… as a “conventional literature review,” 53 “scoping review,” 54 or “narrative review.” In the …
used around systematic reviews, 56 in part because historically the term “systematic review” …

… While it has many of the characteristics of a literature review, adhering to the general principle
of summarizing the knowledge from a body of literature, a systematic review differs in that …

… literature reviews need to be systematic reviews. The systematic review is an ultimate version
of literature review … In this book we cover many types of literature review that may be suited …

… in potentially performing systematic reviews in the future. As systematic reviews become more
… will ultimately be the format expected for the reviews and current concepts in our journals. …

… are difficult to keep up to date, but failure to do so leads to a decay in review currency, … to
systematic review updating termed “Living systematic review” (LSR): systematic reviews that are …

… The PRISMA guidelines recommend open registration of all systematic reviews. Given
the recent proliferation of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (Figure 2), this reduces the …

… the process of a systematic review based on a series of … review, and how to identify salient
patterns at various levels of granularity. We also aim to set an example of a systematic review …

… This review assesses the effects of processes undertaken as part of editorial peer … The
results of our systematic review are consistent with those of an earlier descriptive review. …

… the potentially relevant literature for a systematic review, … these two tasks because systematic
reviews are retrospective … to judge the applicability of the review to clinical practice and to …

… to choose between a systematic review or scoping review approach when synthesising …
scoping reviews and systematic reviews and to provide guidance for when a scoping review …