This guide is designed to help you with a literature review. It takes you through the five main steps you need to take in order to find relevant articles and be able to demonstrate a thorough search:
- Forming your search strategy - helps you develop your question using frameworks such as PICO and PEO, and outlines how we develop keywords to use in searching.
- Database Searching - takes you through the process of searching in a database using mySearch as an example, with help for searching in specific databases as well.
- Other ways to search - you can also find articles using other means such as Google Scholar, citation searching or using reference lists.
- Evaluating your results - this explains how you work to develop your search and work through the results applying your inclusion and exclusion criteria.
- PRISMA - follow the steps outlined here to build your PRISMA flow chart and record the details of your findings.
At the bottom of each page there is a reminder of the steps you should complete for this stage of your literature searching.
