Systematic Reviews Health Prof Interventions I: Writing a Protocol

(2 Credits)

Students explore how to develop a protocol for a systematic review of an intervention for their health profession. Topics covered include formulating questions, identifying populations, intervention/comparisons, and outcome measures with consideration of health inequities in underrepresented populations, planning search strategies, using multiple databases, collecting records, conducting screenings and data extractions, evaluating risk of bias, statistical review, and introduction to meta-analysis and GRADE. Final project is a complete protocol for a full review.