Some suggested tools -- either available through IU or for free -- are listed below. If you have a suggestion, please reach out to Thea Atwood (tpatwood@iu.edu)
From the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthare. Translates a query from a PubMed or Ovid Medline search into a search string for a variety of other databases.
Accessible to students, faculty, and staff at all IU campuses. Covidence is a web-based systematic review management software, and can help you conduct and synthesize your systematic reviews. Note: IUPUI is the main 'holder' of this license. All IU campuses can use this resource. You can use these step-by-step instructions from IUPUI to sign up. If you have issues registering with the IU institutional license, feel free to reach out to support@covidence.org
Systematic reviews of studies of healthcare interventions effects often include non-randomized studies. AMSTAR is a popular instrument for critically appraising ONLY systematic reviews of randomized controlled clinical trials
Version 2 of the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized trials (RoB 2) is the recommended tool to assess the risk of bias in randomized trials included in Cochrane Reviews. RoB 2 is structured into a fixed set of domains of bias, focusing on different aspects of trial design, conduct, and reporting.
The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) is a systematic approach to rating the certainty of evidence in systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses.