levels of support for evidence synthesis methods: education, consultation, and collaboration (with co-authorship)
A curated collection of resources to help researchers do evidence synthesis projects