Evidence Synthesis Consult Form

Have you prepared a protocol for your knowledge synthesis project?

Please attach your protocol

Describe your research project in a few words or provide a precise statement of the primary objective. For example: ‘To assess the [outcomes] of [intervention or comparison] for [health or other problem] in [types of people, disease or problem and setting if specified]’. This might be followed by one or more secondary objectives.

Have you searched the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, PROSPERO, or other databases (eg: OSF) to determine if there is already a completed or in-progress review on this topic?

Please provide the DOI of the article(s) or the PMID or: First author. Article title. Journal title. Vol. Issue. Pages. Year.

Have you already found any relevant research articles?

• For each article please provide the DOI of the article or the PMID or: First author. Article title. Journal title. Vol. Issue. Pages. Year.
• If you are searching databases such as Medline (Ovid), Web of Science, PsycInfo(EBSCO), Sociology Collection (Proquest) or IEEE Xplore Digital Library etc.: Please create an account in those databases so you can save your search strategy. Please create the account before your appointment and bring the login information with you.
• Note: You may wish to choose a generic username and password that you can share with your team.

Have you identified or do you have available citation management software (RefWorks, EndNote, etc)?

Have you prepared a protocol for your knowledge synthesis project?

Please attach your protocol

Describe your research project in a few words or provide a precise statement of the primary objective. For example: ‘To assess the [outcomes] of [intervention or comparison] for [health or other problem] in [types of people, disease or problem and setting if specified]’. This might be followed by one or more secondary objectives.

Have you searched the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, PROSPERO, or other databases (eg: OSF) to determine if there is already a completed or in-progress review on this topic?

Please provide the DOI of the article(s) or the PMID or: First author. Article title. Journal title. Vol. Issue. Pages. Year.

Have you already found any relevant research articles?

• For each article please provide the DOI of the article or the PMID or: First author. Article title. Journal title. Vol. Issue. Pages. Year.
• If you are searching databases such as Medline (Ovid), Web of Science, PsycInfo(EBSCO), Sociology Collection (Proquest) or IEEE Xplore Digital Library etc.: Please create an account in those databases so you can save your search strategy. Please create the account before your appointment and bring the login information with you.
• Note: You may wish to choose a generic username and password that you can share with your team.

Have you identified or do you have available citation management software (RefWorks, EndNote, etc)