Systematic reviews: How many articles to review?
Systematic reviews The advice that nobody taught you 👂 If you are about to embark on the world of systematic reviews, you will probably have flooded your mind with information from courses that are not at all practical. This is because nothing can replace better learning how to conduct a systematic review than getting down to business. If you follow the traditional method of analysis, you will have to keep trying and failing with your search algorithm , until you get a number of articles that are feasible for you or your team to analyze . To do this, start by asking yourself an unexplored PICO ( P atient/Population; I ntervention; C omparison; O utcomes) question , and perform a search in one or more databases, using linked terms following the guidelines of boolean logic (AND, OR...) and parentheses. But I've gotten thousands of results!😯 After your boolean search , and after filtering out duplicate publications and articles you missed that do not meet your requirements for...