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OLD_Allied Health Resources: Standards, Guides, Tutorials

An online reference portal designed to provide information to faculty, researchers and students in the College of Allied Health Sciences.

Standards

IOM: Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Finding What Works in Health Care. Standards for Systematic ReviewsMarch 2011.

MECIR: Higgins JPT, Lasserson T, Chandler J, Tovey D, Churchill R. Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention ReviewsCochrane: London, 2016. v.1.04 updated Oct 2017. 

MOOSE: Stroup DF, Berlin JA, Morton SC, Olkin I, Williamson GD, Rennie D, et al. Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology: A Proposal for Reporting. JAMA. 2000 Apr 19;283(15):2008–12. doi: 10.1001/jama.283.15.2008

PRISMA: Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG, The PRISMA Group (2009). Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. PLoS Med 6(7): e1000097. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed1000097 

Agencies That Advance the Knowledge and Use of Evidence Based Research

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

American Dental Association

Campbell Collaboration (social and behavioral sciences)

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)

Cochrane Collaboration (medicine)

EPPI (social sciences)

JBI - (formerly Joanna Briggs Institute)

Health and Medicine Division. National Academies of Science Engineering Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine)

What Works Clearinghouse (Institute of Education Science)

Handbooks and Manuals 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Methods Guide for Effectiveness and Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2008 (updated continuously). (AHRQ Methods for Effective Health Care).

Aromataris E, Munn Z (Editors). Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewer's Manual. The Joanna Briggs Institute, 2017. 

Higgins JPT, Green S (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011.

Steering Group. The Campbell Collaboration. Campbell Collaboration Systematic Reviews: Policies and Guidelines. Nov. 2017

PRESS – Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Explanation and Elaboration (PRESS E&E). Ottawa: CADTH; 2016 Jan.

What Works Clearinghouse Standards Handbook, ver.4.0. Oct 2017.