title: Conducting systematic reviews of intervention questions II: Relevance screening, data extraction, assessing risk of bias, presenting the results and interpreting the findings.
abstract: This is the fifth in a series of six articles describing systematic reviews in animal agriculture and veterinary medicine. The previous articles in this series overviewed the development of a review protocol and the initial steps in conducting a systematic review: identification of a structured question to be answered and conducting a comprehensive literature search to find potentially relevant original research to address the review question. This article describes relevance screening of literature identified in the search to determine which of the original research articles are relevant to the review question, data extraction from primary research studies, the use of standardized procedures to assess the risk of bias in the relevant research studies, presenting the results of the body of research identified and interpreting these results.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada; Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sargeant
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D003625:Data Collection; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D012107:Research Design; D012196:Review Literature as Topic; D015983:Selection Bias; D014730:Veterinary Medicine
keywords: Systematic review; data extraction; intervention; quality assessment; relevance screening; veterinary