Sign up

How to Search, Screen, Tag, and Extract for Your Systematic Review

Creating Your Search Terms #

The strongest search terms take into account the PICO format, boolean operators, MeSH terms, and properly enclosed phrases.


You will need to decide which databases you want to search.


Best Practices for Screening #

Tips and tricks on how to screen studies for inclusion or exclusion from your review.


Best Practices for Tagging #

Recommendations on how to properly tag included studies.


Best Practices for Data Extraction #

How to extract data of interest from included studies.


Workflow for conducting a systematic review

The steps involved with conducting a systematic review.

Updated on August 1, 2024
Did this article help?

Have a question?

Send us an email and we’ll get back to you as quickly as we can!