Systematic Reviews

Advice from Professor Steve Turner, Consultant Paediatrician, University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian

Prof Turner’s tips:

1. ​Get the research question right

2. Get the search strategy right (find a few eligible papers and look for the key words).

3. on and do the work before time slips past and you have to repeat the search strategy

​Systematic Reviews published by Prof Turner with medical students

• A systematic review of maternal smoking during pregnancy and fetal measurements with meta-analysis

• A systematic review of associations between environmental exposures and development of asthma in children aged up to 9 years

• Fetal ultrasound measurements and associations with postnatal outcomes in infancy and childhood: a systematic review of an emerging literature

• The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in children: a systematic review of the literature.