### What is a Systematic Review?
A systematic review is a type of literature review that answers a specific research question
A systematic review involves explicit methods to:
- Perform a comprehensive literature search
- Complete a critical appraisal of the individual studies gathered
- Combine the valid studies using appropriate statistical techniques
Systematic reviews are considered one of the best sources of evidence on a given topic.
### SPICE Model
- Setting
- Perspective
- Intervention
- Comparison
- Evaluation
# Software/Apps
| |Website: | Function: |
|----------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|Rayyan QCRI|`https://rayyan.qcri.org/` |Web application to help systematic review |
|Paperpile |`https://paperpile.com/` |Web application to help with reference management |
|Airtable|`https://airtable.com/` |Web application to help with database management
## UML diagram - Mermaid
Source: [Mermaid](https://mermaidjs.github.io/).
For this systematic review procedure, the diagram is presented below:
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
Paperpile ->> Rayyan QCRI: raw data
Rayyan QCRI ->>Airtable: systematic review procedure
Airtable ->>OSF: data analysis & export
Note right of Paperpile: Preparation of<br/>literature review in <br/>csv. & ris. format,<br/> then exporting it to <br/> Rayyan QCRI.
Note right of Rayyan QCRI: Systematic review<br/>using Rayyan QCRI,<br/>then exporting the<br/>results to the Airtable
Note right of Airtable: Systematic review<br/>after analysis is<br/>uploaded to thr<br/>OSF system
Note left of Paperpile: Source of data:<br/>online databases,<br/>web mining,<br/>sources from <br/> Scitrus alerts,<br/>UJ & UH library<br/> databases.
```
![Diagram 1][1]
[1]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8sQ1fct-KLm4Q66H0qKTv4_vjvwqOjC/preview
