cloudwide851/latotex/systematic-review

Systematic Review

Review workflow

1. Define the review question and eligibility criteria before interpreting search results.
2. Record databases, exact queries, dates, filters, deduplication rules, and screening stages.
3. Keep inclusion and exclusion decisions traceable to stable paper identifiers.
4. Extract study design, sample, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome, effect estimate, uncertainty, and limitations.
5. Assess heterogeneity and risk of bias before combining results. Do not pool incompatible outcomes or designs.

Output contract

• Distinguish protocol decisions, observed evidence, reviewer judgment, and unresolved questions.
• Report the search and screening counts needed for a PRISMA-style flow.
• State whether conclusions rely on metadata, abstracts, or full text.
• Treat publication bias, missing studies, conflicts of interest, and selective reporting as explicit limitations.
• Never convert absence of evidence into evidence of no effect.