The workshop will cover what is needed to plan your systematic review (or other evidence synthesis review) and create a review protocol that can be used to guide you through the review process. This is a hands-on session where attendees will work on activities throughout, in order to engage with the content and learn the related skills.

Topics to be covered in this session:

• Defining your question
• Creating your protocol
• Picking databases
• Developing inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Pre-scan of the literature and identifying seed papers
• Analyzing seed papers
• Keywords and subject headings

This workshop is the first workshop of a three-part series of workshops on systematic reviews/knowledge synthesis. You are not required to take all three workshops in the series; you may sign up for only those that interest you.

Workshop 2: Developing your data collection strategy. March 17^th 9:30 am - 12 pm.

Workshop 3: The next steps: Translating, tracking, reporting and study selection. March 24^th 9:30 am – 12 pm.