Systematic Reviews

Our CTSI Systematic Review Core (SR Core) and ULibraries Evidence Review Team provides collaborations with researchers engaging in systematic, scoping, and other evidence synthesis reviews. We tailor our assistance to meet the needs of the review team to develop a high-quality manuscript following sound methodology detailed in an a priori protocol.

Request collaboration:

Please Note:  Our Evidence Review - SR Core Team is at capacity. New requests may take 3 - 6 weeks to activate.  We activate projects in our queue in the order received. 

Submit a request for collaboration for our services via either portal listed below. (Select one portal, and submit your request.to our team. Both portals deliver the same collaboration.)   Your project will be added to our queue for email follow-up to schedule a consult.

• CTSI Systematic Review Core  - select Request TRIAD Services, 

or 

• Evidence Review Services request form (ULibraries)

Librarians are included as authors on systematic review publications based on their contributions to the review, such as:

• Developing the a priori protocol
• Designing and conducting literature searches
• Documenting and reporting  search methods
• Writing the methods section of the protocol and the paper

These constitute a major scholarly contribution to the evidence review.

We adhere to authorship criteria from the  a) International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) author roles and contributions and b) University of Utah Regulations: Policy 7-020: Determining Authorship in Scholarly or Scientific Publications. 

References:

Librarian co-authors correlated with higher quality reported search strategies in general internal medicine systematic reviews. Rethlefsen ML, Farrell AM, Osterhaus Trzasko LC, Brigham TJ. J Clin Epidemiol. Jun 2015;68(6):617-26. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.11.025  PubMed

Engaging Medical Librarians to Improve the Quality of Review Articles. Rethlefsen ML, Murad MH, Livingston EH. JAMA. 2014 Sep 10;312(10):999-1000. PubMed PMID: 25203078

Librarian involvement in systematic reviews was associated with higher quality of reported search methods: a cross-sectional survey. Pawliuk C, Cheng S, Zheng A, Siden HH.  J Clin Epidemiol. Feb 2024;166:111237. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.111237. PubMed

The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. Ioannidis, J. P. (2016).  Milbank Quarterly, 94(3), 485-514. PubMed PMID: 27620683