Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis Consulting
PRISMA-compliant systematic reviews and meta-analyses — from protocol registration to forest plots and evidence synthesis.
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A systematic review or meta-analysis follows a strict, transparent methodology — PRISMA reporting, structured search strategies, risk-of-bias assessment, and statistical synthesis. Our team supports researchers and clinical teams through the full process, from protocol to publication-ready results.
What's included
- ✓PRISMA-compliant protocol development and PROSPERO registration support
- ✓Systematic search strategy design across databases
- ✓Risk-of-bias and quality assessment (Cochrane, GRADE, JBI tools)
- ✓Meta-analysis, forest plots, and heterogeneity analysis (RevMan, R, CMA)
Who This Service Is For
Who This Service Is For
Researchers, graduate students, and clinical or organizational teams who need a rigorous, reproducible synthesis of existing evidence on a specific question — for a thesis chapter, a journal submission, a grant application, or an internal evidence review.
Problems We Help Solve
Designing a search strategy that's actually reproducible, screening and extracting data consistently across a large set of studies, assessing risk of bias without a systematic method, and deciding whether a meta-analysis is statistically appropriate for the studies found.
What the Process Includes
Protocol development (including PROSPERO registration support), a systematic multi-database search strategy, dual-reviewer screening and data extraction, risk-of-bias assessment with a tool appropriate to the study designs involved, and — where the included studies are similar enough — statistical meta-analysis with forest plots and heterogeneity testing.
Typical Deliverables
A PRISMA-compliant manuscript or thesis chapter, a completed PRISMA flow diagram and checklist, a data extraction spreadsheet, and, where applicable, forest plots and a meta-analysis results summary.
Standards & Methodologies Used
PRISMA 2020 reporting guidelines, Cochrane's RoB 2 or ROBINS-I risk-of-bias tools depending on study design, and GRADE for rating certainty of evidence where relevant.
Ethical Boundaries
We support the review process — search, screening, extraction, quality assessment, and synthesis — but the review question, inclusion decisions where judgment is required, and final conclusions are yours; we don't fabricate included studies, results, or risk-of-bias ratings.
Specialized Topics
Systematic review search strategy support for concepts, databases, controlled vocabulary, Boolean logic, documentation, and reproducibility.
Risk-of-bias assessment support using study-design-appropriate tools such as RoB 2, ROBINS-I, and JBI instruments.
GRADE support for rating certainty of evidence across outcomes and preparing transparent evidence profiles.
Meta-analysis support in R for effect-size preparation, random- and fixed-effect models, heterogeneity, subgroup analysis, meta-regression, and forest plots.
PRISMA 2020 support for systematic review reporting, flow diagrams, checklists, methods transparency, and manuscript review.
PROSPERO protocol support for eligible systematic reviews: review question, eligibility, outcomes, search approach, bias assessment, and synthesis plan.
Network meta-analysis support for multi-treatment evidence networks, assumptions, modelling, inconsistency assessment, ranking, and reporting.
Diagnostic meta-analysis support for sensitivity, specificity, threshold effects, hierarchical models, summary ROC methods, and interpretation.
Scoping review support for question framing, protocol planning, systematic searching, screening, charting, evidence mapping, and transparent reporting.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A systematic review follows a predefined, documented protocol (PRISMA) with reproducible search and screening methods — a literature review is typically narrative and less structured. We support both, but they're built differently.
Yes, we can help prepare and support registration of your systematic review protocol on PROSPERO before you begin screening.
No — a meta-analysis is only appropriate when included studies are statistically comparable. We assess your included studies and advise whether quantitative synthesis is suitable.
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