Your research question and PECO statement; this will inform your literature search. The PECO statement defines eligibility criteria for the studies you want to include or exclude.
Keyword string and literature search – document the number of hits; conduct citation searches also
Prepare a repository of eligible studies – these are the ones you analyse for your systematic review
Prepare a data extraction template in Excel – this structures the data you want to get out of your papers; every eligible study has to be listed here
Extract the data
Begin writing the systematic review
