Veterinary Medicine
Systematic & Other Reviews in Veterinary Medicine
This section lists resources for people interested in undertaking a systematic, scoping, or other review in Veterinary Medicine. Because we have other guides for systematic reviews, this page directs you to those, and only lists supplementary information and resources specific to veterinary medicine here.
Before you begin, it is worth considering whether a systematic review is really a good method for your purposes, or whether a narrative review would be more appropriate.
Please contact the Vet Med librarian if you would like a consultation around literature searching for your systematic review.
- Library Guide: Systematic Reviews in the Health SciencesOur main Health Sciences library guide for systematic and related reviews.
Veterinary-specific literature on systematic and scoping reviews
O’Connor A, Sargeant J. Research synthesis in veterinary science: Narrative reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. The Veterinary Journal 2015;206:261–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2015.08.025.
Sargeant JM, O’Connor AM. Scoping Reviews, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-Analysis: Applications in Veterinary Medicine. Front Vet Sci 2020;7:11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00011.
Sargeant JM, O’Connor AM. Introduction to Systematic Reviews in Animal Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. Zoonoses and Public Health 2014;61:3–9. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12128
Haddaway NR, Watson MJ. On the benefits of systematic reviews for wildlife parasitology. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 2016;5:184–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2016.05.002.
Training and guidance materials (non-UofC):
- Systematic Review of Animal Studies videosFrom Collaborative Approach to Meta Analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies (CAMARADES). Four videos cover introduction to reviews of animal studies; steps of a systematic review; data extraction and meta-analysis; and internal validity and risk of bias in preclinical studies.
- CAMARADES Preclinical Systematic Review WikiA good handbook to conducting systematic reviews of preclinical studies.
- Collaboration for Environmental Evidence - Resources for AuthorsCEE seeks to promote and deliver evidence syntheses on issues of greatest concern to environmental policy and practice. Their resources include guidelines and tools for conducting evidence syntheses on environmental topics, and may be useful to veterinary researchers whose work has an environmental focus.
- Good review practice: a researcher guide to systematic review methodology in the sciences of food and healthThis guide, produced by the IFIS Food and Health Information organization, is a comprehensive resource for systematic reviews in food and health.
- Scoping Reviews - JBIThough not veterinary-specific, JBI's guidance on scoping reviews is useful to researchers in many disciplines.
- MEDLINE - the largest index to the medical literature. Coverage includes some but not all veterinary journals. Note that this is the same content as PubMed; it is not necessary to search both. MEDLINE on the Ovid platform allows for construction of a more structured search.
- Embase - probably only necessary to search if the research question has a human health component - i.e. zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance
- CAB Abstracts - the major index to the agricultural and animal science literature. Covers much of the veterinary literature that is not covered in MEDLINE.
- BIOSIS Previews: the major index to the life sciences literature. Search if you suspect your literature will encompass wildlife/zoology.
- Web of Science Core Collection: multi-disciplinary literature database. Useful to supplement your other database searches, and for identifying conference proceedings.
These slides are from a 3-session workshop on knowledge synthesis in veterinary medicine, delivered in spring 2022.
- Knowledge Synthesis Workshop for Veterinary Research #1: Setting Yourself Up for SuccessThe first in a series of 3 workshops (Spring 2022)
- Knowledge Synthesis Workshop for Veterinary Research #2: Developing Your Data Collection StrategyThe second in a 3-workshop series delivered in Spring 2022
- Knowledge Synthesis Workshop for Veterinary Research #3: Translating, Tracking, Reporting and Study SelectionThe third in a series of 3 workshops (spring 2022)
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