Systematic or Scoping Review Search Request

This service is available to Washington University School of Medicine faculty, staff and students. If you are from the Brown School, please contact the Brown School Library for the appropriate systematic review help.

Please fill out the fields below to request a comprehensive search from a Becker librarian. The form is most useful for systematic or scoping reviews, but can be used for other types of reviews that need comprehensive searches. For a less-comprehensive search, please see the AskBecker Help Request.

Questions about completing the search request form? This brief video explains each part of the process. You can also request assistance by emailing askbecker@wustl.edu.

All questions with an asterisk (*) are required

Requester's Contact Information

Name*

First Last

Email Address*

Other members of your project team. Please include PIs, researchers or anyone else that is working with you on the review project (list names and email addresses):

Review Type

Which kind of review are you conducting?*

If you are not sure, the librarian assigned to your project can help with this, or visit our Review Types Subject Guide.

Systematic Review
Scoping Review
Other
Not Sure

Research Question Information

Research Question (1-2 sentence summary)*

Research Question in PICO or PCC Framework (if appropriate)

The PICO framework (Population/Patient, Intervention, Comparison Intervention, Outcome) is helpful to identify main concepts in a systematic review question. The PCC framework (Population, Concepts, Context) is recommended for a scoping review question.

Inclusion Criteria

Criteria for studies that will be included in your analysis.

Exclusion Criteria

Criteria for studies that will be excluded from your analysis.

Do you plan to register your protocol?

e.g. PROSPERO, Open Science Framework

Yes
No

Benchmark Articles

Benchmark articles are articles that meet your inclusion criteria and will likely be included in your analysis. (3 Minimum)

Article Citation 1:*

Article Citation 2:*

Article Citation 3:*

Additional Citations (optional)

Databases

Becker librarians typically search at least three databases for reviews that require a comprehensive search. Are there any databases you prefer for the search?

Leave blank if you prefer the librarian’s recommendation or would like to discuss.

Project Information

It may take a librarian up to 8 weeks to complete the necessary searches based on the complexity of the search and prior project commitments. What is your approximate timeline/deadline for completion of the review?*

Which journal(s) are you considering to submit your manuscript for publication?

Are you interested in using Covidence for the screening stage of the review?*

Yes
No
Unsure

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Additional Comments

Authorship

Please note that the contributions made by your project librarian to your systematic or scoping review project typically meet the requirements of authorship as stated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Please discuss with your project librarian if you would rather not include them as a co-author.

Name

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.